Save Me

Artist: Pat McGee Band
Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Category: Music

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Format: Enhanced
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 093624851721
EAN: 0093624851721
ASIN: B0001LYGB2

Release Date: 2004-04-06

Save Me

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Tracks:

Beautiful Ways
Must Have Been Love
You And I
Now
Don't Give Up
At It Again
Annabel
Never Around
Wonderful
Set Me Free
Shady

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Customer Reviews:

A Different sound....fantastic!.......2005-05-25

Save me is a different sound for the Pat McGee band. In my opinion it is mellower with deeper lyrics. This album proves how diverse the band really is! I think Save Me is fantastic and their best work yet.

Best of all.......2005-01-27

This CD is definitely the best of all Pat McGee Band's albums. But anyone buying their CDs has to realize they sound the best live, as any good musicians do. However, this album has achieved a greater emotional intensity than any of the previous albums. I have been a fan for years, and I loved the old harmonies as much as anyone. I was disappointed when band members began to leave and the harmonies had to go with them, but the band has truly persevered and created a new sound that really gets to the heart of the emotion behind Pat's songwriting.

I've heard that the band did not try to get it as perfect as the last album. I loved the previous album, Shine, but it's a legitimate criticism to say it may have been overproduced. Save Me is certainly not overproduced. It is probably the closest to live sounding of a studio album I have heard in a long time.

Bands do evolve and change, whether they want to or not, and PMB has done a great job. This album is the culmination of years of songwriting by Pat and with the core members of the band coming together -- you can really hear that Pat, Chris (the drummer) and Chardy (the percussionist) have been together for a long time and are better for it.

another one bites the dust.......2005-01-16

Well folks... if you've never heard PMB before you'll never know what this album is missing...so go ahead and get it. You'll probably like it. But if you are like me and love all the crisp clear vocals and acoustic wonders of their previous albums then you should pass on this. It's nothing at all like their previous sound. I mean this album is fine but not what I expected or wanted. "Evolving" is great...unless the metamorphosis takes you from a butterfly to a caterpillar. My personal opinion is that adding more "noise" to a song doesn't necessarily make it better. Sometimes it's just plain noisier. Be sure to take a quick listen to sample tracks of their previous albums and you'll understand. In fact, you may end up buying Shine which is what I recommend. Save Me is an appropriate title as I wish I would have saved me a few bucks and passed. Would somebody email me when PMB goes back to their original incredible sound that differentiated them from all the other radio muck? I suppose all good things come to an end, right? Too bad.

How Utterly Depressing!.......2004-11-27

I first heard the PMB back around 1999 and instantly fell in love with the amazingly, organic guitar work, insightful (although sometimes contrived) lyrics and wonderfully unclouded sound of Pat's voice. If any of these reasons for liking PMB resonate true with your own experience, simply stay away from Save Me. Don't ruin it for yourself!!

I was wandering the aisles at my local music store when much to my happiness I found a PMB disc that I did not know existed. Immediately recalling my past experience of purchasing Shine after only hearing Rebecca, and subsequently playing it so much that I am sure the laser in my CD player is going to break through the plastic at any moment.....I snatched up Save Me, walked to the check-out and was opening it walking to my sound-room on wheels. Eagerly I slid it into the player awaiting the first glimpse of the melodic sounds I was sure would be emanating from all six speakers....well, my enthusiasm was met by complete and absolute disappointment.

Having read the reviews on this page suggesting that the PMB has grown up and evolved, I can only suggest that these are written by either DIE-HARD fans or people that wanted the band to sound the way they do on Save Me from the beginning. This effort is on a completely different plane of existence from their earlier work....long gone are the melodies offered up by Rebecca and Gibby. No these are replaced by 11 tracks of 3-4 chord, I can't tell where one song ends and the next begins radio songs. The only thing is, I doubt any of these songs will ever make it to the radio, as they just are not good.

Some bands can successfully evolve their sound and still make really good music, i.e. U2 with All That You Can't Leave Behind. I suppose it's unfair to bring up U2 in a review for the PMB...as much as it would be to bring up the Atlanta Braves while reviewing the Durham Bulls, but the comparison I'm drawing is of two bands that have dramatically changed their collective sounds, the difference being that the PMB gave up what set them apart from thousands of other analogous bar bands to offer up an entire album of insignificant radio-wannabee tracks.

In summary, if Shine and Revel represent everything you like about music, unless you are an avid fan of the band pretend Save Me does not exist and wait for the PMB's next offering hoping they get it right. I'm selling this one back for store credit....maybe I'll get the new U2??

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