{"id":1507,"date":"2007-10-21T23:15:19","date_gmt":"2007-10-21T22:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/?p=1507"},"modified":"2007-10-24T22:53:39","modified_gmt":"2007-10-24T21:53:39","slug":"review-matchbox-twenty-exile-on-mainstream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/?p=1507","title":{"rendered":"Review: matchbox twenty &#8211; Exile on Mainstream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been twelve years already, and while keeping a pretty low profile overall (no world fame with screaming fans running behind them), they have managed to score the most #1 hits in the adult contemporary hit lists of all times at the home front. And it&#8217;s not strange, there hasn&#8217;t been one band who has churned out album after album so different from each other, while still having that same instantly grabbing wow-factor kinda quality.<br \/>\nNow this is mostly a greatest hits album, but out of the 6 new songs, 4 already deserve that diamond encrusted life long monster hit &#8211; plaque, that one I only give to the most special songs. That&#8217;s because, once again, they go a new direction (this time a rocking uptempo big band style), but still make it their own. Amazing production value means musically it&#8217;s sound, and vocally is also a non-brainer. Their uniquely sharp and vividly imaginative lyrics suck you in to listen to songs over and over again (for instance &#8220;You&#8217;re bad mood just ties my hands, Turns my cartwheels into head stands&#8221;).<br \/>\nGrading only the new songs, with 66% hit rate (while good albums rarely go above 30%) means it&#8217;s definitely a 4 thumbs up.8\u00c2\u00bd. (Full album. 10-)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been twelve years already, and while keeping a pretty low profile overall (no world fame with screaming fans running behind them), they have managed to score the most #1 hits in the adult contemporary hit lists of all times at the home front. And it&#8217;s not strange, there hasn&#8217;t been one band who has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}