Time of My Life!

And now for a band that I'm sure everyone reading this forums has at least heard of, 3 Doors Down.

As many of you may know, 3 Doors Down is an alternative rock band out of Mississippi and they just released their 5th album, "Time of My Life", on July 19th. The band says that they have bumped it up "to the next level" with this new album. We will see I guess. "Time of My Life" has some tough acts to follow.

A little band history:
The band's success began with the release of "A Better Life"2000). It was a huge success, selling over 6 million copies, with singles such as "Kryptonite" and "Loser." "Away from the Sun"(2002) continued their mainstream success. "Here Without You"(an excellent song but horribly overplayed) and "When I'm Gone" were amazing. After this was the band's 3rd album "17 Days"(2005). Honestly I don't remember a thing from this album other than "Let Me Go." However, the self titled album(2008) was much better. It had some awesome singles such as "Not My Time" and "Let Me Be Myself."

Band Members:
The band currently consists of 5 members; lead vocalist Brad Arnold, lead guitarist Matt Roberts,rhythm guitarist Chris Henderson, bass guitarist Todd Harrell, and drummer Greg Upchurch.



Now that that bit of boring is over we can get on with talking about the new album. :)

The new album has it's high points. Songs such as "Every Time You Go," "When You're Young," and "Time of My Life" are quite good but the rest of the album IMO seems kinda mediocre. Some of the songs I noticed have sections that are very similar to songs that were successes on previous albums. For instance, the intro to "When You're Young" is very similar to that of "When I'm Gone" from Away From the Sun. I am not saying that this is a bad album but I do think that they need to do a bit more brainstorming as far as melody goes before releasing a new album. There are good songs but to me it feels like one of those albums you buy for the good songs then don't really listen to the rest of it. And it really pains me to say this as I have been a big 3 Doors Down fan since 2000 when A Better Life Released.

Tracklist:
1. "Time of My Life"             3:23
2. "When You're Young"      4:16
3. "Round and Round"          3:46
4. "Heaven"                          3:27
5. "Race for the Sun"            2:59
6. "Back to Me"                   3:42
7. "Every Time You Go"       3:48
8. "What's Left"                    3:42
9. "On the Run"                    3:08
10. "She Is Love"                 3:16
11. "My Way"                      3:07
12. "Believer"                       2:58

Tune Junkies overall score for "Time of My Life":

After trying and trying to give the album a high score, "Time of My Life" gets 3 out of 5 stars. Being a big fan it pains me to say that the album just does not offer as much as previous albums have from 3 Doors Down. There are a couple good songs but a good portion is filler. The lyrics are not bad, that is up to par with what 3DD normally brings to the table however the musical elements and melodies just are not there to back it up. I really hope to hear more in the next album. Too many great bands are throwing out sub-par albums recently.


Suggested tracks for "Time of My Life":
1. Time of My Life
2. When You're Young
7. Every Time You Go



Time of My Life(sorry about the bad audio quality, best I could find):


Post by: Tune Junkie
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