The Offspring - Rise & Fall, Rage & Grace
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Artist: The OffspringEdition: Music CD
Format: Explicit Lyrics
CD Release Date: 2008-06-17
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- Half-Truism
- Trust in You
- You're Gonna Go Far, Kid
- Hammerhead
- Lot Like Me
- Takes Me Nowhere
- Kristy, Are You Doing Okay?
- Nothingtown
- Stuff Is Messed Up
- Fix You
- Let's Hear It for Rock Bottom
- Rise and Fall
Music reviews of Rise & Fall, Rage & Grace
Music Review: A better mixed bag than usual
Rating: 4 Stars
I'm used to having mixed reactions to The Offspring, but this strikes me as a very strong outing for them. The lyrics are much more pointed than blunt on my favorite 5 tracks and the music is a very clean and cathartic sonic assault. I don't recommend the whole album, but...
"Rise and Fall" is one of those odd tracks that is so flawless that it's almost not even there because it glosses by with such form and elegance. It's very smooth and I like it a lot.
"Half-Truism" explodes over the top as a joyously spiteful retro power-ballad. Goes well as an absurdist chaser after "Gone Away."
"Trust in You" is an interesting character study track of the sort of person who has more scorn than common sense. It's surprisingly well crafted and driven.
"Nothingtown" seems to be the teenage gotta-leave-town angst response to The Killers "Read My Mind" with a bucket of ice-cold reality dumped over its head but trying to maintain a bit of hope regardless. The (out-of-place) doo-wop-iness of this track is comparable to, but nowhere as extreme as, TISM's "Greg! The Stop Sign!"
That said, "You're Gonna Go Far Kid" is far and away the best track in the batch. Some people complain that it's ear candy, but it's far too well written to be just that. It's a track about how dangerous competent rabble-rousers are and it's stunningly lucid. It's a fabulous piece of work. But maybe I'm biased in favor of the subject matter -- I judge debate tournaments for fun.
Description of Rise & Fall, Rage & Grace
Rise And Fall, Rage And Grace, the eighth studio album from the OC punksters, is an impressive new set of songs from one of rock's most exciting and enduring bands. The Offspring entered the studio with legendary producer Bob Rock (Metallica, The Cult) to record 12 new songs culled from the most productive songwriting period in the band's history. This is the band's first full-length studio release in four and a half years, the longest gap between The Offspring's studio albums to date. 'Hammerhead' the 1st single from Rise And Fall, Rage And Grace debuted at #5 on the U.S Billboard Modern Rock Tracks and #18 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks respectively. The Offspring has performed over 1000 shows and they have sold more than 34 million albums worldwide, including their 1994 release "Smash," which more than a decade after its release remains the highest-selling album of all time on an independent label.General CDs
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