Reviewed! 3 Doors Down - The Greatest Hits
3 Doors Down
The Greatest Hits
Republic
As with your typical greatest hits collections, 3 Doors
Down’s cleverly titled The Greatest Hits
features all of the best cuts from their entire chart-topping canon, including
tracks from all five of their studio releases. It’s an impressive track list to
be sure; a fact that everyone should have expected when this release was first announced,
one that harkens back all the way to the bands blockbuster debut the Better
Life with a whopping four tracks seeing inclusion, including “Kryptonite,” “Dead
and Gone,” “Be Like That” and the immaculate “Loser,” which is surprising,
considering there’s only nine tracks aside from the three new ones. 2002’s Away From the Sun offers three in “When
I’m Gone,” “Away From the Sun,” and the excellent mid-tempo ballad “Here
Without You,” and the bands two most recent releases, Seventeen Days (“Let Me Go”) and 3 Doors Down (“It’s Not My Time”) surprisingly have just one track each
included here. Regardless, the main selling point of The Greatest Hits is the trio of new cuts, which do not disappoint,
beginning with “One Light,” a song released as a single that could very well be
on the groups’ next collection of hits. And although “There’s a Life” is a bit lackluster
and vanilla, the closing ballad “Goodbyes” makes up for it by 3 Doors Down
doing what they do best – penning a radio ready slow burner akin to some of
their best works, including the afore mentioned “Loser” and “Here Without You.”
Good track list, but what else would you expect from a greatest hits
compilation, especially from a band like 3 Doors Down.
Grade: B
Go Download: “One Light”
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