Feb 28, 2003 12:27 AM
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(Updated Feb 28, 2003 12:27 AM)
The Best CD of the 1990's is a must own for anyone who can remember names from the past they wish would still be in their life. This is a great sounding album, but also a menaningful look into the feelings of angst, sadness, and reflection that pervade all our lives.
The CD has four parts to it. The first two songs offer solid rock songs providing a glimpse of the themes to appear in later songs. Semi-Charmed Life, Jumper, Graduate, and How's it Going to Be form the popular segment of the CD. These four songs are all meaningful and definitely catchy pop rock tunes. Nothing sounds better than Semi-Charmed Life, although the lyrics are almost totally about drugs. Jumper has a terrific musical ending that is energetic and original. Graduate is a catchy hard roker, and How's it Going to Be is as perfect as melancholoy gets.
The third segment of the CD is not the best. Thanks a Lot, Burning Man, Good for You, and London are generic filler songs. There are some guitar highlights in these four tracks, but not enough to keep you interested.
But the real magic of the CD arrives in the final four tracks. I want You is a melodic, catchy tune with an obvious and overwhelming theme of longing running through it. The Background is the saddest of all songs, with a legitimately emotional voice belting out, ''I felt you long after we were through...''. And in typical Third Eye Blind style, the catchy guitar chords pick up where lyrics leave off. Just when the lyrics hit you, the music is getting ready to hit you harder. The penultimate song, Motorcycle Drive-By starts slow and ends passionately, seemingly ending the CD. But there is one more track to come, and it will leave you with no doubt in your mind that this is the best CD of the 90's. That last lyric and the closing music offer a perfect end to a near-perfect album.
