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Music CD - The Fray: How to Save a Life
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Music CD: How to Save a Life
Artist: The Fray
List Price: $13.98
Our Price: $5.84
Your Save: $ 8.14 ( 58% )
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Manufacturer: Sony
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Tracks:
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1. She Is
2. Over My Head (Cable Car)
3. How To Save a Life
4. All At Once
5. Fall Away
6. Heaven Forbid
7. Look After You
8. Hundred
9. Vienna
10. Dead Wrong
11. Little House
12. Trust Me
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0827969393123
Label: Sony
Manufacturer: Sony
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Sony
Release Date: 2005-09-13
Studio: Sony
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Beautiful!
Comment: I learned about "The Fray" on "Grey's Anatomy." That song "How To Save A Life." Is so beautiful so, I bought the CD. Even though I bought the CD for that particular song I love the entire CD. The music is truly beautiful!
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Summary: Best CD I Own!!!
Comment: I absolutely love this band and every song they have on their CD. You are truly missing out if you don't buy it. "She Is" is my all-time favourite song!!!
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Summary: The fray how to save a life cd
Comment: Most songs are up beat, but there are a few that were a little dark.
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Summary: This record is something you need to have in your life.
Comment: Since the day I got the CD, I just cannot stop listening to it.
The more you listen to it, the more you love the music.
From the begining to the end of the record, the distinctive and very smooth voice of Isaac Slade, the lead vocalist is just amaging. The sounds of the piano he plays are not like someone else's music. He is a very talented musician and an artist.
Also the drummer of the band, Ben Wysocki is now one of my favorite drummers. If you listen to the song,"Look After You", you will see what I mean. His quiet but powerful sound will take you to a totally different world with the singing of Slade.
Sometime worlds are just useless to explain something what people to know.
This reocrd is worth to buy and to spend your time to listent to.
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Summary: The beauty of contrived 'introspection'
Comment: Simply taking on the biased perspective of a musician, and a music lover, I can't help but say that there's something about The Fray that continues to resonate with me, while I feel the intrinsic need to dismiss it. Holistically, it is far from being anything new (particularly the chords, the song structures and the polite/audience friendly depth to their lyrics), in the grand scheme of things, there are thousands of unknown bands who restir the piano-pop-rock game with a different flavour that is beyond the capacity of The Fray. But that being said, there's still something about this album that makes it a good listen.
While it doesn't offer a poetic and instrumental depth, what if offers is an experience that as someone else gracefully put it, will help a tired soul get back to a state of ease. The days that everything go wrong, or that the weight of the world feels like it's too much to bear, are the catalysts needed to make this album pertinent and relevant, and well, listenable. The emotions expressed reflect the bad things that have happened to the members in a quasi-nondescript way, and interestingly, hearing the same woes from another voice greatly assists in calming one's soul for several hours. (However, listening to it on a heavy rotation would no doubt cause nausea...)
Guaranteed The Fray will not be receiving much critical acclaim, nor is it even realistic to think they will be a name that will stay around for long. But hey, it's a no strings attached listening experience that's good now and then.
(And pardon if this is rude - I'll remove it, if asked - but did anyone else mistakenly think they sung "how to beat your wife" instead of "how to save a life"? Made me worried at first, but I'm glad I was wrong.)
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Editorial Reviews:
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On their full-length debut, Denver quartet the Fray don't exactly reinvent the wheel, but those looking for melodic, mid-tempo pop could do far worse. That said, the 12 songs on Top 40 hit How To Save a Life are barely distinguishable from each other. If you like one, you'll probably like the rest (and you'll be in the company of thousands of other listeners.) If you don't like one, it's unlikely the others will change your mind. Formed in 2002 and signed by Epic in 2004, the band consists of Isaac Slade (vocals, piano), Joe King (guitar, vocals), Ben Wysocki (drums), and Dave Welsh (guitar). Since their formation, the Fray have elicited comparisons to British groups like Coldplay and Keane, and American ones like Counting Crows and the Wallflowers. They've also toured with Weezer and Ben Folds and had songs--like first single "Over My Head (Cable Car)"--featured on such popular programs as Grey's Anatomy. Though they incorporate guitar, unlike Keane, Slade's expert piano playing is prominent on every track. To his credit, he can also hit the high notes just as gracefully as Coldplay's Chris Martin, but therein lies the rub: As with the band as a whole, Slade hasn't quite found his own voice yet. How To Save a Life is polished and professional, bland and inoffensive. It goes down easy, but evaporates into the ether just as quickly. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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