Rascal Flatts "Melt" Album
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Title: Melt
Format: Album
Label: Lyric Street
Released: 2002-10-29
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Tracklisting & Lyrics
1.
These Days lyrics »
2.
Too Good Is True lyrics »
3.
I Melt lyrics »
4.
Mayberry lyrics »
5.
Love You Out Loud lyrics »
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Dry County Girl lyrics »
7.
Like I Am lyrics »
8.
You lyrics »
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Fallin' Upside Down lyrics »
10.
Shine On lyrics »
11.
My Worst Fear lyrics »
Reviews
Country music's hottest boy band really doesn't do anything that hasn't already been done just as well or better by earlier country-pop "all-guy" bands like Diamond Rio and Restless Heart. Yet Rascal Flatts' pretty harmonies, so full of painful earnestness and pubescent yearning, are often very affecting, particularly coming from a trio that looks--and often sounds--like its members are still trying to grow their first chest hairs. And now and then, as on Marcus Hummon's rousing "Dry County Girl" and the Nickel Creek-like "Shine On" (cowritten by the three band members), these rascals even show fleeting innovation. But on too many of the remaining nine tracks the trio's youthful exuberance doesn't quite escape the confining shackles of generic production and overly predictable song fare. ~Bob Allen, Amazon.com
Gary LeVox has amazing vocal ability unsurpassed by any other male country singer heard on the charts today. That's why the best songs from Melt are the ballads -- he sings them with such a fiery zeal that you can't help but be transfixed by the titanic sound coming out of the speakers. But that certainly doesn't mean that the up-tempo and quicker songs aren't worth listening to. In fact, the whole 11-song collection is worth listening to over and over. A platinum-selling debut album with a follow-up sophomore album that's as brilliant as the first -- if not more so -- doesn't happen all that often in an industry subject to dozens of newcomers a minute. Their harmonies are musically superior and their songwriting efforts continue to be original and fresh. Rascal Flatts is a band that deserves more than its due. ~Maria Konicki Dinoia, All Music Guide