Oh! Gravity.

This is Switchfoot's best CD yet! The songs carry you through the CD and are as cleverly written as ever. As well as the normal hits you can hear on the radio, there are other gems hidden in the album that are good from the first time to the fiftieth time as you keep hearing new musical ingenuity and discovering new tricks in the lyrics.

I'm surprised that The Beautiful Letdown has a higher rating; Oh! Gravity is a LOT better. Theres a lot more energy put into the songs in this album. In fact, there was two songs total that i disliked. seriously, it rocks! I listen to it every day. its so good, i borrowed it from the library and then baught it here. i really reccomend it. their best yet!

Switchfoot is definately my favorite band. And this cd has not dissappointed. Though, The Beautiful Letdown will always be my favorite of their cds. If I had to pick a favorite song on the track, it would be "Let Your Love Be Strong." It's a song about the worls and how people need to stand up for themselves and not be taken down by the world's dirty hands.

"Oh! Gravity," the title is track is one of my favorites too. It's just such a fun tune. It's really on their true rock and roll side. Once you've seen Switchfoot in concert, though you realize that a simple cd could never suffice. They're an amazing band with an amazing lead singer and an amazing gift for writing songs.

Another of my favorites on the cd is "Yesterday." This song's about someone dying and people close to them trying to cope and move on. It says "I woke from a dream last night. I dreamt that you were by my side. Reminding me I still had life in me.

If you love Switchfoot, don't forget to check out lead singer Jon Foreman's solo projects Fall, Winter, Spring, and Summer. They're amazing as well!

I love Switchfoot, but like so many bands that start out with that amazing innocence and fresh approach that sounds amazing and smacks us with enlightening lyrics, they seem to have compromised in this album. As one reviewer said, he didn't even know they were a Christian band. I have to say I probably wouldn't know either from this album. The music is great, but what message is this getting out? Even the video, while fun, really is pointless, not even a glimpse of the hope we have in God's love.

While I don't believe every song of a Christian band has to have a blatant message, I do expect that on every album there will be at least one song stating what the band stands for. I'm sad because they used to have such a great message "Christ is the answer". Now they seem to have lost it.

Honestly, Oh! Gravity is probably my least favorite track on the record and discouraged me from checking the CD out when it was first released. However, after checking out the band in concert I wanted to get this CD. The first few times I listened to the CD, I passed over the opening track (Oh! Gravity). But I was instantly connected to the rest of the album. "Awakening" is my favorite track on the record... with "Let You Love Be Strong" a very close second.

So if Oh! Gravity turned you off like it did for me, work pass it and you'll find this CD is near perfect. I find the more you listen to it, the more the CD (and it's message) grows on you. Soon.... it's hard to stop playing it.

Another job well done by Switchfoot.