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Once Upon a Time

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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 .

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.

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.

The final album from this acoustic duo, now Joe is doing his solo thing and has his own cd out, you should check that out too... But anywho FLO was a really good duo and the two guitars meshed really well on this cd and Joe's vocals are as heartfelt as ever. I actually enjoy this album more than the full length, which was really just a combination of two earlier eps. I dunno, it just seems the songwriting on this album was more mature and refined. All the best of luck to Joe in his new endeavours and if you read this far then buy the album!