3 Doors Down - Seventeen Days (2005)

3 Doors Down - Seventeen Days
(2005)



“SEVENTEEN DAYS” is 3 Doors Down third studio album, and there follow up to 2002's “AWAY FROM THE SUN”.

THE BAND: The majority of mid-teens in 2005, were listening to 3 Doors Down. And thats what I was in 2005. I was 15 and into the modernized soft-and-easy listening rock. 3 Doors Down offered plenty of love songs with some heavier/power chord type tracks. It was the safe way to make it in the business and there were plenty of bands doing it and there’s plenty still doing it. 5 years ago, I fell into the trap of bands like these guys and I loved them.

Today, I don’t mind 3 Doors Down, especially if having to pick between the many bands similar to these guys. Bands like Nickelback, Three Days Grace, Seether, etc. But with all the music to pick from, why in the hell would I listen to them.

THE ALBUM: This is the only 3 Doors Down album I have and am not sure where it ranks as being a “good” 3DD album or a “bad” one. To me, it is just another mediocre modern rock album with a few listenable songs.

1. Right Where I Belong - This starts the album out fast with a definite flow. One of the better tracks on the album with a cool sounding guitar riff. I love to hear these bands adding in more guitar solos. This solo has a nice rythym and flow to it.
2. It’s Not Me - Track #2 takes it down a notch. The song seems bland and its hard to pick out anything to comment about. The guitar solo and outro shows the song has a little life though.
3. Let Me Go - The first single. The chorus really has a nice flow and kind of catches you knodding your head along with it. The fact that this was single #1 shows that there isn’t gonna be too much else of anything to come.
4. Be Somebody - My third favorite track on the album, Be Somebody’s lyrics are pretty good. They have that country like story telling theme and I like it. A little bit on the cheesy side though. The song seems to always be on the verge of exploding into heavy but it just never does. It stays in a rather boring speed.
5. Landing In London - No doubt, my favorite 3 Doors Down song, Landing In London Feat. Rock legend Bob Seger. The track has some beautiful symphony’s and a soothing guitar. It tells a story of lovers split apart and the lonliness both feel. Another guitar solo, the best on the album, rips into the outro which is pretty powerful. A 3-star song on my iTunes, and I have been known to listen to this song on occasion, which isn’t the case with any other 3DD songs.
6. The Real Life - Another slow peice; one of the worst tracks on the album.
7. Behind Those Eyes - Behind Those Eyes is one of 3DD’s songs that makes you think that maybe 3DD could surprise us all and release something not bad; Landing In London does the same. It was used as WWE’s Wrestlemania 21's theme and is a pretty rocking tune in my opinion. The vocals and guitars seem to combine to make a killer chorus and the drummer seems to finally show up for the album. This isn’t to far behind Landing In London in being my favorite 3DD song.
8. Never Will I Break - A song, that I would classify as a filler.
9. Father’s Son - At this point in the album you start to think you’ve heard this song before. The guitars seem to be used over and over and the arrangement repeats itself over and over again.
10. Live For Today - They must of thought there were too many softer songs on the album so they threw together this piece of ****.
11. My World - * See Tracks #8 & 9*
12. Here By Me - As an acoustic fan, I didn’t mind this song. The simplicity of the instruments and lyrics mix to make a “cute little song”. I’m sure this has been somebodys wedding song at some point.

FINAL COMMENTS: One thing that tends to get real old for me is how safe the bands are; it’s the same old ****. The album begins fast, gets slow, gets fast, etc. There’s nothing new and no experimenting. Every song is the same routine of verse, chorus, verse, etc. and its hard to tell the difference between the tracks many times. This album is listenable, but for someone like me, I find myself getting bored and I start craving some better love songs off GNR’s Use Your Illusions albums.

RATING: 3.5/10

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Racing Metro 92 11-36 Leinster

Racing Metro 92 (11) 11
Try: Vakatawa Pen: Fernandez
Leinster (21) 36
Tries: Nacewa, O'Brien, Sexton 2, O'Driscoll Cons: Sexton 4 Pen: Sexton

Isa Nacewa touches down for the opening try in Paris
Leinster secured a home quarter-final in the Heineken Cup after a bonus point victory in Paris on Friday night.
The visitors led 21-11 at the break thanks to tries from Isa Nacewa, Sean O'Brien and Jonathan Sexton with Virimi Vakatawa touching down for Racing.
Sexton sealed the bonus point with a 62nd-minute try and Brian O'Driscoll completed a fine Leinster display with the fifth try.
Fly-half Sexton finished with 21 points as Leinster topped Pool 2.
Racing were out of contention for a place in the last eight but they made a bright start.
Juan Martin Hernandez fired over a penalty before Dan Scarbrough broke from his own half before being held up close to the Leinster line.
The visitors cleared and were soon into their stride with Nacewa going over from Shane Horgan's pass for a converted try on 11 minutes.
Hernandez missed a penalty four minutes later but Vakatawa won the high ball from the restart and burst down the line for a try, which Hernandez failed to convert.
Leinster surged clear with two tries in five minutes, staring with O'Brien darting over from an Issac Boss lay-off before Gordon D'Arcy set up Sexton to sprint to the line.
Sexton converted both tries to make it 21-8 although Fernandez reduced the gap with a penalty four minutes from half-time.
It was a tight affair at the start of the second half but Leinster took control after Sexton's penalty on 54 minutes.
The fly-half secured the bonus point eight minutes later, going over from Nacewa's pass before adding the conversion.
Sexton was kicking another conversion in the 68th minute, seconds after O'Driscoll charged over from O'Brien's lay-off.
The match fizzled out in the later stages as Leinster eased up with the job already completed.
Racing Metro 92: D Scarbrough, B Fall, V Vakatawa, A Masi, J Saubade; J Hernandez, N Durand [capt], J Brugnaut, G Arganese, S Zimmermann, S Dellape, F van der Merwe, R Vaquiin, B Le Roux, A Galindo.
Replacements: M Loree for Hernandez (55), F Steyn for Durand (70), A Lo Cicero for Brugnaut (55), B Noirot for Arganese (50), B Sa for Zimmermann (55), L Nallet for Dellape (57), J Cronje for Vaquiin (60), A Battut for Le Roux (40).
Leinster: I Nacewa; S Horgan, B O'Driscoll, G D'Arcy, L Fitzgerald; J Sexton, I Boss; C Healy, R Strauss, M Ross; L Cullen (capt), N Hines; R Ruddock, S Jennings, S O'Brien.
Replacements: F McFadden for Horgan (40), E Reddan for Boss (63), H van der Merwe for Healy (40), J Harris-Wright for Strauss (45), C Newland for Ross (71), D Toner for Hines (75), D Ryan for Jennings (75).
Att: 10,000
Referee: Greg Garner (England)