Switchfoot - The Beautiful Letdown
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Artist: SwitchfootEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2003-02-25
Music Label: Red Int / Red Ink
Soundtracks:
- Meant To Live
- This Is Your Life
- More than Fine
- Ammunition
- Dare You To Move
- Redemption
- Beautiful Let Down
- Gone
- On Fire
- Adding To The Noise
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Music reviews of The Beautiful Letdown
Music Review: Contrived, boring drivel from a contrived, boring band
Rating: 1 Stars
I first discovered Switchfoot only last year from a friend of mine, I saw the band's name under the music section on MySpace (next to big names like Green Day and The Offspring), and downloaded some of their songs.
After hearing Meant To Live and Gone, both good songs that now feel weaker a few months on, I decided to go out and get the album. Hell, I didn't even know the band was a Christian band at the time.
So I buy the album, put it on in the car, play Meant to Live full blast, eagerly awaiting the next song. That next song, This Is Your Life began and I started to get bored..... almost bored enough that I fell asleep! I skip to the next track, More than Fine, then I lost my patience and took the CD out of the player.
I tried listening to the CD some more about a week later, though each track except for Meant to Live and Gone (which are now in the same league as the rest of the album), bored, depressed, and in some cases offended me. (I'm a Christian and believe in God, and am fairly conservative as well, but I like my rock music full of smut and ROCK! Also, I don't like the band's anti-capitalist/humanitarian attitudes.)
Buy if you like Christian music, want to get your grandparents into some rock music they won't winge about but otherwise DON'T TOUCH THIS ALBUM WITH A 100-MILE POLE!
Description of The Beautiful Letdown
Contemporary Christian music has come a long way toward secular acceptance in recent years thanks to the likes of Switchfoot, who avoid obvious sacred references in their lyrics. It's also refreshing to hear CCM songwriters like Switchfoot's Jonathan Foreman explore love and belonging as song subjects. Unfortunately, The Beautiful Letdown hews too closely to the formula established by alternative CCM brethren Jars of Clay and Creed. Songs like the title track and "More Than Fine" come close to forging their own identity, but too often sound overproduced and designed to appeal to the widest audience. Still, Foreman's songwriting shows potential, and his progressive vision for spiritual themes indicates a willingness to color outside the lines. --Matthew CookeGeneral CDs
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