History for Sale

History for Sale Artist: Blue October
Label: Umvd Labels
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Format: Clean
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 602498605868
EAN: 0602498605868
ASIN: B0000AKY67


Release Date: 2003-08-05

History for Sale


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Tracks:

  1. Ugly Side
  2. Clumsy Card House
  3. Razorblade
  4. Calling You
  5. Cameleon Boy
  6. Sexual Powertrip (One Big Lie) Bla Bla
  7. Quiet Mind
  8. 3 Weeks, She Sleeps
  9. Inner Glow
  10. Somebody
  11. Come in Closer
  12. Amazing

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Really good and an interesting listen.......2006-03-29

I first heard of Blue October when my local radio station began to play "Calling You" a few years ago. On first couple of listens, I liked it but thought it was a bit sappy. I didn't know if I would be interested in listening to them as a whole CD. Recently, "Hate Me" from their new CD coming out next week has been on the radio and I really dug it. It was definitely painful and was a lot different from Calling You. I decided maybe I should check out "History for Sale." I'm glad I did.

"History for Sale" is not a very happy album in spots. It's full of pain, both present and past, and creates a very melancholy tone which is helped along with occaisonal string instruments. For instance, the CD begins with "Ugly Side" which is a perfect opener for the CD. It brings up the thought of not wanting your significant other to know the bad parts of your life as he sings, "I only want you to see / My favorite part of me, / And not my ugly side." The rest of the CD doesn't hide the ugly side. It shows life, warts and all.

On songs like "Razorblade," we see the death of innocence as people we should be able to trust let us down, "I freaked out, thinking people didn't love." Even in songs that are optimistic, there's this feeling that the singer/song-writer is afraid of trusting too much, of putting himself out there.

Some might write it off as melodramatic drivel, I suppose, but for me, the fact that singer Justin is being blatantly honest the music is more interesting, open and honest than other rock/pop rock out there. Which brings me back to Calling You. Like I said, when I first heard this, I thought it was catchy but sappy. But after "History for Sale" ends with an accoustic rendition of Calling You, what was originally sappy (and possibly a tiny bit stalkerish) instead has become an ode to a relationship that has gotten him above all the sh*t in his life that came before. It's a bright side, something to hang onto, to give the rest of what he's singing about a context.

5 out of 5 stars

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  1. The String Quartet Tribute to the Offspring
  2. East of Monument ~ Half Film
  3. And Reason Flew ~ 100 Watt Smile
  4. The Weird Tapes No. 3: Free Festivals ~ Hawkwind
  5. Livewire !!! ~ The Wailers
  6. It's Never Easy Being Cheesy ~ Fast Food Rockers
  7. My Dad ~ Paul Petersen
  8. Allow Us to Be Frank ~ Westlife
  9. Marionetas en la Cuerda: The Complete Spanish Recordings ~ Sandie Shaw
  10. Through The Son

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Najee Plays Songs from the Key of Life: A Tribute to Stevie Wonder ~ Najee

Steaming Hot ~ Monty Alexander

Atavachron ~ Allan Holdsworth

Hideaki Aomori - Young Man With A Horn <Sir Roland Hanna presents>

Music from Tomorrow's World ~ Sun Ra & His Arkestra

Savoir Aimer ~ Florent Pagny

Mir Leben Eybik ~ Daniel Kempin

Breakthrough ~ B.J. Digby & Lone Catalysts

Keltik Kharma 2: Keltik Klassiks ~ Keltic Kharma

Golden Best: Singles ~ Junko Ohashi