Matchbox 20's First Album

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Fahka
Fahka Posts: 3,187
edited February 2006 in Other Music
Was really good! Really sucks that the lead singer got a stick up his ass and became a gay solo artist, they could have been a decent strong lasting band otherwise...
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  • AxlUlrich
    AxlUlrich Posts: 12,652
    i thought it was decent..really like "3 am"
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  • DieasGrey
    DieasGrey Posts: 124
    hmmm thats odd ...i thought it was crap.
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  • boroff89
    boroff89 Posts: 786
    DieasGrey wrote:
    hmmm thats odd ...i thought it was crap.

    Ditto. Mindless pop music. But that's just my opinion. I could be wrong.
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  • DriftingByTheStorm
    DriftingByTheStorm Posts: 8,684
    DieasGrey wrote:
    hmmm thats odd ...i thought it was crap.


    you mean you didn't like the whole "Eddie Vedder Lite" sound?

    Rob kind've invented that, i thought.

    Sheer genius.

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  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    LeatherMandi wrote:
    Was really good! Really sucks that the lead singer got a stick up his ass and became a gay solo artist, they could have been a decent strong lasting band otherwise...

    I have to admit I like the album for what it is: a step above bubble gum pop. But they do have some catchy songs on there. Long Day is the best song on there and gets no airplay. I disagree that they would have been a "decent strong lasting band otherwise", whatever that means.
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  • deadmosquito
    deadmosquito Posts: 729
    they still are a band, as far as i know..... rob thomas just decided to make a solo record didn't he? and didn't mikey play guitar on their 3rd record?
  • shahril
    shahril Posts: 288
    deadmosquito wrote:
    they still are a band, as far as i know..... rob thomas just decided to make a solo record didn't he? and didn't mikey play guitar on their 3rd record?

    did our mike play on the 3rd record? thats news to me.

    i think from a musical standpoint, minus all the hype and stuff...they have a few really solid rock tunes. 3 am was mentioned, and there was bright lights as well..which i thought was a really good effort. music-wise theyre respectable. fuck all the stuff that goes around it. concentrate on the music.
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  • deadmosquito
    deadmosquito Posts: 729
    shahril wrote:
    did our mike play on the 3rd record? thats news to me.

    i think from a musical standpoint, minus all the hype and stuff...they have a few really solid rock tunes. 3 am was mentioned, and there was bright lights as well..which i thought was a really good effort. music-wise theyre respectable. fuck all the stuff that goes around it. concentrate on the music.


    i read on this board a while back that mr. mccready did some of the lead guitar parts for their third album. i don't know which songs in particular, and i only have a copy of the CD from a friend, so i don't have the liner notes to check.
  • freewheelin3
    freewheelin3 Posts: 173
    mike played on the wallflowers last album...
  • culot4
    culot4 Posts: 775
    I've never admitted it and probably would never admit it out loud but I've always liked Back 2 Good....It has a nostalgic 80's sound to it and reminds me of when I was a young kid listening to top 40....Damn, I feel like a retard.
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  • Fahka
    Fahka Posts: 3,187
    culot4 wrote:
    I've never admitted it and probably would never admit it out loud but I've always liked Back 2 Good....It has a nostalgic 80's sound to it and reminds me of when I was a young kid listening to top 40....Damn, I feel like a retard.


    i really like back 2 good


    and the acoustic version of push is really good ..also the acoustic version of shame, damn, and long day is pretty good too

    (btw i think rob sounds nothing like eddie, at all. or tries )
  • oktacoma
    oktacoma Posts: 335
    I agree that Matchbox 20 is definitely very "poppy" but I dig their music. Same goes for Maroon 5...definitely pop music but I like their sound.
  • MrMerkinball
    MrMerkinball Posts: 1,978
    My Wife's 3 favorite artists

    1. Shania Twain
    2. Garth Brooks
    3. Matchbox 20

    that says it all for me
  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    culot4 wrote:
    I've never admitted it and probably would never admit it out loud but I've always liked Back 2 Good....It has a nostalgic 80's sound to it and reminds me of when I was a young kid listening to top 40....Damn, I feel like a retard.

    There is nothing wrong with liking it. Is listening to music supposed to make you feel good or up your coolness factor in the eyes of snobs?
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • locked
    locked Boston Posts: 4,048
    culot4 wrote:
    I've never admitted it and probably would never admit it out loud but I've always liked Back 2 Good....It has a nostalgic 80's sound to it and reminds me of when I was a young kid listening to top 40....Damn, I feel like a retard.


    give yourself a break..!.
    "Back 2 good" is a great post-break up song..
    as soupy as that may be..
    good call!

    Love the "everyone here hates everyone here for doing just like they do"..
    good commentary on how the dating scene feels after a long term break up..
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  • LBC1076
    LBC1076 Posts: 224
    I had the pleasure of seeing them in a little club down in Birmingham, AL before the 1st album got popular and I thought they were good, good enough to pick up the other 2 cds when they came out and to go see them live again in a bigger setting.

    I thought they had a nice range that their music covered, from a little bit of rock to pop to soul.
  • svh
    svh Posts: 21
    i don´t listen to them anymore, but i liked them alot when i was younger and when i had to go through a scary time (you know, faith no more is really not good in moments like that...)
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  • soaks the pages
    soaks the pages Posts: 91
    their last two sucked, yeah, but the first one is a good album. and for the people criticizing it for being catchy pop-rock, isn't that what the beatles made? (and before anyone starts with me: no i'm not comparing mb20 with the beatles, i'm just stating that there isn't anything wrong with solid pop-rock, however lame the band's name may be.)

    oh, and rob thomas never sounded like "eddie vedder lite" to me. there were plenty of singers who did sound that way mid-90s, but rob thomas wasn't one of them.
    that's faarkokte.
  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    soaks the pages wrote:
    their last two sucked, yeah, but the first one is a good album. and for the people criticizing it for being catchy pop-rock, isn't that what the beatles made? (and before anyone starts with me: no i'm not comparing mb20 with the beatles, i'm just stating that there isn't anything wrong with solid pop-rock, however lame the band's name may be.)

    oh, and rob thomas never sounded like "eddie vedder lite" to me. there were plenty of singers who did sound that way mid-90s, but rob thomas wasn't one of them.

    Good post.
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  • illegal pants
    illegal pants Posts: 13,471
    definitely their best album

    matchbox twenty hit the studios soon... probably next year... the lead guitarist kyle has a side indie band thats pretty decent

    fuck fame... fuck what rob wears or look like... they have some gems

    listen to rob's first band, tabitha's secret, its raw, its good, yeh
    wah

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