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Who We Are |  | Artist: Lifehouse
Label: Geffen Records
Category: Music
List Price: $13.98
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Rating:  94 reviews
Sales Rank: 2025
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 000915302
UPC: 602517359055
EAN: 0602517359055
ASIN: B000Q9OD5I
Release Date: June 19, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Disarray | | • | First Time | | • | Whatever It Takes | | • | Who We Are | | • | Broken | | • | Joke | | • | Easier to Be | | • | Make Me Over | | • | Mesmerized | | • | Bridges | | • | Learn You Inside Out | | • | Storm |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Who We Are is another set of rousing anthems from this reflective trio. On their fourth full-length, the Los Angeles three-piece sets the template for a harder-rocking effort with dynamic opener "Disarray," in which singer/guitarist Jason Wade admits he doesn't know where he's going, but "wouldn't have it any other way." The band rocks even harder on album highlight "The Joke," a song inspired by a real-life suicide. It's a risk that pays off, although the lyrics almost make the subject seem more defiant than regretful. Throughout the record, Rick Woolstenhulme's drums sound like they're cranked up to 11--not that there's anything wrong with that (Bryce Soderberg holds his own on bass). In other words, the music isn't shy (or subtle), but Wade's words read more like questions than answers. Granted, closing number "Storm," with Rocco DeLuca on organ, brings things to a gentle close, but most tracks follow in the over-sized footsteps of post-grunge precursors, like Live and Stone Temple Pilots. Then again, as Abigail Van Buren used to say, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." If Lifehouse ever find what they're looking for, to paraphrase yet another sage, they may as well pack it in. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
Album Description
Lifehouse is singer-guitarist Jason Wade, drummer Rick Woolstenhulme and bassist-singer Bryce Soderberg. These three guys are a hit making machine! Jason Wade proved himself a gifted songwriter with Lifehouse's first record, 2000's multiplatinum No Name Face, which spawned the #1 hit "Hanging by a Moment." Calling that song a hit, however, is a bit of an understatement as "Hanging by a Moment" was the most-played song of 2001. Stanley Climbfall, the band's Top 10 follow-up, was released in 2002. 2005 saw the release of their third album simply titled Lifehouse which included the undeniable hit #1 multi-format hit "You And Me" and kept the band out on the road touring for over a year. With Who We Are, Lifehouse takes another evolutionary step making an upbeat album full of potential hits sure to please fans and make new ones.
Album Description
Japanese pressing of their 2007 album featuring three bonus tracks: 'Keep The Change', 'I Want You To Know' and 'You And Me (Live In Portland)'. With Who We Are, their fourth Geffen album in seven years, Lifehouse, all still in their mid-20s, are really starting to enjoy the fruits of their success and have some fun. Their multi-platinum 2000 debut, No Name Face, produced "Hanging by a Moment," a #1 alternative hit which crossed over to become Top 40's Most Played Song, while 2005's self-titled platinum effort yielded "You and Me," a giant hit ballad that set a record by spending more than 60 weeks on Billboard's Hot 100 chart, Lifehouse are not just the sum of their considerable accomplishments
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| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 1-5 of 94
 Exactly What I Was Looking For November 30, 2009
Sophia (Orange County, CA)
The product came in a timely manner and was exactly what I was looking for. I love the cd and play it all the time!
For the thoughtful and heavy hearted... October 19, 2009
Abysmal Release (Massachusetts)
From an outlook of 2007, through a stretch of similar music of melodic resonance entwined with other great rock/alt. alums, lies Who we Are; possibly the best album released in 2007 segued from a maturing self-titled Lifehouse.
Whether this album truly deserves five stars (because I know someone is thinking I'm just a person who loves Lifehouse) should not be debated in regard to rating truly great music. If you just think Lifehouse is great because you heard them on the radio a couple of times, try listening to the lyrics closely (and don't automatically give it a "five"). Any real Lifehouse fans knows of Jason Wade[lead singer]'s deep lyrics from his religious background and feelings toward life. In No Name Face and Stanley Climbfall came the young group eager to express; and I know everyone has heard "Hanging On A Moment". The sounds of this album seem to come more directly from earlier works then from the self-titled Lifehouse (possibly too slow, at least for me). Highlighting the stronger sound of Who We Are comes songs you've heard, First Time and Whatever It Takes; though I believe the best music comes from a deep and intricate "Storm" and "The Joke", with slower verses ascending to an upbeat chorus, emphasizing the extremities of Jason Wade's voice. I bought this the day it was released, solely from my interest in their previous album. Yet I found an outstanding sounding rock album; which should not be passed without a listen.
In regard to similar sounding albums, I was referring to a new sounding (happy, really) Matchbox Twenty, no "If You're Gone" in this one, and a very mature sounding Tom DeLonge in A&A (album: I-Empire), a must-listen for true blink-182 fans.
YAY! October 7, 2009
Eileen M. Aguilar
Great CD, I got it as promised and in a timely manner. Great customer service.
kgreene446 September 18, 2009
Karey R. Greene
Very good sound. A lot of soul for a band this young. I like it!
Lifehouse July 7, 2009
Anthony F. Peetz (Dallas, TX United States)
This band should be more popular. Great sound, easy to listen to over and over.
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