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Jars of Clay - The Eleventh Hour Audio CD

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Jars of Clay Band: Jars of Clay
Title: The Eleventh Hour
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Release Date: 2002-03-05
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Disappear 2: Something Beautiful 3: Revolution 4: Fly 5: I Need You 6: Silence 7: Scarlet 8: Whatever She Wants 9: The Eleventh Hour 10: These Ordinary Days 11: The Edge Of Water

Great music
Mellow with some rock involved too. Definitely a fan of Jars of Clay since they began and this CD is one of my favorite of theirs. Enjoy it!.


I love it!
I got this CD in GREAT condition and at a very low price (less than $5)!.


Wonderful CD
I have been a fan for years since the beginning of Jars. Excellent CD. It was them that turned me on to Christian contemporary music. This affirms my love for their style and talent. As others CD's their musical style varies from rock to simple verse-laden songs. The first cut "Disappear" is far the best in my opinion. Get this one as well as my other favorite Jars, "Much Afraid".


"...TO BE A REVOLUTION !" (Rocking for Jesus outside of the mainstream)
The lyrics aren't obvious in their meaning, and most of this music could actually be interpreted to have secular significance. The Eleventh Hour (2002), the fourth album from Christian pop/folk/alt rockers Jars Of Clay, could fly right under the radar of someone who didn't know that the theme is spiritual. Religous buzzwords aren't used much here. Listen closer and you'll find heartfelt, thoughtful and uplifting spiritual concepts that are very real.

JOC is a four member band of rock musicians who met in college in the early 1990s, and possess savvy instincts for catchy pop melodies with alt-rock arrangements.

The production on The Eleventh Hour is crisp, clear and well-defined. JOC often creates expressions of hope and joy, but they also explore the uncertain and lonely times of doubt in their songs of faith. Silence is a very effective and haunting example of this loss of connection.

And I thought you left me
For the wreckage and the waste
On an empty beach of faith
Was it true?
I got a question
Where are you?

A scary place that every believer can relate to. The mood is brighter in the hopeful Something Beautiful.

Close my eyes and hold my heart
Cover me and make me something
Change this something normal
Into something beautiful

In Revolution, peace and individuality is the message.

Because you don't have to fight
Or make yourself belong
. . . to be a Revoluton!

Yeah, this is pretty good stuff. It's a little out of the mainstream of most Christian music, but not way out. It's not hard rock by any stretch. If this music were a person, it would probably have sort of long hair and be wearing jeans. You know, like the guys in Jars Of Clay do.


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Beautiful in its own right...
If there is one thing I always enjoy in Jars of Clay even if I don't love the whole album, it is their complete honesty about their life and Christian walk. Jars of Clay has led a legacy of continually evolving their sound while still containing the essence of their music - complete honesty and emotional intesity in their music. My introuction to Jars of Clay was "From the Studio to the Stage" which is still probably my favorite album by them.

What they did in "The Eleventh Hour" is take the essence what they are and build up on that. It is much more stripped down than the precious album "If I left the Zoo" and not quite as folkish or country influenced as their older and newer stuff. The music on this album is so honest and bold, with songs such as "Scarlet Letter" and "Everything she Wants" that it makes this album feel a lot more angry than their other albums. While "Good Monsters" is a harder album overall, it is tracks like "Revolution" that proved JOC could rock it like nobodies busniess. My personal favorite from JOC besides "Liquid", "Dig, and "All my Tears" is "I need you". "I need You" is a plead to God that thing suck, and well they need God, which is how I feel a lot of the time. :D

If you like honesty in your Christian music, and can handle Christian music that is at times more subtle in its references, you will enjoy "The Eleventh Hour".

*ENJOY* ~Amy

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