From: none@none.com   
      
   The new album is doing quite well -- it debuted at no. 3 on the   
   Billboard Hot 200 album chart today, the highest new entry for a BB   
   album ever.   
      
   First of all, I think the very existence of this album is a miracle, and   
   I'm very grateful to have it!   
      
   Now that I've had a chance to play it multiple times, I really like this   
   album. I love the title song and "Think About the Days" (stunning!), and   
   "Isn't It Time" has become an instant earworm -- I keep waking up with   
   it running in my head. "Shelter" is another earworm, especially Jeff's   
   chorus part.   
      
   As for the last three tracks, it's great to hear Al singing the lead on   
   "From There to Back Again" and there are some gorgeous harmonies on PCH.   
   "Summer's Gone" is my stumbling block. It's pretty, but it just doesn't   
   work for me as an album ending. I keep wanting to hear something else   
   after it, to complete the album in my mind (another "Southern   
   California"-type song, for example). The way it is now, it feels   
   unfinished, without closure. (I suppose that could be intentional, so   
   that we'd be left wanting more.)   
      
   Emdeeh   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)