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Media Type: CD
Artist: RASCAL FLATTS
Title: ME & MY GANG
Street Release Date: 11/13/2006
Domestic
Genre: COUNTRY

Track Listing

1. Stand
2. What Hurts The Most
3. Backwards
4. I Feel Bad
5. My Wish
6. Pieces
7. Yes I Do
8. To Make Her Love Me
9. Words I Couldn't Say
10. Me And My Gang
11. Cool Thing
12. Ellsworth
13. He Ain't The Leavin' Kind
14. Life Is A Highway

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #719 in Music
• Brand: RASCAL FLATTS
• Released on: 2006-11-17
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Extra tracks

Amazon.com
This fourth effort from the soft-rock-masquerading-as-country band Rascal Flatts moved more than 721,000 copies its first week out, which let the female-friendly trio rub elbows with some mighty heady company. Only four other country artists (Garth Brooks, Shania Twain, the Dixie Chicks, and Tim McGraw) have rolled out numbers like that, and only 24 other acts total (including Eminem, 50 Cent, U2, and Coldplay). So what's the hook, besides Gary LeVox's wounded tenor and Joe Don Rooney's boy-band face? Clearly, it's the songs. Or it usually is. On Me and My Gang, "What Hurts the Most" is the one that'll end up on a tape loop in your head, though "Yes, I Do" memorably frames romantic yearning and regret with ersatz reggae rhythms, and the sexy "Cool Thing" does a slow burn. The problem? New producer Dann ("King of Excess") Huff bloats too many tunes with screaming, by-the-book guitars and general bombast. And despite his über success with Faith Hill and Keith Urban, Huff has never really understood what makes country, well... country. Instead, he insultingly works in a snippet of steel guitar and a couple of family lyrics--e.g., the melodramatic "Ellsworth" is meant to pull the heartstrings of anyone who's seen the cruelty of Alzheimer's--and thinks he's thrown Nashville a bone. Worse, "Backwards" boringly reworks that hoary ol' country joke "What do you get when you play a country song backwards?," the title song is a Big & Rich ripoff, and even God gets dragged in for a half-baked attempt at middle-America resonance ("He Ain't the Leavin' Kind"). C'mon now. Call these boys pop and be done with the pandering. Joe Don's famously photographed derrière got a fairer crack than this. --Alanna Nash

Customer Reviews

Great CD!
Every song on the CD is wonderful...these guys are so talented, and I love every thing they sing...

Great Songs!
I like pretty much all of Rascal Flatt's songs that are on the radio. This C.D. has some of the best of those songs and has some good ones that aren't on the radio and I can get through all of them, unlike with some other CDs where a songs so horrible I have to skip it.

The Rascals are never flat!
Rascal Flatts has, again, produced music that must be considered for a CMA award. Great music