Hoobastank - The Reason

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• HOOBASTANK THE REASON

Free Music Notes for The Reason

Free Music Review: EXCELLENT album
Hit: 5 Stars

I was enjoying my Smile Empty Soul CD (another excellent CD) when I decided to stop in bestbuy for a new CD.

I skipped the Hoobastank album and bought the new Incubus CD instead (Crow left of the Murder). The last incubus album I heard before that was Morning view, and in my opinion Morning View was much better. Its not that I didnt consider Hoobastank, but they had a two Incubus CD special going on. The new Incubus CD, sans a few songs, just lacked energy and good beats to my ears. Also, it felt like Brandon was just doing a little voice managerie for a few song without consideration for meaningful music.
So after telling one of my friends about it, he said I should give the New Hoobastank CD a shot. I really liked the first album, but I already bought two cds that week, but decided to give it a shot anyways. It completely blew me away. I like all the songs off this one, unlike thier debut one where I found a few like "Better" out of place.
This album is just really powerful. Even though I do agree that Doug sounds like Brandon from Incubus, the lyrical style and musical energy is completely different. Brandon's more of a poetic and "artsy" singer, where Hoobastank is more pure emotion, and grungier beats. The energy, flow, and meaning win it for me. This is the first album in a long time where I havent had to press "Next" at a certain song. Everything just blends together in each song. I cant really catagorize this CD. Its like "emotional grunge rock", or something like that. Its probably better that they dont cookie-cut themselves into a genre.

My two fav songs off this one are "Reason" and "What Happened to us".

"Reason" is just a real deep song, but it still carries enough energy that it doesnt feel like a weird out of place mello piano track in a CD. Listen to this song, and Im sure you'll picture someone in your mind that this song pertains too, and maybe even conjure up some emotions. Any song that can change your emotional state is exceptional.

"What happened to us" is about a relationship where things were perfect, and kind of disintegrated into something else. Its kind of a weird mix between longing and anger, but it melds so well. The harsh guitar riffs in the chorus make you feel the anger that something so good got thrown away, and the soft melody throughout the rest of the track really makes you feel like it was something really good.

On the first album, "Crawling in the dark" was a completely different and harder song than most other songs on the CD, and just flowed alot better than any other one on there too. Happens to be my favorite song off the debut too. Id have to say all the songs off "Reason" share this flow, and theres no song that really sticks out from the rest because its so different or out of place, except possibly the last song, "Dissappear". Its not that its bad, but it feels like they slammed the brakes on the CD before the album ends because the tempo just slows downs too much. The only problem I have with this CD is that when you get to the end, it doesnt feel like the end. The flows just too good, and the CD too short. I think we can agree that ~40 minutes of really good music is better than 80 minutes of of annoying noise though.

Hey, this CDs pretty cheap too, so the only way to really know what song really relates to you, or which song you can rock out too, is to buy this CD. If you liked the debut, and strong energy and lyrics matter to you (or even just the energy part), you'll really like this CD.

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