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Staind - 14 Shades of Grey Audio CD

A fair review of the Staind "14 Shades of Grey" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Staind reviews here, or go back to the Staind tabs.

Staind Band: Staind
Title: 14 Shades of Grey
Rating:
Release Date: 2003-05-20
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Price To Play 2: How About You 3: So Far Away 4: Yesterday 5: Fray 6: Zoe Jane 7: Fill Me Up 8: Layne 9: Falling Down 10: Reality 11: Tonight 12: Could It Be 13: Blow Away 14: Intro

Recommended for all Staind fans
" There are no depressing melodies or hard-hitting lyrics that are found in "Dysfunction" and sometimes in "Cycle", but we do get to see a major maturity from Staind. The band's fourth album sounds mildly different from "Break the Cycle", and drastically different from "Dysfunction. It may be bad to some fans, but I still admire this band even with the change in sound. 14 Shades of Grey contains the singles "So Far Away," "Price to Play," and "Zoe Jane". All three songs are great to listen to, and the other songs on the album, particulary "Fray", should not be missed.

Grade: A.


Of course.
If it was they'd be boring. Every artists album will not be the same. Granted, i preferred their first two. This one is good. At first i didn't think it was , but after listening more i started to like it. Staind has always been a band with soft vocals and heavy guitars at points. Most bands usually go from the opposite from when they started anyways. Nothing is ever the same. Trust me.


I like itA
Again , if you don't own the best of CD , buy this one and the other 2.


Worst Staind album
Thank god Chapter V is a great album. 13 tracks from Staind and only 3 are any good, huge disappointment from a great band.


Staind Brown Cardigans
A mistake, you'd have to think. This CD was some how misfiled in the metal racks of the music store. The heaviest that 14 Shades of Grey gets is in the first song "Price To Play" which curiously was the album's commercial single. Maybe that says something in itself - the heavy stuff is (or used to be) what brought the fans in the door for Staind, not the 3 Doors Down-style rock.

Anyway, the album itself isn't a complete disaster. It hangs together with some reasonable melodies, but there's just a certain sameness, and slowness, that puts this release light years away from Staind's very good album, Dysfunction. Sure, bands mature and grow up, but that doesn't mean they have to put on the brown cardigans.


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