3 Doors Down: Seventeen Days
February 17, 2005
“I feel there is nothing I can do” pretty much sums up the third album from 3 Doors Down.
It is mediocre and seems to be missing something. Maybe that something is original-sounding material.
“Seventeen Days” consists of three catchy songs.
Get rid of those and this pop rock album wouldn’t be getting off the ground. What happened to the trendy beats that helped the band sell 12 million copies of its debut “The Better Life?”
Bob Seger lends his vocals to “Landing in London,” a ballad softer than the band is used to, with a guitar break in the middle. It’s kind of like every song Creed did.
These Mississippi rockers just couldn’t pull it off the third time around. Usually it’s the second album that flops, but 3 Doors Down wanted to set an example.
The album is too jumpy. The sound goes back and forth from attempted hard rock to the pop that made 3 Doors Down a household name.
“Never Will I Break” sounds almost like a silly experiment to become Metallica. Clearly, the band lost its somewhat distinctive sound trying to become something it’s not.
Boys, who are you going to be? Third Eye Blind, Metallica or Matchbox Twenty? When you figure it out, get back to us.