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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Best. Album. EVER., 21 Jan 2004
By A Customer
I can't remember how many times I've listened to this album. Possibly a million. And no album since 92 has ever had an greater impact on me than this one. This one not only got me into "real good music", but it made me think about a lot of things in my life. It literally covers everything, love, politics, life, and in most cases war and peace. No other group out there could've wrote songs about those things better. If you havn't heard this album yet, you should. It may sound a bit dated, as in early 90's material, but it's still simply brilliant. The whole album tells a story. It starts off as seemingly in-your-face with a lot of sarcasm and hypocrisy.. then gradually gets more and more serious, with an unbelievable climax of three songs which delve quite deeply but metaphorically into religious issues. It really is a moving mixture of heavy guitar, hard beats, lots of solos, with classical layered over the top, great lyrics, great singing.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
THE album everyone should own..., 17 Nov 2000
Extreme have been a firm favourite of mine since not long after their second album was released. This 3rd offering simply blew my perceptions into another dimension. It's that good. I play guitar and so extreme's Nuno Bettencourt is something of a hero - he can play that thang! But the key to this album is emotion. It has 3 sides, and they go from rock through ballad and into a crescendo of orchestral grandeur. Don't think that this is like Metallica's S&M album - it's not. Cupid's Dead is one of my favourite tracks - the syncronised funk romp with guitar,bass, and drums all banging out a rapid complex beat while Gary Cherone punches out the words in his own way, is simply breathtaking, and especially so when you try and mimic the performance on a guitar. It rocks. So I say this to you : BUY THE ALBUM - You are meant to own it, it's fate!
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Career defining album from a band with an incredible career, 24 Oct 2000
By A Customer
This was one of the first albums that actually got me into music, an absolute masterpiece right from the first blast of 'Warheads' through to the 3-part 21 minute long rock symphony of 'Every Thing Under the Sun'. The bands previous album 'Pornograffitti' was heavier and funkier but this album traded the crunch for epic majesty, check out 'Colour Me Blind' for instance. The band showed their more political side in this album aswell, songs like 'Rest In Peace', 'Politicalamity' and Peacemaker Die' all demonstrate this. The album becomes gentler in the 'mine' section with some brilliant more mellow tracks like 'Stop the World' and 'Tragic Comic', before exploding into the glorious 'Everything Under the Sun'. As a band and as individuals this is the defining moment musically for Extreme. Gary Cherone had one album with Van Halen, Nuno Bettencourt did one solo album and two ablbums with his new band Mourning Widows, all of these have had their merit, especially Mourning Widows, (who really deserve to be released in Britain, get them over here NOW!!), but none have reached the peaks of 'III sides..'. If you want to get into Extreme, get this album, then Pornograffitti. Both are immense, but for me 'III Sides is true genious. I will never tire of this album, purelt due to the diversity of the music on it. By the way if you play the guitar, Nuno ain't bad!
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