There’s a Fear in Me it’s Not Showing

On their last album, 3 Doors Down dueted with Bob Seger which was fitting because their first two albums were chalk full of tunes that will soon become old time rock and roll. The only problem was that last album was bland; sounding what a 3 Doors Down tribute band may come up with. It may not have helped that the album’s title, Seventeen Days, referred to the amount of time the band took to record that album. It is not much more promising that their latest album is self titled.

With the uninspiring title comes an uninspiring batch of songs that, much like the last album, don’t really deviate at all from what you would expect from the band. You imagine the band sitting around saying, “Okay we need a track for the modern rock stations like Loser,” then write It’s Not My Time. “Alright, how about one for traditional rock stations like Duck and Run,” and out comes Train. “Now we need to slow it down for the adult contemporary charts similar to Be Like That,” and they go and record Let Me Be Myself. “Great, nine more filler songs and we are done.” No wonder it doesn’t take them too long to record.

That is not to say these songs are bad and you certainly will not be changing the station when these songs come on your radio format of choose, but it isn’t a group of songs you really want to listen to all together in one sitting. But you have to wonder what possessed the band to write Citizen/Soldier for the National Guard with the cheesy lyrics about people in the Guard to use in a national campaigned when they should have just co-opted the much stronger Duck and Run would be just as fitting and a much better song to boot.

The closest the band comes to breaking their shell is on Your Arms Feel Like Home that could have become an epic if they crossed that preverbal line. While She Don’t Want the World has a haunting drum that is almost as creepy as their first hit Kryptonite but still could have gone further with the song.

Song to Download - Your Arms Feel Like Home

3 Doors Down gets a on my Terror Alert Scale.