Track Listing

1. When You're On Top
2. How Good It Can Get
3. Closer To You
4. Everybody Out Of The Water
5. Three Ways
6. Too Late To Quit
7. If You Never Got Sick
8. Health And Happiness
9. See You When I Get There
10. Feels Like Summer Again
11. Everything I Need
12. Here In Pleasantville

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #11410 in Music
• Released on: 2002-11-05
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.com
Wallflowers frontman Jakob Dylan may have learned the art of ambiguity from his famous father, but as he opens up on the group's bittersweet fourth album he emerges as a true individual. The band's first release since the departure of guitarist Michael Ward, who came on board to make the four-million-selling 1996 album, Bringing Down the Horse, finds Dylan raking over the details of his personal life in close detail. "I think I made a mistake / I think I pushed when you said away," he sings on "If You Never Got Sick," while using blunt tracks like "Too Late to Quit" and "Health and Happiness" to get in further jabs at the woman who did him wrong. To accompany this outpouring of emotion, the band infuses its midtempo Americana with fizzing electronic effects and hard backbeats. It's the Wallflowers' most adventurous and rewarding album yet. --Jaan Uhelszki

Customer Reviews

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If you are a The Wallflowers' huge fan like I am, then you'll probably share my frustration everytime I praize their work, even knowing few people really know about their terrific songs. But I guess it's better this way: Jakob Dylan is a complete artist, and I don't think that the mainstream would improve him. RED LETTER DAYS is full of chilling and wonderful composicions, and we can feel how energetic and inspired The Wallflowers can sound, listening every single song. If you still don't believe that you should discover them, please listen CLOSER TO YOU... it'd be a heartwarming journey, followed by EVERYBODY OUT OF THE WATER, a superb rock song. And be prepared: their last album, REBEL, SWEETHEART, is even better.

Long Live Rock and Roll
Red Letter Days is an example of great musicianship. The song writing is powerful, and the vocals are, as always, distinct. The best part is how the whole album listens from start to finish. If you're looking for music to get deep into, this is it. It had my playing air guitar and singing along. Great fun for a 24 year old! ;)

I feel like I am taking crazy pills!!!
OK, let me say that I own every Wallflowers album. I have given a five star rating to every single one of them except this one, which I give a one star rating to. Imagine my shock when I open up the reviews and see so many five star ratings. Hey, that is cool, to each their own, but I don't get it. This album seems sappy and desperate to appeal commercially. I hate to use the phrase "sell-out," but I have to. The word cheesy comes to mind on many songs. I actually felt embarassed listening to some. This is nowhere close to Rebel Heart or Breach or BDTH, not even in the same ballpark. I listen to those albums weekly, this one I took to the used record store (where I bought it) and sold it back. Great band, but this album is really bad, in my opinion. Still a great band and if you like it, more power to you.