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The Better Life (CD)

By: 3 Doors Down (Artist)

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3 Doors Down Artist Snapshot:

With the assistance of its contemporaries Creed and Days Of The New, 3 Doors Down helped keep the grunge flag flying in the mid-1990s in the wake of the demise of genre founders like Nirvana and Soundgarden. Combining the mammoth, sludgy riffs of the aforementioned bands with a dose of pop melody and an eye on the top 40 charts, the band first gained public attention with its debut release THE BETTER LIFE.

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DISC 1 for The Better Life (CD) Album By 3 Doors Down (Artist)
1   Kryptonite
2   Loser
3   Duck And Run
4   Not Enough
5   Be Like That
6   Life Of My Own
7   Better Life
8   Down Poison
9   By My Side
10   Smack
11   So I Need You
 

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Review

Entertainment Weekly (6/2/00, pp.78-9) - "...Shows the boys have assiduously studied the Metallica/Pearl Jam/Creed oeuvres. At its swaggering best, LIFE crackles with energy and crowd-pleasing choruses..." - Rating: B-
Q (12/00, p.136) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...A bolt-together Stone Temple Alice in Pearl Jam's Soundgarden hybrid....this is rock for people who wear woolen muscle vests and worry about hair products..."

Title Note

3 Doors Down: Brad Arnold (vocals, drums); Matt Roberts, Chris Henderson (guitar); Todd Harrell (bass).

Additional personnel: Kevin Paige (keyboards).

Recorded at Ardent Studios, Memphis, Tennessee.

"Kryptonite" was nominated for the 2001 Grammy Award for Best Rock Song.

The success story of 3 Doors Down starts typically enough. An aggressive and unrelenting phone campaign to radio stations for their breakaway single "Kryptonite" snowballed into a showcase at New York's legendary CBGB's and a deal with Universal Records. The Escatawpa, Missouri quartet offers a sound that is grounded in '90s alternative rock but doesn't ignore the contributions of hard-rock music's foundations from the '60s and '70s.

"Loser" finds 3 Doors Down using Alice In Chains-influenced minor-key vocal harmonies and acoustic-then-electric dynamics. In "Duck and Run," vocalist/lyricist Brad Arnold urges fans to remain positive despite life's trials. The delicate balance of human relations is explored in "Not Enough." In "Be Like That," Arnold sings of a daydreamer's envy, sounding like a heavier Matchbox 20. Though the band began as a power trio, with Arnold on drums and vocals, 3 Doors Down added a second guitarist and a drummer to fatten its sound for THE BETTER LIFE.

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5 out of 5 stars Classic record, May 12, 2008
By Sven
This is a great record from 8 years ago!!!! Can you believe its been that long?! "Kryptonite" has been stuck in my head ever since. Great album.

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