III

Family Force 5 | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 18, 2011)
• Original Release Date: 2011
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Tooth & Nail
• ASIN: B005FT2MNO
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Music
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (35 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #32,456 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Can You Feel It

2. Paycheck

3. Wobble

4. You Got It

5. Mamacita

6. Tank Top

7. Not Alone

8. Dang Girl

9. Love Gone Wrong

10. Get on Outta Here

Editorial Reviews

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews

19 of 25 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars And How Long Did This Take? October 19, 2011

By jrsmith

Format:Audio CD

Let me get this straight. I am a huge FF5 fan. I've been to 15 of their live concerts and have listened to their older albums non-stop. I completely understand the FF5 music philosophy crazy,fun, nonsense music...But then there is III. It pains me to say this but the album is terribly bad. It may be okay for middle school girls but I think this album is really going to damage them with their original fan base. In how many interviews did they say that the were returning to a more BUFPB sound? The only song that is remotely similar is the opener Can You Feel It. This band was not meant for the mainstream pop sound that they failed at creating in III. Why did they give up a sound that everyone fell in love with?

35 of 51 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars Newest isn't greatest.... October 18, 2011

By Marky

Format:Audio CD

Given the fact that they've had 3 years since their last new album, expectations were set high for this album. Song by song...

1 Can You Feel It - decent track. The music starts off heavy. the lyrics are pretty aweful, ranging from talking about bubble wrap and other stuff that is so irrelevant. Rating this one higher than most simply on music alone. I'd give it a 4/10

2 Paycheck - this is one of the few tracks where the lyrics aren't focused on a woman or what she's wearing. The chorus doesn't really fit with the verses, and the music isn't their best. 4/10

3 Wobble - Ugg. Most of us fans have been listening to the 3 song sampler since early this spring, and this song is on it. Mad props for putting Steve Jobs in there though. When it comes down to it, they are just trying to rhyme a bunch of words until they can get to the chorus about wobble and bobble. Have hated this song since it came out. I don't wanna crack a half smile like Mona Lisa. This was officially the first single from the album and tanked! Only got to like #27 or so - which is pretty low for the guys. Sorry. 1/10

4 You Got It - Another of the early release tracks. This song is all about a girls looks and nothing else. Pure out physical looks is all it's about - who cares about your personality, at least you're hot! 2/10

5 Mamacita - Another song about the ladies and partying. Junk in the trunk! Seriously just seems like they were just trying to come up with different ways to call a woman hot. The music really isn't that good on this track. During the flamenco breakdown whoever keeps saying Ey Ey Ey is sooo awkward. Pure out garbage. 1/10

6 Tank Top - I used to think that Topsy Turvy was the worst song that FF5 ever did. Then I heard this song. Awefuly synth music that's way too slow to dance to, lots of autotuning, "I see hot people, I see not people" - come on. The only redeeming factor on this song is they used this one for the remix contest - the "Dirty Sic1ly Remix" is worth a listen to on YouTube. Original version - 1/10

7 Not Alone - Well, after so many generic/lame songs, here's the sole shining star on this album. A ballad! The lyrics are so open and honest. Their voices are front and center, no autotuning, the music takes a back seat as well, it's musically good, but you can tell they wanted to the words on this one to be the focus. I love it when they are clever and make cool party music, but I absolutely love this one and it's one of my favorites by them already! 10/10

8 Dang Girl - Ohh, this song. Another of the early release songs. Dang girl, you bang girl. I absolutely cannot stand this song. Burning Ham? Autotuning gone crazy here. This version is slightly different than the pre-release version, but only adds instrumentation in a few spots. 1/10

9 Love Gone Wrong - By the second line they're already using the word ghetto! It's another song about the ladies. I do really like the chorus on this one - musically it's very catchy, but the verses aren't that great. Hopefully a remix comes out where they delete the verses and just connect chorus after chorus. 6/10

10 Get On Outta Here - OK, so my idea for the last song with the chorus repeating over and over, scratch that as that is what this song is for the entire last two minutes. This song is all about telling someone that they are not invited to a party and trying to get him to leave. It's a bunch of put downs. Fun song in concert with the "woop woop" part, but a turd of a way to end the album. Cool video though - was there at SonShine when they filmed it. 2/10

I am really hoping that this album grows on me as the thought of them taking another 3 years to come up with an album scares me. You aren't able to tell from this review, but I'm a HUGE fan of FF5. I loved the style difference between the first two albums, but this one just isn't my cup of tea. One of the only saving graces for most of these songs is that they may be fun to jump around and get crazy to, but listening to over and over again, not so much. This album won't be getting tons of plays by me, except for "Not Alone"....

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars A step down in quality, but not a failure. November 18, 2011

By Tithenion

Format:Audio CD

III was highly anticipated by many Family Force 5 fans, so it had a lot to live up to. While not a bad album, in many ways it failed to live up to those expectations.

We were told that they would be going back to the crunk style of Business Up Front/Party in the Back. While the first song does open up with a hard rock/crunk sound, that doesn't stick past that song. Instead, we have a large variety of styles, including influences from rap, R&B, club, pop, and even Spanish. While I was hoping for more of a return to the style from their first album, I must give the guys props for being able to produce such a wide variety.

Before I comment on the lyrics, I must state that I understand that FF5 has always had some ridiculous and nonsensical lyrics in their songs. However, there were also those that had deeper meaning, such as "Face Down", "Replace Me". Even "Radiator" is an example that shows you can have both sides of that coin. In III, the lyrics seem to take a hit and suffer from being more shallow and repetitive. If there were some songs with deeper meaning scattered among these I might not criticize them as much, but when the sole song that comes close to reaching some deep meaning is "Not Alone", I feel like they missed the mark. Even that song doesn't seem to give hints to their beliefs like the ones I mentioned from other albums, which is disappointing. However I do have to give credit to "Paycheck" to being both fun and hitting close to home for a lot of people in rough financial times.

Perhaps my biggest complaint for this album is that it rings in with only ten songs coming to just over 33 minutes. For three years since their last main album, I can't help but be disappointed. Not only that, but within a week after the release of the album, the band announced III.V. At this point we don't know whether this will be something along the lines of the Diamond edition of Business Up Front/Party in the Back or if it will be a shorter CD with just the new songs. Either way, I can't help but feel ripped off knowing that they already had more songs at least close to being done that could have been released on this album.

Having said all this, I want to reiterate that this is not a bad album. Upon first listening to it I was more disappointed than I am now, but it has grown on me and I have listened to it quite a few times. True, it doesn't have the quality of their previous albums, but it still has good qualities. Songs like "Love Gone Wrong", "Mamacita" and "You Got It" are fun and catchy songs, and "Not Alone" is unique in the album for being the more meaningful ballad. Better quality lyrics and more songs could have helped the album, but I'll take what I can get for now.

I look forward to what III.V may add, but I won't be willing to spend full price for just a few more songs if that turns out to be the deal. Here's to hoping that the next main album from the Family will address the issues with this album and be able to rival their past works.