Once Upon a Time

Feeling Left Out | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 6, 2005)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: CDBY
• ASIN: B0002N4XPS
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #629,657 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A hidden Gem ..., July 5, 2005

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nikkie (S.L.O) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Once Upon a Time (Audio CD)

This artist is very heartfelt and paints a picture perfectly . This artist has so many good songs and i can pretty much promise you can relate to them .

Check him out on purevolume . He is the hidden gem and you will be pleasantly surprised.

A fantastic cd from him is ''two to the chest to remember, one to the head to forget '' . Words don't do any of this justice . You have to hear it for yourself .

5.0 out of 5 stars Awsome seller, great place to buy from, March 10, 2010

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Amazing product. Not a scratch on the cd. They were awsome on the shipping and very helpful in helping with any problems that I had. A suggested place to buy from.

4.0 out of 5 stars Impeccable acoustic emo, October 20, 2009

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M. LeFevers (Phoenix, AZ, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Two To The Chest To Remember One To The Head To Forget (MP3 Download)

Feeling Left Out is a band I followed all the way through high school, downloading each of their EPs as they came out. Stumbling across this record, I was elated to see that they have collected all of those old EPs into one full-length album.

It should be said, right out the gate, that Feeling Left Out plays a very particular type of music. It's by-the-books acoustic emo, to be sure, very much in the mold of Dashboard Confessional or early Spill Canvas. No one will ever accuse this record of being groundbreaking, or genre-defying. But for my money, I would definitely accuse it of belonging at the top of the sad-acoustic heap. There were likely a million other bands doing this in the early 2000s, but few were doing it this well. And let's face it -- if you aren't the type that goes in for emotion-baring acoustical singalongs, you probably never made it past the band name (or album title) in the first place.

The Dashboard-type genre conventions are there -- acoustic guitars, high tenor vocals, and lyrics so soul-baring as to be almost uncomfortable at times. But what stands out about this record is the talent brought to these well-worn attributes. The lyrics range from merely good to sometimes brilliant, especially on some of the newer songs. "Enough About Me" is a hilariously dead-on treatment of the emotional highs and lows of online messaging, and "Unspoken Word" is a heart-wrenching and eloquent letter to an unborn child. "Gravy Fries and Dirty Lollipops" wins the prize for best song conceit -- it's a letter written to one of the band members by an almost-flame, set to music to create a poignant song of chances missed. The guitar, too, is flawless -- breaking out at times from the standard strumming-pattern of acoustic emo to deliver stunning fills and arpeggios. Far more effort is put into the six-string work on this record than was probably expected or necessary for this style, and I applaud them for it.

All things equal, there are few bands nailing the heart-on-sleeve aesthetic this admirably. I can't imagine high school without these songs, and while I'm older and wiser now than when I discovered this band, I can still think of very few CDs I would recommend more highly to any lovesick teenager out there -- or anyone who remembers what it was like to be one.