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7.0

Generally favorable reviews- based on 8 Ratings

  • Summary: The band's sixth album is their first since the death of bassist Bobby ("Brooklyn Bob") Sheehan and serves as a tribute to him.

Top Track

Girl Inside My Head
When all is said and done, I wish I needed no one Never was up to me Just something in her way that sets me free It seems so easy And yeah, I try to... See the rest of the song lyrics
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 8
  2. Negative: 1 out of 8
  1. This cuts back significantly on winding jams, upping the ante with tight songs and performances, a clean muscular production, and a lack of vocal histrionics from Popper
  2. Entertainment Weekly
    75
    What's always lifted them above their peers are Popper's percussive harmonica and those wonderfully melodic songs -- both of which are abundant here. [6/1/01, p.90]
  3. 70
    Rather than dwell on tragedy or sulk through an album of moodier blues, they deliver a batch of radio-friendly tunes reminiscent of their commercial breakthrough, Four.
  4. Their songwriting sometimes comes up short, but these avatars of the Nineties jam-band movement know they can placate their fans with a little showboating.
  5. On Bridge, they're still traveling down the long and winding improvisational road, with most of the tracks averaging around five minutes in length (as is true with most of their studio albums). This time out, though, the songs feel like they're twice that.
  6. Blender
    40
    In attempting to be energetic, the band merely sounds busy. [Jun/Jul 2001, p.105]
  7. The real crime is that these guys are good musicians who happen to have horrible taste.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 4
  3. Negative: 1 out of 4
  1. Jeremy
    Jul 30, 2001
    10
    This album kicks ass. I think it's sad that we live in a time where faggity ass boy bands, pseudo-breasted pop star wanna-be girls who This album kicks ass. I think it's sad that we live in a time where faggity ass boy bands, pseudo-breasted pop star wanna-be girls who can't sing and sucky ass bands such as Match Box 20 and that God forsaken band The Offspring are considered artists who produce good music. Long live truly gifted musicians such as the ones who maintain Blues Traveler. They are the real future of music. Expand
  2. DerrickE.
    Nov 4, 2001
    10
    This is a great album.
  3. PuneetC
    Mar 16, 2007
    10
    Would've voted 9.9 , cos my brain just cannot take the whole album at one time .. but .. truely .. a masterpiece ..
  4. Oct 10, 2014
    0
    The album isn't really a zero. It's a solid 5/10, nothing spectacular, but I rated it 0 so as to bring the user rating down to a lessThe album isn't really a zero. It's a solid 5/10, nothing spectacular, but I rated it 0 so as to bring the user rating down to a less deceptive level. It's not terrible, but it's not great. It's just another bland, conservative, contemporary country-ish album. Expand