Customer Reviews

Foiled for the Last Time

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3 star:		(1)
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While I have great respect for Blue October, this is an unexpectedly exploitative release. Here's why:

1) The live disk is packaged with the original album, which I'm fairly certain at least 95% of the potential audience for this product already own. (Yes, we also get a remastered "Calling You" and two watered-down house remixes of "X Amount of Words." Wake me when they invite Rex the Dog to do a remix: I might just kill to hear that. Oakenfold still bores me to tears.) The price was low enough that I was willing to grant some slack on this one, but then...

2) The live disk has been "sanitized," with no announcement to that effect anywhere on the packaging -- and the editing is not exactly subtle. Not that Furstenfeld swears all that often, but when he breaks out the f-word in "Hate Me" and "Overweight," it's important to the song. The weird part is that the lyrics on the studio disk are preserved intact. GoshDARNit, Universal.

3) The "enhanced" material is a bad joke. The live disk is merely a "CD key" which will take you to a website where you might think you'd be able to wait forever to download a video clip or two -- but you'd be wrong. Still, if you are willing to give some random company your email address and a (fake if you have any sense at all) cell-phone number, you will be redirected to the mother lode: the public area of the official Blue October site. You might want to stick with YouTube.

4) The last straw: there are no fewer than three "FBI Anti-Piracy Warnings" on the back cover alone, plus two on each disk, one of whose font size is actually *larger than the title of the album*. Way to be paranoid, Universal. Keep taking advantage of your artists' fans like this, and you will only have increasing reason to be.

Are these things the fault of the band? Almost certainly mostly not, which is why I'm only subtracting one star for the combined aggravation. A solid live recording of everything from _Foiled_ but "Congratulations" (which clearly can't be done justice without the rather brilliant Imogen Heap singing backup) is not to be taken lightly. Still, I can't help but hope that these guys can leverage their well-deserved success into either better terms or better business partners.

I'm writing this review primarily because I find other reviews on this site are, for the most part, overly critical and analytical. I'm not that way, and I suspect everyone who reads these things deserves more than something that goes WAY too in-depth (not that those are bad for people who are like that).

Plain and simple: I love Foiled, I love live music. Therefore, I love Foiled For the Last Time. I haven't been able to see Blue October in concert yet, but this will suffice until that dream comes true.

One of the things I love about this CD is that the tracks aren't ridiculously long; on some Live CDs I've purchased before, tracks tend to go on for a minute and a half after the music stopped. ... I don't really need to hear fans cheering for that long.

A downside: the censoring. There are around two swears in the entire set lyrics for Foiled, why bleep them out? It's silly. Also, they make their Anti-Piracy statements VERY obvious and in your face--it is printed on each CD, larger than the title of the CD itself! I bought the CD, why bother yelling at me to not download it illegally?

But other than that I definitely recommend this album to anyone who is a fan of Blue October!

I'm a pretty new fan of BO (maybe real fans don't call them that). I finally sprung for this album based on the 3 great radio songs I've heard and decided to go ahead and get the 2 disc version. I'm really glad I did! Every song on the studio album is strong, it's my favorite CD currently. And the live versions of the songs are fantastic, I will definitely go see them if I get a chance. They play with a lot of energy, passion and skill, some of the songs actually sound better live. Not every good band can do that.

The cd arrived in like two days and it was in perfect condition for a used cd. I would buy from this supplier anytime. Thank you!

Like all of Blue October's albums, "Foiled For The Last Time" is heartfelt and beautiful, but unlike all of Blue October's other albums, this one contains two (excellent) remixes of "X-Amount of Words", and an entire bonus disc of lilve performances that will simply blow you away.

OK just by this CD ! you will be amazed at the songs on this...It grows more likeable everytime I have it on...Wonderful lyrics the album is mixed very well. the songs move through the cd wonderfully

Having all this bands' albums, I came to Amazon hoping that there was a new album I hadn't heard about. Well, sorry me, but a live album isn't exactly what I was hoping for. As talented as these guys are, you'd think they could put together a few new tracks. Yeah, I know, a live album can rake in a lot of bucks, but still...

Gimme some new material, kids! Please!!!

Waiting patiently, =B=

I didn't know Blue October before I bought this CD but I am a huge fan now. Great album!

when i got this cd i was pretty excited to listen to it...but only to be disappointed. i thought it was going to be amazing and the new remixes were going to be just as great. don't get me wrong, i love blue october, but i just wasn't feeling this cd too much. i just cant wait until they come out with a new cd...with all new material!

Blue October was meant to record this CD, their best to date. Hopefully, they can keep evolving into the monster band that they are. With Justin's lyrics and the bands music, they should be around for years to come, and only get better and better. Blue October is the Pink Floyd of the year 2000!!! Let's hope they can live up to the hype.................