Music : 14 Shades of Grey
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0075596288224
Format: Enhanced, Explicit Lyrics
Label: Elektra / Wea
Manufacturer: Elektra / Wea
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Elektra / Wea
Release Date: May 20, 2003
Sales Rank: 31016
Studio: Elektra / Wea
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Album Description:
Picking up momentum from their last two smash albums, comes their highly anticipated 2003 album 14 Shades Of Grey, featuring fourteen shards of sonic fury and introspective intensity, tempered by songwriting well beyond anything the band has achieved before. Enhanced CD lets you link to the artist's web site. Flip Records.
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The Beatles had the White Album, Metallica, a black album, and now Staind has its gray album. While lumped in with the often indistinguishable nu metal crowd, Staind stands out, thanks in part to memorable ballads, such as the pained and beautiful "It's Been A While" and "Epiphany" from the quartet's 2001 breakthrough Break the Cycle. Their latest represents a natural progression; realizing the commercial potential of the poignant but heavy rock ballad, they've penned a slew of them. The light and cheery "How About You" is radio-ready, while the layered, string-backed "So Far Away," and honest and grateful musing on success, is another get-out-the lighters showcase for singer Aaron Lewis. Lewis's beautiful ode for his baby, "Zoe Jane," a tribute to late Alice in Chains vocalist Layne Staley ("Layne," which intentionally and effectively cops Alice's signature sound), and the grandiose thank-you note "Intro" are more strong, overtly introspective entries in Lewis' sometimes mushy, sometimes touching CD diary. --Katherine Turman
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
The band's fourth album sounds mildly different from "Break the Cycle", and drastically different from "Dysfunction." There are no depressing melodies or hard-hitting lyrics that are found in "Dysfunction" and sometimes in "Cycle", but we do get to see a major maturity from Staind. It may be bad to some fans, but I still admire this band even with the change in sound. 14 Shades of Grey contains the singles "So Far Away," "Price to Play," and "Zoe Jane". All three songs are great to listen to, and the other songs on the album, particulary "Fray", should not be missed.
Grade: A
Rating: -
Every artists album will not be the same. If it was they'd be boring. Granted, i preferred their first two. This one is good. At first i didn't think it was , but after listening more i started to like it. Staind has always been a band with soft vocals and heavy guitars at points. Most bands usually go from the opposite from when they started anyways. Nothing is ever the same. Trust me.
Rating: -
Again , if you don't own the best of CD , buy this one and the other 2
Rating:  -
13 tracks from Staind and only 3 are any good, huge disappointment from a great band. Thank god Chapter V is a great album.
Rating:  -
This CD was some how misfiled in the metal racks of the music store. A mistake, you'd have to think. The heaviest that 14 Shades of Grey gets is in the first song "Price To Play" which curiously was the album's commercial single. Maybe that says something in itself - the heavy stuff is (or used to be) what brought the fans in the door for Staind, not the 3 Doors Down-style rock.
Anyway, the album itself isn't a complete disaster. It hangs together with some reasonable melodies, but there's just a certain sameness, and slowness, that puts this release light years away from Staind's very good album, Dysfunction. Sure, bands mature and grow up, but that doesn't mean they have to put on the brown cardigans.
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