O2

Firehouse | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 7, 2000)
• Original Release Date: November 7, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Spitfire
• ASIN: B00004ZEIC
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #258,180 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Jumpin'

2. Take It Off

3. The Dark

4. Don't Fade on Me

5. I'd Rather Be Making Love

6. What You Can Do

7. I'm in Love This Time

8. Unbelievable

9. Loving You Is Paradise

10. Call of the Night

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars I really WANTED to like this album, but..., September 13, 2001

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C. D'Orso (Sound Beach, NY, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: O2 (Audio CD)

...I just couldn't. I'm a big Firehouse fan. I have all their other albums, and they were the first concert I ever went to (opening for Tesla in 1992). I think CJ Snare has one of the classic hard rock voices of all time. Heck, I'd even name my kid "CJ". And like I say above, I REEEEALLY wanted to like this album. I wanted to crank it up loud as I drove down the Long Island Expressway tonight on my way home from work. But I just couldn't.

There are good tracks, there are bad tracks. "Jumpin'" is fun, albeit cookie-cutter. Actually, most of the tracks are cookie-cutter: "Don't Fade On Me" should be subtitled "(Every Hair Metal Ballad Ever Written)"; "Loving You Is Paradise" should be subtitled "(When I Look Into Your Eyes II)"; "Unbelievable" should be subtitled "(Every Hair Band Hard Rockin' Love Song Ever Written)"; "I'm In Love This Time" and "Call Of The Night" sound like early Motley Crue tracks to me for some reason.

Then we come to "The Dark", which will, I promise you, rank as one of the worst songs EVER. What exactly were CJ and the boys thinking here? I don't know. They try to sound "nu metal," and CJ even RAPS (yes, raps) about e-mail, the "computer age", and "CD-ROMs, DVDs, vinyl LPs and MP3s". Yeah. Not kidding. Sadly, the chorus says it best: "Stay up to speed with technology, or you will be left in the dark."

Is O2 a departure for the band? No, it's a standard FH album. And the fans will buy it, because that's what we do. That's what I did, and occasionally it will find its way into my CD changer for songs like "Jumpin" and "Paradise". (Hey, just because I panned it doesn't mean I don't like the sappy stuff - again, I AM a big fan.)

But if you're undecided about which FH album to add to your collection, click over to "Category 5," which is probably the strongest release they have, top to bottom; or "Good Acoustics," which improves on every original from the first two albums AND adds some very catchy new tunes.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Return of Firehouse!!, November 13, 2000

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Anthony V. Fioravanti (Bensalem, PA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: O2 (Audio CD)

Finally!! The guys from Firehouse have finally followed in the powerful footsteps of Firehouse, Hold Your Fire, and 3. This CD should be titled Catagory 5 instead of the mellow CD that was titled this way. This CD actually puts pressure on Hold Your Fire. The band sound rockin' and tight. CJ's voice sounds great!! Metal/Pop Rock has turned to make a powerful stands again. It seemed that these late 80/early 90 bands were afraid to rock since music has changed to doom and gloom. It's good to hear melodies with power again. Look at the success of Bon Jovi's Crush CD. I hope this new CD, O2, will spawn a tour.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Maybe next time., December 23, 2001

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"dokken6008" (somewhere drinking decaffeinated tea.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: O2 (Audio CD)

After having listened to Firehouse's excellent 'Superhits' compilation I had the highest hopes for the band's latest effort, 02. Well, I have listened to the album three or four times and I am left with nothing to say but that I was very disappointed. The album is average at best, and not at all what I expected from a band that has created so much great music in the past. I wasn't a complete moron listening to this album; I wasn't expecting a greatest hits cd, but what I got was very average music. The musicianship is definitely up-to-snuff; these guys really know how to play their instruments. C.J.'s voice sounds quite good (not his best, though) and Bill Leverty's guitar solos are wonderful. But the lack of creativity in lyrics and music is what really bogs this album down. Leverty's riffs are not that exciting and rather bland, in my opinion. I am definitely a fan of Firehouse's, and I am not going to say that this is a BAD album, but I really wouldn't recommend it to anyone. Anyone just getting into this band let me tell you this: Firehouse is great and if you are just starting to get interested in the group, check out either their self-titled debut or 'Hold Your Fire', their second album. If you want to get what the band is REALLY about in a cheap, short, small, sweet package buy their 'Superhits'. But suffice to say, Firehouse's latest, 02, is NOT terrible, if you do buy it, please skip the third track "The Dark"; it is terrible (please never do this again, Firehouse). My final words are that I wish the band better luck next time because I will be there to support them.