Take Everything

Seventh Day Slumber | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 10, 2009)
• Original Release Date: 2009
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Bec Recordings
• ASIN: B001Q8FSVQ
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #34,241 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Seventh Day Slumber [Take Everything], March 10, 2009

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Kevin Davis "NewReleaseTuesday" (Perkasie, PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Take Everything (MP3 Download)

Seventh Day Slumber has been a Christian rock band I've enjoyed since I first heard "Caroline", "I Believe" and "Oceans From The Rain" from their BEC Recordings debut album "Once Upon A Shattered Life" in 2005. They kicked it up a notch with the rock in "Finally Awake" in 2007, and I listen to "Missing Pages" and "Undone" regularly. All of their songs have a worship component so it is natural for them to release a worship album, "Take Everything" on March 10, 2009. The first thing that caught my eye about the album was the song titles of familiar and amazing worship songs of the past decade. In fact, the best comparison is to fellow BEC artist Kutless and how they recorded worship songs and a few Kutless originals on "Strong Tower" in 2005.

"Take Everything" is a very strong collection of 9 great worship songs by Chris Tomlin ("How Great Is Our God" and "Famous One"), Hillsong ("Mighty To Save", "From The Inside Out", and "Lead Me To The Cross"), Brenton Brown ("Everlasting God"), Matt Redman ("Nothing But The Blood"), Vineyard Worship ("Surrender") and the all-time classic "I Can Only Imagine" by MercyMe. The songs are newly recorded with the rock styling of Seventh Day Slumber and in my opinion includes 5 of the top 50 songs of the decade: "Mighty To Save", "How Great Is Our God", "Everlasting God", "From The Inside Out" and "I Can Only Imagine". The versions of all of the classic worship songs are well made and sung with passion by Joseph Rojas. Personally, I prefer the Hillsong United version of "Lead Me To The Cross" sung by Brooke Fraser and the original Brenton Brown version of "Everlasting God", however the versions of "Surrender" and "Nothing But The Blood" are amazing and add to the original recordings.

There are also 3 original Seventh Day Slumber worship songs including 2 brand new songs "Take Everything" and "Carry Me", which are both great and uplifting songs. The closing song "Oceans From The Rain" is a stripped down recording of the hit song from "Once Upon A Shattered Life" and is a great way to close out a very fun collection of some of the greatest hits in worship of the decade. "Take Everything" is a great companion album to "Strong Tower" by Kutless and a must-have for any fan of Seventh Day Slumber.

1.0 out of 5 stars Typical & Uninteresting--A Disappointment, November 1, 2011

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JBL - See all my reviews

This review is from: Take Everything (Audio CD)

I bought this CD with the idea that I was going to be listening to something more original from this talented band...and I couldn't be further from the truth. They did covers of many well-known worship songs which I find very lacking in creativity. It's almost as if they took the harder genre that they usually play and tried to force it on songs that were never meant for that. It just doesn't work.

I enjoyed their previous release, "Awake", but Seventh Day Slumber seems to have run out of ideas when they made this album. If you like, unoriginal, uninspired, uninteresting, typical Christian music...this is for you.

I'll look for good music elsewhere.

0.5 of 5.0

4.0 out of 5 stars A Good Worship Album, November 1, 2009

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S. Peek (Rocky Mountains, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Take Everything (Audio CD)

Seventh Day Slumber is a band that I have enjoyed for several years. This collection is no exception.

This is a worship CD from start to finish. It contains remakes of several well known songs by others, one of their own previous ones, and some new material.

Some of the tracks that they have included here are absolute classics by other artists. In this category are Chris Tomlin's 'Famous One' and 'How Great Is Our God'. It would be a very tall order indeed to surpass MercyMe in redoing their amazing tune, 'I Can Only Imagine'. Various performers have done 'Everlasting God' before. I think that the one by Lincoln Brewster falls into the unbeatable category.

One cover done here that is better than the original in my opinion is 'Lead Me To The Cross'. There is also a very good one of that done by the Newsboys.

'Oceans From The Rain' is one of their own previous works. It is a superb song. Two new tracks are 'Take Everything' and 'Carry Me'. Both are quite good, but I particularly like the first one.

Overall, this is a good CD, but I would have preferred more original material or at least choosing other worship songs to remake that are not already total classics by others.