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- Record Label: Atlantic
- Genre(s): Rock, Pop, Alternative
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 4 out of 14
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Mixed: 8 out of 14
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Negative: 2 out of 14
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The record boasts a huge, smooth production and is considerably more varied and accomplished than its predecessor.
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Each song isn't particularly interesting or life-changing, but, damn, if every one of them doesn't boast a hook that sticks in your head until you're humming "We Wish You A Merry Christmas" just to exorcise it. For better or worse, this is talented songwriting...
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On "Mad Season" the band serves up another slick collection of R.E.M. and Pearl Jam-influenced post-grunge classic rock tailor-made for ubiquitous radio play.
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The follow-up is an equally passionate, turbulent affair, sounding, oddly, like a cross between Foreigner and the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
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Especially in its ballad-heavy second half, mad season feels like the rock equivalent of a chick flick.
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Every song on Mad Season is a production mini-epic.... Under the haywire production are crafty songs.... But when the crescendos surge and the keyboards chime, he starts to sound as unctuous as 1970s cheeseballs from Lobo to Jim Croce to the Guess Who's Burton Cummings. Songs that probably seemed vulnerable as demos have turned greedily narcissistic.
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Musically this is the sound of middle America at its most ugly and nauseating...
Score distribution:
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Positive: 16 out of 18
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Mixed: 1 out of 18
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Negative: 1 out of 18
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PaulineTSep 9, 2004This album is great. And Rob Thomas's vocal is like WOW. Recommended for ALL matchbox twenty fans out there.
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HoleighR.Oct 14, 2001
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ScottM.Apr 28, 2002
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raVenDec 6, 2003
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NicMar 18, 2005
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CurefreakApr 26, 2009
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CarlCDec 26, 2003
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