The Lonely Position Of Neutral [Enhanced]

Trust Company | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 23, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Enhanced
• Label: Geffen Records
• ASIN: B000068Q64
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (204 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #51,198 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very catchy, but it's all been done [and heard] before, August 14, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: The Lonely Position Of Neutral (Audio CD)

I see TRUSTcompany's major label debut, THE LONELY POSITION OF NEUTRAL, as an 11-song collection that showcases a blend of the sounds of the most popular rock bands of the past few years. All of the songs are very catchy, well-written, and great fun to listen to, but in the end, this is not a 5-star album. Why? This band draws very heavily from Linkin Park (mainly in the vocal style) and other bands such as Nickelback, Default, etc., that have been popular in the past year or two (many of whom also drew very heavily from bands that had been popular just before that).

All in all, this is a CD that is selling [inexpensively] at most stores, and I'd recommend picking it up. There haven't been all that many impressive albums released this summer for rock fans, and this is definitely worth the price tag. If you enjoyed HYBRID THEORY especially for its melodic sections you will love this, as it really does sound like Linkin Park without the rapper. I normally would give the album only 2 or 3 stars because of this (I have slammed Default's album for practically burning a carbon copy of Nickelback's SILVER SIDE UP), but it's impossible because TRUSTcompany has taken the formula and perfected it with a series of incredibly catchy, fun, and amazing sounding songs.

The best songs on the CD are "Hover," "Running From Me," and the single, "Downfall," in my opinion. The majority of the other songs are also very good.

My advice: as long as you are a fan of the rock of the past year or two, this will be a very good album for you....If you are one of these people and are looking for a groundbreaking record that doesn't sound much like anything out there, though, this is far from what you want. For everyone else, though, give it a try, and you'll find that these copycats have succeeded where I believe the aforementioned groups have miserably failed: in writing songs with "identity" that have varying and impressive melodies and decent lyrics.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is the true 411 on Trust Company, July 29, 2002

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Nikolaos Hazinakis (Parma, Ohio United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Lonely Position Of Neutral (Audio CD)

O.K....Im not going to pretend like I've known about Trust Company for years. The thing I will do is tell it like it is. This CD is the best CD I have bought this year, next to the Vines. If you are looking for variety on this cd, forget about it. But if I hear one more time that Trust Company sounds like Linkin Park.....I will flip out. There is no hip-hop involved, just fine precision strings of bass, guitar, drums, and hard emotional vocals. They sound like a less electronic Stabbing Westward. To be honest, this CD is a different sound.....soon to be copied. Very upfront, very catchy. Many hooks and loops that stick in your head. Its not like anything out now. I can see where the guitars and screaming vocals sound like Linkin Park.....but the truth is..nobody sounds like Trust Company. MTV2 was right about them. They are a new breed of rock and roll. Real melancholy though, but at the same time....healing. The standout songs......"Hover", the first single "downfall", and my all time favorite "deeper into you". This song will soon be radio staple like Puddle of Mudd's Blurry, mark my words. I haven't handed out 5 stars except to Linkin Park's Hybrid THeory, Santan's Supernatural, and Jay-Z's Blueprint....so you know Trust Company is deserving. Please buy this cd, and play endlessly!

Enjoy!!!!!!!!

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best debut since Creed's My Own Prison, July 25, 2002

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R. Pfeil "cartman4president" (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Lonely Position Of Neutral (Audio CD)

I've always said that you can tell a lot about a band by the way they put themselves out into the open. In terms of what I think works the best, going for the subtleness angle usually seems to work. Bands like Slipknot who wear masks and scream and yell and say they hate the world really have no business in the music industry. They are not a band, just a bunch of angry guys that get together and clunk heads. Bands shouldn't wear costumes. Bands shouldn't vomit onstage. Bands should play music, and mean what they say in their words.

Trust Company had me at hello.

I had the opportunity to see this band open for Sevendust (the world's finest band ever) and was very impressed. They had emotion in their songs and got the crowd moving, and they did it without lighting themselves on fire, vomiting on the crowd... All they did was play songs. I bought the CD the day it came out and found that it was not corrupted by recording equipment at all. The lyrics are very good and deal with standing out in a world where it's so hard to do so, as well as dealing with things that all human beings have to go through. It sounds clicheed, but I promise you that it's not because of the simplicity with which they write about it. I believe that the soft-spoken usually have the most depth, and Trust Company really proves this to be true because of how they write their songs.

This band is going places. Their first single "Downfall" will not be their last. This debut is beyond anything I've ever seen. The last debut to have this much promise was Creed's first disc, and look where they are now. Trust Company is a great band, and you don't have to peel off their masks to see that.