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71

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7.1

Generally favorable reviews- based on 7 Ratings

  • Summary: The fourth album for the Orange County frat-rockers.

Top Track

When It's Over
When it's over That's the time I fall in love again And when it's over That's the time you're in my heart again And when you go go go go I know It... See the rest of the song lyrics
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  1. Positive: 6 out of 10
  2. Negative: 0 out of 10
  1. There isn't a dud among this project's 11 tracks, each of which sounds custom-made for radio.
  2. Sugar Ray actually sound like a band -- a quality missing from most of their earlier work.
  3. Q Magazine
    80
    As radio-friendly as Radiohead are not. [Sep 2001, p.120]
  4. And while it might be difficult to swallow yet another dose of hip-hop-lite and poor-me acoustic pop songs from chick-magnet lead singer Mark McGrath and gang, these Southern California boys make the everyman breeziness work for them.
  5. Spin
    60
    They're all pretty good, actually, especially "When It's Over"... [Aug 2001, p.129]
  6. 60
    Keeping things light is both the band's strongest asset and its greatest weakness.
  7. In listening to Sugar Ray, it's easy to forget this band began as heavy guitar funketeers--its sound today is tame by comparison.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 2
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 2
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  1. Nov 25, 2021
    10
    An incredibly good album by Sugar Ray!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  2. DieterG.
    Jul 30, 2001
    9
    My favourite of the Sugar Ray albums, it's a smooth, polished sound, full of drum and bass, mixed with the original Sugar Ray energy. An My favourite of the Sugar Ray albums, it's a smooth, polished sound, full of drum and bass, mixed with the original Sugar Ray energy. An excellent pop record, even if not a classic Expand