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 Best BRAD Album YET! Jan 13, 2008
some people do not like this album, but i think it is great! i think it is his best work.
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discovering discovery park May 01, 2005
I must disagree with the earlier negative reviews. Found this CD today in a bargain bin. Overall a quality product with some very interesting tracks. A more mature direction for the band. Perhaps, this is the reason for the dissatisfaction with younger listeners. I like this CD better than "interiors" and recommend it for those looking for a melodic and somewhat serene listining experience.
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 Welcome to the end of Shawn's career Jan 23, 2004
I am a huge fan of Shawn Smith since first hearing "Shame" way back when...This new album flat out sucks...Shawn has always stayed one step ahead of listeners until now. Shawn, put down the bong, layoff the donuts and quit it with the "La La La" in every song...it was interesting the first time but its not a style. Take some time off instead of writing junk...the same goes for stone.
 mediocre at best, and that's being generous Jan 13, 2004
i bought this album after a brad show. shawn smith and company were amazing on stage, and i was a pretty big smith fan, so i picked it up. for some reason the recorded versions just didn't grab me like the songs played live. i mean, they aren't even close. maybe it's because they peppered the set with brad classics, and even soem satchel songs. who knows. first of all, smith really mailed in the songwriting duties on this one. i always thought he was a perfectly serviceable writer. nothing outstanding, but his voice completely made up for whatever small shortcomings he had on the writing end. well, not this time, folks. secondly, the melodies are just boring, ploddingly so. "shinin'" is a perfectly example. nice little catchy tune, but it's so inane i can't listen to it without laughing or cringing. the writing cripples the song. come on smith, living free is the way to be, living free is our destiny? wow, that's just bad. then we have the boring, almost michael-jacksonian "yes you are." and not good, "off the wall" or "thriller" vintage michael, but cloying, post-culkin michael. but it does have bright spots, thankfully. "la la la" transcends its silliness. "drop it down" is the brad i'm sure we all wanted. but these two songs, a spattering of mediocre tunes, and a load of crap does not a decent album make. buy it at your own risk. if you really want it, i have an almost-new copy for sale...
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Takes more than one listen Nov 06, 2003
When Pearl Jam's TEN came out, I thought it was the best album of all time. As a matter of fact, even today, I still believe that it is one of the top albums ever. Anyhow, I followed the whole Seattle scene at that time, and was very interested in 1993 to hear Stone Gossard's side project "Brad". I remember thinking it was crap the first time I heard the album "Shame", but the more I listened to it, the more I liked it, until it actually became another of my favorite albums. It's hard to say exactly what it was that made me like it so much, but I'm going to guess that it was the pure originality of the whole thing. They weren't like anything else I'd heard before. That originality is very much still alive and well on their latest release "Welcome to Discovery Park". And although right now, I don't like it as much as Shame, I think I probably haven't listened to it enough yet. I'm sure that once I've given a goo 4 or 5 listenings, that I'll love it just as much, because this music is like a fine wine, it's a refined and aquired taste.
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