Album Description: One of the most beloved live bands on the scene today Blues Traveler are currently on an extensive package tour with Live and Collective Soul. They will be on the road throughout the fall promoting their Verve Forecast debut North Hollywood Shootout.
The first single will be "You, Me and Everything."
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - The Black Cat is gone... but...
It's weird to listen a BT album with 4 or 5 slowtempo songs. It's weird to listen in a BT album just to much synth sounds and "pussy" sounds.
It's weird in a BT album but BT still manages to mixed up and sound great at it. They still manage to get along with rock, with pop, with (some little but still) jam. They try to catch some lost spark since Bastardos, and they succed it, in part.
In part because NHS still feels half way "there". First step, it's sounds more thight than Bastardos, second, is that it's is a diferent way from bastardos but it's like a "return" way, ... Read More
Rating: - Great album from really great jam band.
Not only are there are several songs on here that you would absolutely hope to hear from Popper etal, but there are some real surprises. The "free willis" song is a true head nodder with a great bass line throughout, and with Popper's vocal's really distorted, supporting Bruce Willis' spoken word, it probably is the biggest surprise for any Blues Traveler long-time listener. The best song is "orange in the sun," hands-down, but close runner up would be "how you remember it", "beacons" and "you, me and everything". Those three are really the meat of this, in my humble opinion. What's nice about this ... Read More
Rating: - Mostly? It's just dull.
As I see it, Blues Traveler reinvented itself spectacularly after the death of their first bassist. Bridge and Truth Be Told are my two favorite BT albums. The addition of the piano, and a change in emphasis I think, allowed for more extensively complex arrangements and details in the studio work that I still find spectacularly inventive (my personal favorite, in terms of production, is You Reach Me from Bridge - there is so much going on in that song, it's difficult to know where to start.)
So, after those two albums, I was really expecting something outstanding from Bastardos!, and what ... Read More
Rating: - Fantastic songwriting, great production, strong album
North Hollywood Shootout is a really strong record, and along with 2003's Truth Be Told the best Blues Traveler 2.0 album so far. It has everything a BT fan loves and wants: strong rockers such as "The Beacons" or "How You Remember It", great pop songs such as "Love Does", "What Remains" or "Orange In The Sun" and even weird experimental stuff like the final track featuring Bruce Willis - and, of course, Popper's great vocal and harmonica skills. I really enjoy listening to that CD and hope there will be more BT albums of that quality in the future. Highly recommended!
Rating: - ho-hum
This album is decent, and has a few worthwhile tracks. "forever owed" is good. But what it lacks is ENERGY and EXCITEMENT, I really hate to say it (as I am a HUGE BT fan) but this album is middle of the road, ho-hum boring. WHERE IS THE ROCK????!!!! AND DRUM MACHINE TRACKS?? COME ON GUYS!!! "You and Me..." is not WILD at all. Even the songs that attempt to rock and be loud sound too tame. I have heard them live and its the way this album was recorded that sucks, there is just no ENERGY, maybe the boys were smokin' too much...
If you are just getting in to BT, get the Greatest hits CD or Save ... Read More
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