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| Artist: 12 Stones
Label: Wind Up
Category: Music
List Price: £11.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 6630
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 13126
UPC: 601501312625
EAN: 0601501312625
ASIN: B000SQKZQK
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| Tracks:
| » | Anthem for the Underdog | | » | Lie to Me | | » | Broken Road | | » | Adrenaline | | » | It Was You | | » | This Dark Day | | » | World So Cold | | » | Arms of a Stranger | | » | Hey Love | | » | Games You Play | | » | Lie to Me [Acoustic] |
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| Customer Reviews:
 Good modern hard rock becomes weak radio-rock-by-numbers September 30, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
The word "sellout" gets thrown around a lot, and most of the time it's a ridiculous thing to say. But when a very promising hard rock band with two albums full of great riffs turns out something which is, as my review title says, radio-rock-by-numbers, which sounds identical to countless other bands when previously they had their own identity, what other word is applicable?
All the riffs are gone. Where both the self-titled debut and "Potter's Field" had some monumental groove and great choruses, this just has nothing. If any two of the tracks here, and it wouldn't really matter which two, were used as filler on one of the previous two albums, it would be too many.
If you liked the first two records for the big Creed/Godsmack-style riffs and genuine hard rock attitude, you will not like this one. You will notice that all the positive reviews are from people who are happy with the change. Fair enough, they're radio rock fans. That's cool. But 12 Stones were not a radio rock band, so this is a disappointment.
 The radio-friendly release September 24, 2007
12 Stones' third album is their best sounding yet. The recruitment of a new guitarist and producer has enabled them to work out their best sound and create radio-friendly songs that you can sing along to.
Singer Paul McCoy shows off a great vocal range, where the previous efforts had been slightly monotonous. Just compare his laidback sounds in the verses of Hey Love and its softness in the acoustic version of Lie To Me with the aggression of Games You Play. There is no screaming as was present on the previous two albums though.
The songs together have a good variation in pace. Starting with the mid-tempo title track, speeding up with Adrenaline and then slowing down for emotional songs like World So Cold and Arms of A Stranger. This makes it easy to listen all the way through, which I found difficult with their previous CD. The only track I tend to skip on here is Games You Play, which is too heavy for my liking.
One final thing about lyrics. 12 Stones is often incorrectly referred to as a Christian Band, based on the possible religious interpretations of songs on their debut. You may or may not be glad to know that, apart from the track It Was You, it is difficult to see how the songs could be talking to or about God.
My complaint with the CD is that it's short, with only 10 tracks if you count the two versions of Lie To Me as one song. A different track was originally to close the album, a shame this was changed. Also, a couple of the songs sound a bit like hits from other artists.
If you are already a fan of 12 Stones, you may or may not be letdown with this "sell-out" sound. If you are not familiar with them, it might be worth checking out their previous releases to hear their original sound.
 12 stones changed for the better July 30, 2007
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
This album is simply perfect very consistent but also adventurous broken road, it was u, being some of the highlights as well as the amazing lie to me best album yet buy it help this band to the top
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