Customer Reviews

Saving Abel

5 star:		(21)
4 star:		(6)
3 star:		(8)
2 star:		(4)
1 star:		(4)

 

 

Wow! I just found a gem. I heard Drowning(Face Down) on the radio, but the DJ didn't identify the song or band. With some research I found Saving Abel. I've just started listening to them, and I'm blown away. They deliver a mix of driving rock and gritty ballads with just a slight touch of Southern flavor (without the twang) and feature some great guitar work. In fact, the only reason that I didn't rate it 5 stars was that they could have fleshed out a bigger role for the lead guitarist. He delivers some really driving, creative riffs, but I think he's underutilized. I would love to see them live, because I think they might let that big dog eat a little more. Most people have heard Addicted, but as addictive (sorry) as that tune is, it's not the best by any stretch. Drowning, Beautiful You, New Tattoo, In God's Eyes, and Out Of My Face are in your face rock songs with gritty vocals that hold an edge without turning into a screamfest. Meanwhile, songs like She Got Over Me and Loaded Gun provide a change of pace without slowing down or compromising. For those of us old enough to remember the great Southern bands like Lynyrd Skynyrd and the Allman Brothers, it's great to hear a new band with the chops to remind me of them when they were really rocking. This is a cd you must hear!

I decided to check out Saving Abel's cd, because I'm going to be attending a concert where they are the opening band. When I listened to this cd, I was suprised at how good the songs were. New Tattoo, Addicted, 18 Days, Sailed Away, Beautiful Day, Out of My Face, Running from You are all pretty good songs. If more newer bands would put out albums of this quality(more than one or two good songs), I would probably listen to more newer rock. I've seen a couple of reviews that said all the songs sound the same. I'd rather have a rock cd, were all the music sounds like rock instead one song being rock, and the rest just a mixture of styles of music. Saving Abel is the best debut album since Hinder's Extreme Behavior.

I keep reading the negative comments about Saving Abel and how they are in the "arena rock" genre. Wouldn't you want to play in front of thousands of people at a rock concert????? If that type of music is not your style, then don't buy this album. If you want good, ol' fashioned rock music that you can enjoy with a smile on your face, then this is the album for you. The singer's voice is crisp, the music is solid and I love turning up the volume to each and every song on this album!!!

This is a great CD, first song to last. Saw them live at the Beale Street Music Fest in Memphis in May, and they put on such a great show. Jared (lead singer) has an awesome voice, and great stage presence. The CD is well mixed too. If you like rock with good a chorus, you'll be pleased!

If you like bands such as Buckcherry, Silvertide, or Hinder, you will love these guys. I do not see how somone can rate these guys at 0 stars, they are great. The lead singer has an awesome voice, and the band sounds fantastic. Well worth the money for the cd.

Saving Abel is an awesome band and this is a great CD, love it all!

Saving Abel is a bit of a throw back to big hair / arena rock. Other modern day bands that come to mind are Hinder, Nickelback, and Theory of A Deadman. While they may have some weak lyrics and music at times it is due to the overproduction to make things too slick. The band does have promise. Chances are they may never reach their full potential due to the need to meet the requirements for modern day radio, which has no live cultures on it as opposed to a really good yogurt.

There are four tracks that catch my ear and actually stand out. The rest is sort of, well, fodder that I get bored with quickly. Like I said, this is a band that has promise and if they mature as songwriters both lyrically and musically they might just stick around for awhile. Here's hoping they do!

This band is awesome. Best songs on the CD are New Tattoo and Addicted. All the other songs sre great too. Hope they make a new album soon.

In the 90's, music on rock radio included bands like Rage Against the Machine, Alice in Chains, and Tool, with melodic sound, instrumental talent and poetic lyrics like "One great big festering neon distraction/ I've a suggestion to keep you all occupied:/ Learn to swim" The radio now is contaminated with bands such as Hollywood Undead, Theory of a Dead Man, and Saving Abel. With a sound more glossy than most pop songs on the radio in the 90's, stale riffs and cliched lyrics sounding to have been written by a fourteen-year-old. "i'm so addicted to/ all the things you do/ when you're going down on me/ in between the sheets/ all the sounds you make/ with every breath you take/ its unlike anything/ when you're lovin' me"
i listen and cringe with an overwhelming disgust in my stomach paralleling that of a tapeworm or a parasitic worm of some sort, that's growing too large to live in my intestinal tracks any longer.

I beg anyone who enjoys this album to try out bands like Tool, Sublime, Led Zeppelin, Nirvana, Alice in Chains, Pink Floyd, even System of a Down.
Music with actual substance, poetry, and melody; instead of a catchy chorus
that any boy going through puberty could write. I didnt know you could water down Buckcherry and make it even worse

I can't say the album had anything real memeorable, but it's worth a listen. It's something you'd put on when you want to hear something to rock to.