Posts Tagged: opaline

2005 / 3 stars / lifehouse / reviews — No Comments
8
Dec 08

Lifehouse (2005) by Lifehouse

Genre: pop, alternative
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“Undone,” “You and Me,” and “Blind.”
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Lifehouse’s Who We Are, Dishwalla’s Opaline

In this first album since member Sergio Andrade left the band, Lifehouse uses their music to ‘detoxify’ and find their footing. The lyrics returned to Wade’s familiar territory of teenage angst for parents and the world, while the arrangements softened to give the album a supposedly-introspective feel. Instead, much of the album induces somnolence, most especially the repetition of the ridiculous lyrics in their hit single, “You and Me.” Thankfully, Lifehouse returned in 2007 with the much more palatable Who We Are.

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2002 / 5 stars / dishwalla / reviews — No Comments
26
Feb 08

Opaline (2002) by Dishwalla

Genre: alt rock
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Check Out: “Candleburn,” “When Morning Comes,” and “Nashville Skyline”
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Do you remember that song from 1995 called Counting Blue Cars? It had the lyrics tell me all your thoughts on God/ 'cause I would really like to meet her/ and ask her why we're who we are. Yep, that was Dishwalla. Fast forward to 2002, and they released a less-known album called Opaline.

I suppose you could say that this album was written as they were recovering from their five minutes of fame and attempting to keep that publicity going, yet the lengths that they were going to caused them to question themselves. Nashville Skyline is especially telling; the lines don't go on looking for the love/ in the illusion of it all/ the answer's in the dream betray the kind of pain they must of gone through to reach that level of maturity. I'm sorry they went through it, but their disillusionment makes one of the best alt rock albums I've heard in my lifetime.

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