[Mynameishappy]

I "got my hand" on this album and gave it a listen. I don't know what to think. It's decent but there wasn't enough variation in the music to me, or at least I don't remember there being much. Perhaps I'll give it another listen.

[Jxlacvio]

It's decent but there wasn't enough variation in the music to me, or at least I don't remember there being much.

I guess I could see where you are comming from. I sort of felt the sameway when I first listened to the album. I didn't really care much for it after the first listen. As I listened to it a few more times the songs grew on me some more.

Dlyan is a thinker so you aren't going to get a lot of simple "everyone be happy" uplifting songs from him. He produces lyrics encompassing all the richness of experience. For example, he talks about and expresses a sense of assured wonder in his views on God, time, love and death in the song "God says nothing back".

Most of the songs address the deeper themes of loneliness, yearning, and ultimately our human fallibility. The album begins with songs that have an upbeat feel, like Days of Wonder and the Passenger, while it becomes more wistful and even somewhat bluesy with tracks like Confessions of a Drunken Marionette, God Says Nothing Back, and How Far You've Come. It all depends on what you are looking for. "From the Bottom of My Heart" is a stripped-down, acoustic ballad, the slow dancing "How Far You've Come" and "Back to California" is a good rocker.

While the music could use a little variation, you won't get much of that from Dylan. It doesn't seem to be his style. The way he tries to achieve variation is through his songwritting of which is his strength.

[WGRocky]

Rebel, Sweetheart
The Wallflowers
Released May 24th 2005
Lead singer: Jakob Dylan
The WallFlowers have returned. The band has been rather quiet following their 1996 quadruple-platinum album titled "Bringing Down the Horse". Which featured such hits as; "One Headlight", " 6th Avenue Heartache", "Difference" and "Three Marlenas". After that CD the band kind of fell off the face of the earth. They released two other cds inbetween one named "Breach" and the other called, "Red Letter Days". I have not listened to "Breach" myself but I have heard many claiming it to be rather bad. Red Letter Days, However, I bought and it is one of my favorite cds. There is only one song on the cd in which I don't care for. While the cd went under the radar for the most part I thought it was rather good.

Incase you didn't know The Wallflower's front man, Jakob Dylan, is the son of legendary singer/songwriter Bob Dylan. Jakob has never been big on becoming a Celebrity. He would rather sit back and work on his songwritting. For the new cd the Wallflowers went after famous producer Brendan O'Brien(Think: Bruce Springsteen and Pearl Jam). It seems to have helped.... because from top to bottom I feel Rebel, Sweetheart is a very soild album. The track "Back to California" even reminds me a little bit of a Pearl Jam song.

The album's current single: "The beautiful side of somewhere" is in my opinion one of the weaker songs on the album. So if you don't care for the single but are still a WallFlowers fan you should consider checking out the rest of their stuff.

Anyone here pick up this cd? Any WallFlower fans or listeners here? Let me know.

-MF