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Taproot - Gift Audio CD

A fair review of the Taproot "Gift" 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 Taproot reviews here, or go back to the Taproot tabs.

Taproot Band: Taproot
Title: Gift
Rating:
Release Date: 2000-06-27
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Smile 2: Again & Again 3: Emotional Times 4: Now 5: 1 Nite Stand 6: Believed 7: Mentobe 8: I 9: Mirror's Reflection 10: Dragged Down 11: Comback 12: Impact

Good cd!
I havent really heard much of them lately. Taproot isnt for everyone. This cd is average!.


Descent album
The other albums have like one or two good songs on them. Descent album, and in my opinion, taproot's only good album. But this one is solid from start to finish. It also features one of my all time favorite songs.


Not what I'd hoped
Nothing could be further from the truth. I bought "Welcome" first, so with minor exception I tricked myself into thinking that "Gift" would be an earlier, more raw rendition of "Welcome".

Musically, I think "Gift" is Taproot before they learned to play and sing. It is also far more "fad-ish" than I expected. Sounds too much like the rap-rock and uninspired guitar work of Limp Bizkit and other here today-gone tomorrow bands of the era. There is little to no melody or pleasing sounds here, the lyrics are uninteresting, and the recording itself is abysmal. . . . wtf is up with some recording engineers today? Is the only recording level they know "0db"?

Bottom line. . . if you like "Welcome", don't bother with Gift. Doesn't even sound like the same band.


Just... Disappointing.
Very disappointing. Disappointing. Their first album is excellent. Their newest album is excellent, but this one is simply disappointing.

Not one of the songs hit me as "good" and that's just. . . well, disappointing.


You'll listen to this AGAIN & AGAIN
When Gift was first released my friend got the CD and played it all the time. . . so much so that both of us got sick of it and he eventually threw it away. Fast forward to about three months ago and I'm sitting in the autitorium about to watch Staind (my favorite band) throw it down and Taproot gets up to open. I wasn't expecting much but they blew me away. The next day I went and bought all three of their CD's and I have to say that Gift is just as great the second time around. 'SMILE' opens things perfectly and 'IMPACT' closes out the same. . . but it was and still is the single 'AGAIN & AGAIN' that just gets my blood pumping. 'NOW' and 'I' and my personal favorite 'MENTOBE' just rock everytime. . . songs like 'EMOTIONAL TIMES' are a little too whiney for my taste's but '1 NITE STAND' makes up for it (killer song). . . This album is just all around kick@$$ and will be on constant cycle in your CD changer. . . just take a hint from me and don't play it TOO much. . . savor it. . . it taste better that way.


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