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Track Listing
1. This Is How a Heart Breaks
2. Lonely No More
3. Ever the Same
4. I Am an Illusion
5. When the Heartache Ends
6. Something to Be
7. All That I Am
8. Problem Girl
9. Fallin' to Pieces
10. My, My, My
11. Streetcorner Symphony
12. Now Comes the Night
| Details | | Contributing artists: | John Mayer | | Producer: | Matt Serletic | | Distributor: | WEA (Distributor) | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
This is a DualDisc, which contains a CD on one side of the disc and a DVD on the other.
Personnel include: Rob Thomas (vocals, piano); Heitor Pereira, Jeff Trott, John Mayer , Mike Campbell, Wendy Melvoin, Kevin Kadish (guitar); Hasan Isakut (kanun); Dan Willis (duduk); Frank London (shofar); Brandon Fields (saxophone); Gary Grant (trumpet); Reginald Young (trombone); Matt Serletic (keyboards); Mike Elizondo (bass guitar); Gerald Hayward (drums); Greater Anointing, Anika Ellis, Cassidy (background vocals).
Recording information: Hit Factory, New York City; Conway Studios, Los Angeles, California; Bicoastal Music, Ossining, New York; Henson Studios, Hollywood, California.
When Matchbox Twenty's first album became a hit, some critics lumped the band in with flash-in-the-pan rock acts of the day. What these early naysayers missed, of course, is that in vocalist Rob Thomas, Matchbox Twenty had one of the finest mainstream pop/rock songwriters in the business. Not only did Thomas rack up a string of hits with the Florida group, but he also co-penned "Smooth" from Santana's Grammy-winning 1999 comeback album, SUPERNATURAL.
With SOMETHING TO BE, his solo debut, Thomas pulls out all the stylistic stops, revealing that Matchbox Twenty's alternative-rock format provided a somewhat limited forum for his considerable talents. "Lonely No More" mixes an insistent dance beat with an insanely catchy chorus that sounds straight out of the boy-band textbook. The title track is a sly lyrical dig at poseurs of all stripes, backed by an 1980s electro-funk groove, while the burbling synths and Eastern percussion of "All That I Am" recall the world fusion experiments of Peter Gabriel and David Byrne. An ambitious effort by a guy who knows his way around a hit single, SOMETHING TO BE is the sound of an artist breaking out.
Industry Reviews
3 stars out of 5 - [T]he fare here is significantly spicier, with Latin and even funk undertones.
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