Music CD - Five for Fighting: The Battle for Everything

	Music CD: The Battle for Everything Artist: Five for Fighting List Price: $13.98 Our Price: $4.28 Your Save: $ 9.70 ( 69% ) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Manufacturer: Sony
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Tracks: 1. NYC Weather Report 2. The Devil in the Wishing Well 3. If God Made You 4. 100 Years 5. Angels & Girlfriends 6. Dying 7. Infidel 8. Disneyland 9. Maybe I 10. The Taste 11. One More For Love 12. Nobody
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0696998618626 Label: Sony Manufacturer: Sony Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Sony Release Date: 2004-02-03 Studio: Sony
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Awesome Album! Comment: I must say that I feel compelled to write a review of this album! This is an amazing album! The lyrics are thought-provoking, and the music is very passionate! I have been listening to this album for just over 6 months now, and every time I listen to it I discover another nuance either in the music or in the lyrics; it sounds fresh each and every time! I love each and every song in this album. I can only think of one other album where I loved all the songs - U2's Joshua Tree! My favorite? "100 Years," of course! Customer Rating: Summary: The Battle for Everything Five for Fighting Comment: Excellent. Sounds are good. The best cd he made. Worth the money. Customer Rating: Summary: Very good! John is amazing! Comment: Enjoyable to watch John grow in his work and passions........... Customer Rating: Summary: trying to believe Comment: Five for Fighting's John Ondrasik seems finally to have got over himself and down to the business of singing about life. The result is a splended CD called, enigmatically, 'The Battle for Everything.' It promises to endure as a mile marker in his career, to say nothing of the annals of good listening. The album's opener, 'NYC Weather Report', fairly lilts. Ondrasik's irony seems less bent on anger venting than on description of life as a stranger, one passing through with wistful memories of places and relationships that failed but somehow cast their expectation forward into destinations that await the end of this moment in the journey. Back, yet somehow forward, to New York City. The man can also sing a mean love song. Shades of Sting's lyricism haunt 'If God Made You': 'Hey Kid .. Your time has come to change Though I need you more than I've needed anyone in any way tonight Hey Kid ... I know it won't be long The Captain's calling .. come to see you back where we belong Something inside me is breaking Something inside says there's somewhere better than this ... Sunset sailing on April skies Bloodshot fire coulds in her eyes I can't say what I might believe But if God made you he's in love with me' Ondrasik places the chord transition exactly where it releases the listener's attentive energy. The man can score a song. Then comes the high-air-play '100 Years', a wistful survey of live's brevity that conjures up Cat Stevens, John Mellencamp, and Billy Joel. Ondrasik stands up just fine in such company. It's a tune made for hearing over and over again, then once more. 'Dying' underscores Ondrasik's thickening credentials as a baladeer of lost love, though hardly with the campiness that such a description might suggest. It sounds real, not postured. Ondrasik has been criticized, of course, for the latter. This album should in part quiet that angle of criticism. In my judgment, the balance of anger with deeper and more varied sentiments, together with Ondrasik's growth as a writer, make THE BATTLE FOR EVERYTHING his first five-star offering. One feels confident it will not be his last. Customer Rating: Summary: Five for Fighting-The Battle for Everything Comment: I love this CD! I am 55 yrs old and have heard a lot of music; but I can safety say this music is in my top 5. More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: Math wiz and multi-instrumentalist John Ondrasik's third album under his rather misleading Five For Fighting rubric shows that he's lost little of the cranky ire that he unleashed on American Town, but this time his targets are a little closer to home. He skews faithless friends and bad habits on the tetchy opening track "NYC Weather report," oddly borrowing from both Guns N' Rose's "Paradise City," and Barbara Streisand's "People" to hammer his ornery point home, before training his sights on the human life span, fleeting relationships, and even Disneyland. But it isn't until "Girlfriends and Angels," that he shows his real brilliance, imagination and grit; Ondrasik finds the exact place where the Beach Boys intersects with the Velvet Underground and plants himself in that spot, spewing out his own hard won romantic philosophies, proving once again that the hunter does indeed get captured by the game. More ribald, sonically inventive, and lyrically edgy, The Battle For Everything, shows that Ondrasik's combative days may be behind him. --Jaan Uhelszki