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BBMak Album: “Into Your Head [Japan Bonus Tracks]”
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Into Your Head [Japan Bonus Tracks] |
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Release Date:2002-09-23
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Type:Unknown
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Genre:Pop, Soft Pop, Soft Rock
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Label:JVC Victor
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Explicit Lyrics:Yes
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UPC:4988002437627
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Review - :
Featuring the vocal harmonies of {$Stephen McNally}, {$Christian Burns}, and {$Mark Barry}, {$BBMak}'s second album, {^Into Your Head}, was unfortunately the British trio's swan song, as the album failed to match either the sales or chart success of the group's debut, {^Sooner or Later}. That album, on the strength of the hit single {&"Back Again,"} successfully positioned the band (for better or worse) among the slew of late-'90s/early-2000s boy bands that included {$Backstreet Boys} and {$*NSYNC}. Unlike its more {\hip-hop}-influenced contemporaries though, {$BBMak} deftly combined the soft {\R&B} stylings of such British forebears as {$Take That} with the melodic {\pop} of {$the Beatles}. Each member also penned most of his own material, and it seemed as if the goal of {^Into Your Head} was to expand the group's audience with an update of early-'70s Southern California {\folk-rock}. Containing some of the prettiest and most ambitious songcraft to come from a {\teen pop} sensation since {$the Bee Gees}' {^Odessa}, the album often sounds like a cross between {$the Eagles} and {$the Goo Goo Dolls}. Minor electronic flourishes do little to diminish the organic feel of the production, and for the most part the songs feature solid melodic and lyrical hooks. {&"Get You Through the Night"} successfully references the dramatic bliss of {$Don Henley}'s {&"Boys of Summer,"} and the leadoff single, {&"Out of My Heart,"} makes the most out of the dippy but catchy refrain "Out of my heart and into your head." Similarly, the {$Byrds-esque} {\jangle pop} of {&"Out of Reach"} has a cinematic quality equivalent to the emotional apex of a {$John Hughes} film, while {&"Run Away"} is smartly punctuated by a string quartet. Ironically, the album closes with the sanguine power {\ballad} {&"Beginning,"} which finds the group belting out the prophetic line "I don't want to let you got, but in my heart now I know that it's only the beginning of the end." [A Japanese version included bonus tracks.] ~ Matt Collar, All Music Guide
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