The WB should note Five For Fighting’s new album “The Battle for Everything.” Each track could be added to the soundtrack of one of the network’s primetime dramas.

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Singer/songwriter John Ondrasik uses the name Five For Fighting as an alias. He has a skill for breathing life into simple lyrics, adding urgency to lines like “Sometimes good is better than bad” in the song “Nobody.”

Yet his music fits too neatly into an adult contemporary genre without making a huge impact. The album is a victim of overproduction and redundancy. Lackluster songs like the single “100 Years” about life from age 15 to 99 leave for empty album space.

Ondrasik boasts the CD is 9/11-inspired (how surprising) and sings, “Sunny, you are a part of me/ Sunny, you are a heart of me” in a song to New York.

Some edgier songs emerge from humdrum ballads. “Angels & Girlfriends” show Ondrasik’s bass voice sounds like Jack Johnson and Chris Cornell’s lovechild.

A notable song is “The Taste,” in which an unremitting violin beat suddenly ruptures into a rowdy rock chorus. Ondrasik yells, drums and cymbals pound and even the piano gets unruly, all while he sings, “I got the taste for you” repeatedly at the song’s end.

“The Battle for Everything” — routine songs for sub-par soundtracks.