matchbox twenty - Mad Season
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Artist: matchbox twentyEdition: Music CD
Format: Enhanced
CD Release Date: 2000-05-23
Music Label: Atlantic / Wea
Soundtracks:
- Angry
- Black & White People
- Crutch
- Last Beautiful Girl
- If You're Gone
- Mad Season
- Rest Stop
- The Burn
- Bent
- Bed Of Lies
- Leave
- Stop
- You Won't Be Mine
Free Music Notes for Mad Season
Free Music Review: Spectacular
Hit: 5 Stars
There are some albums that you buy, listen to for awhile, and then put away to collect dust on a darkened shelf, only to see the light when you occasionally find them again. Then there are the records that, despite their age, still remain on your playlist, allowing you to sing along with the windows rolled down and drum on your steering wheel. "Mad Season", Matchbox Twenty's 2000 release, is of this latter variety. Eight years on, the album is still fresh and says what it needs to say.
After making a name for themselves with "Yourself or Someone Like You" in the late 1990s, Matchbox Twenty released "Mad Season". Upon listening to the record, there are several differences that are immediately noticable. Most obviously, it is a decidedly angry record. With songs like 'Angry' and the line "I think there's still a piece of my heart on your face" in 'Crutch', it is evident that the band was taking out some aggression on the record.
However, what separates this from other MB20 albums is its complete musicality. Rather than just featuring guitars, piano, and drums, the band has a brass accompaniment throughout many songs. Sounding similar to what Chicago did in the 1970s, this adds a depth of emotion to the record, while still retaining its rock and roll flair.
Without a doubt, this is my favorite Matchbox Twenty record? Why? With heart-wrenching songs like 'Bed of Lies' and 'If You're Gone', the tunes are a bit softer - yet angrier - than other records. And it's this clash of feeling that makes the record spectacular.
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Sell 10 million copies of your debut album and you might find yourself putting on a few airs. Evidence that it's happened to matchbox twenty can be found in the new, spelled-out format of their all-lowercased name and the pretentious insertion of that name into the title of this, their sophomore set. The level of popularity achieved by their 1996 debut, Yourself or Someone Like You, posed a more profound problem, though--should they follow in the footsteps of that smash effort, or strike out in a different direction? To their credit, the Orlando quintet puts their massive popularity on the line by opting mostly for the latter course: there are no obvious retreads here of earlier hits such as "Push," "3 a.m.," and "Real World"--or of "Smooth," the multiple-Grammy-winning Santana hit penned and sung by matchbox frontman Rob Thomas. Instead, the album sports a nice mix of material that is catchy, but may take a little longer to settle into your memory banks, such as the moody yet intense "Bent," the horn-driven rocker "Black & White People," and several songs examining various aspects of relationships, "If You're Gone," "Rest Stop," and "Bed of Lies." Whatever the members of matchbox twenty want to call themselves, these guys may yet be able to have it all--artistic growth as well as massive sales. They're not headed for Hootieville just yet. --Daniel DurchholzPop Music CDs
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