I wish we all could swim
Posted March 05, 2008
By Nathan,
Although "I wish we all could win" is the title of this CD some of the rejected titles were pretty good. A really good one was "I wish we all could swim", that is right below "I wish I could have my money back". That is the tone of this debut "rock" album by the Afters.
The Afters are no stranger to the airwaves, on the contrary, the Afters have put out several singles plus a pair of hit singles ("you" and "beautiful love"). Anyone who bought this CD excepting this to be a rock album were the victim of the ever increasing broadening "rock" term, but that genre does show up on the title track (more or less) and single "Someday" which is one really cool rock tune. Another real rock song is "the way you are" which is rough but not terrible and it flows nicely into the song "you" a light, slightly annoying (if you listen to the radio too much) worship song.
Some of the album mediocre bright spots are "until the world" which has a decent flow, and "love lead me on", a light rock song. If someone was trying to best compare the Afters to another Christian artist, the music sounds somewhat like Sanctus real, primarily on "love lead me on". The second half of the album is really light, and in fact, boring and amateurish, this shows on songs like "wait", "love make you beautiful", and the worship single "all that I am". The best thing that could be said about the second half of the album is that "thank God I'm not the one" sounds nice. Another interesting thing to note about I wish we all could win, is that the lead vocal sounds different on tracks 6, 9, and 10.
Unfortunately the lyrics are worse than the music. One problem is the recurring theme in the album is how much the Afters love Jesus, on songs "all that I am", "beautiful love", and "until the world" (at least that's what we hope the latter two is about), but shouldn't we be singing about how much Jesus loves us than the other way around? "Someday" is biblically wrong when it says "someday we all win". The worship songs "you" and "the way you are" are barley okay, and "love will make you beautiful" really says nothing other than: "love will make you beautiful". At least the final song is worth listing too.
The lyrics are empty, the music leaves much to be desired, and perhaps the best saying in I wish we all could win is the tribute to a friend who passed away (which is not in any song it's in the booklet). The Afters need to write fewer feel good songs and more meaningful ones with better music.
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