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 IT IS THERE BEST ALBUM!!! Jan 22, 2010
11 SONGS OUT 12 THAS EXCELLENT HARLEY NO ONE,MAKE GREAT ALBUMS NO MORE,
MOST BAND, GET ONE OR TWO GOOG SONG.
SO NEEDLESS TO SAY THEY ROCK!!!!
JANET.
 Three Days Grace Oct 29, 2009
Not a real bad CD, not a real great CD, It has one or two songs that really stand out, and then the rest sound like your typical K-bear played melencholy hard rock songs. the song "This Animal I have Become" is great with a simple but interesting bass line to start the beginning of the cd, a little bit quick, moves around, making it fun to listen to, and there are some simple changes that catch the ear, but the rest the cd really doesn't grab my attention, just by the sound alone I couldn't sit through this cd in one sitting, That would be near torture, for me. Either way I tend to you tube songs before i purchase a CD if i question wether I'll like it or not. be a good thing to do before you purchase it. Yep, get the track listing, you tube the songs, listen to the whole thing decide.
P.S. I usually don't pick out singles, but often I find that I like another song a lot more on the CD that most people won't even be aware of, the case was not so this time.
Amazing album! Oct 04, 2009
The people that complain about these lyrics "not suitable for children", "dark". What do you expect? It talks about that in the description! Don't hate on it when it says that right there in your face.
Anyways, This was an amazing album to listen to. It fit most of my years in junior high and high school perfectly.
Strongest CD yet... Oct 02, 2009
In June 2006, rockers Three Days Grace released their fantastic and strongest CD yet with their sophomore album, One-X.
Anyone who has ever been in a horrible relationship, (especially one that has just recently ended), can relate to the lyrics in these songs. Angry? Frustrated? Depressed? Feeling hopeless? Just got dumped? Just dumped someone else? There's a song on here for every downing emotion, letting you know that you're not alone in your misery.
If you're not a big Three Days Grace fan and you want to be, this is a great album to start out with. Their self-titled debut CD was decent enough, with such hits as "Just Like You" and "I Hate Everything About You", which put them on the map, but the real meat of their career is on One-X.
Below is a brief description of each track on the album, with a numerical rating.
Track 1: It's All Over--(7)--TDG come out with guns blazing on the first track. Frontman Adam Gontier spreads his gritty voice over the darkened lyrics of this song, in which the subject is ruining their life with drugs and alcohol and Gontier can only sit back and watch them destroy themselves.
Track 2: Pain--(10)--an excellent angsty song when you need one. Dole out the pain, because hurting is better than not feeling anything at all when you become so numb and jaded.
Track 3: Animal I Have Become--(9)--chances are, you've probably seen the music video for this song where Gontier turns into a freakish looking creature while the band rocks out behind him. This song is a metaphor for becoming something you truly don't want to become, but have no control over it taking over you anyway.
Track 4: Never Too Late--(9)-- a hopeful song that it's not too late to turn everything around, even when you think it is. When you're in the deepest, darkest pit of despair and you can only think about ending it all, you need to realize that it's not too late--it never is, as long as you're breathing. You can still fix what went wrong if you just try.
Track 5: On My Own--(9)--a truly sad part ballad/part rocker about regretting when things went wrong in a former relationship and wishing you could just walk it off, forget it, but you can't--you just regret too much. However, despite that, you'll stand up and try to move on, live life on your own now. There's no saving the relationship now, so like it or not, it's time to move on without her.
Track 6: Riot--(8)--a great song for when you're seething angry over something. Somebody made you feel angry, used up, ripped off, stepped on and you're going to fight back. To hell with them all! Riot against them!
Track 7: Get Out Alive--(7)--don't depend on others to keep you going. If you want to get out alive, you're going to have to hold on for your life. Do it for yourself and depend only on yourself 'cause others will only let you down.
Track 8: Let It Die--(10)--a relationship gone wrong, she says he didn't try, but he didn't mean to let it die--he just fell out of love with her. He tried as hard as he could while he could, but the motivation left him. It was good in the beginning, but the beginning doesn't last forever.
Track 9: Over and Over--(8)--he tries as best he can to pull himself away from her. He knows this situation isn't good for him, yet he keeps falling for her over and over again. He's tried to live without her, but when he succeeds, he feels dead inside. He needs her to survive.
Track 10: Time of Dying--(8)--he's dying right now without her but he will survive until she can be by his side again. He'll wait for her because he only feels alive when she's beside him.
Track 11: Gone Forever--(10)--absolutely fantastic rock ballad about break-up denial. He'll go out, he'll drink, get in some fights, be completely miserable, but he'll tell himself that he's better off and happier without her in a failed attempt to fool himself.
Track 12: One-X--(5)--the only weak track on the entire CD. A song about how everything we've been through connects us all, life or death situations, depression, everything. You think no one has ever felt the way you do and so does everyone else, which makes us all One(-X).
Overall album rating: 8.5
I'm pleased (and a little shocked) to say; "there is not a single fault to be found"... Oct 01, 2009
Ok, so I just reviewed Three Days Grace's debut album yesterday, and I gave it a pretty good grade, despite the minor flaw I picked up on (the lack of a fresh feeling or originality). `One X', Three Days Grace's sophomore album, doesn't really bring anything new to the table, but it perfects everything that they attempted on their debut, delivering an album that is nearly perfect. I mean, while there is certainly things they could have done to elevate the material and add layers of newness to it, there is not a single track that `needs' anything else.
It's kind of funny, because I was listening to this on iTunes the other day and looking at the grade that I gave each song, and this is the ONLY album I have that I gave 5 stars to every track. The album is not the best I have, nor is it any where near my favorite; and there are plenty of other albums that have much, MUCH stronger material, but this is one of the only albums that is really blemish free; consistent and engaging from track to track.
I can't complain about anything, nor would I wish a change on anything.
So, how do you review an album without a single true `standout', beings that each and every track is pretty much as good as the one that came before and the one that comes after it?
Those who enjoyed the aggressive nature of tracks like `I Hate Everything About You' and `Burn' will really sink their teeth into `Animal I Have Become' and the album opener `It's All Over', both of which are stunning examples of hard hitting riffs and catchy lyrics. `Time of Dying' is another in this vein, aggressive yet there is an accessible quality that makes it easy to get into.
You just want to chant these songs in your car at the top of your lungs.
Radio friendly `Never Too Late' got a lot of play and became an instant fan favorite, and it's easy to understand why. It's a powerful and touching track that makes good use of the bands ability to make the morose compelling. If there is anything I could point out as a so-called flaw it would be that the band seems to have a one-track mind when it comes to subject matter (depression and suicide top the list), but thankfully they create a new feeling with each track, so it never really feels like rehashed territory, even though it is.
`Riot' is probably my favorite song on the album; the chorus alone is like the catchiest thing I've ever heard (and the redundancy is NOT a deterrent as it was on their debut album). `Pain' was one of the first tracks I `fell for', but incessant radio play kind of killed it a bit for me. That said; it is still fantastic.
A nice thing about this album is that Three Days Grace embrace a sense of melodic texture on their songs, giving us some mellow tracks much like `Wake Up' off their debut. `Get Out Alive', `Over and Over' and `On My Own' are standouts in that regard. `Get Out Alive' is beyond spectacular; one of my personal favorites. There is a really nice commercial (I know that sounds bad, but I don't mean it that way) quality to tracks like `Let It Die' and `Gone Forever'. They are very accessible songs, both of which are clear `singles' so it's odd to me that neither was ever selected; for I would have thought they would have been better received than `Animal I Have Become' (not that it was poorly received, but these songs just scream "PLAY ME ON THE RADIO"). `Gone Forever' has a tinge of Weezer here that I just eat up. I've never been a huge fan of Weezer, but they remind me of them, in all the right areas.
The title track, which closes out the album, is probably the weakest song here, which is a bit of a downer, beings that I really like it when a band or musical artists goes out with a bang, but the song is still very solid.
So, like I said, not a sour note here; seriously. If you liked their debut album then you will devour this one for it takes their potential and completely runs with it, offering an album that is a perfected variation of their debut. I only wish they hadn't squandered that potential with their third album (such a major disappointment), but I'll get into that on another review.
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