These Are the Days: Review: Rascal Flatts

Ok, I am becoming a huge loser when it comes to country. For the 2^nd straight week I was as Wal-Mart at midnight to grab a favorite CD of mine. Both have been well worth it. I used to think Rascal Flatts was the most depressed band on the face of the earth. All of their songs were so depressing. Really though, I think that is why I started liking them so much. Their tunes hit every emotion you could ever imagine. Me & My Gang is an incredible disc. Seriously, every other song is a hit single. This disc is going to rip up radio. Here are my thoughts…

1. Stand

This song is for sure going to be a single & just dominate. It is all about the ups & downs of life & is inspiring to be a lot like Feels Like Today was…”Cause when push comes to shove / You taste what you’re made of / You might bend, till you break / Cause its all you can take / On your knees you look up / Decide you’ve had enough / You get mad you get strong / Wipe your hands shake it off / Then you Stand, Then you stand.”

2. What Hurts The Most

What Hurts the Most is #1 right now on the charts. These Days is one of my top 5 all-time favorite songs & What Hurts the Most is every bit as good. The 1^st time I heard it, the lyrics blew me off my feet. This song is amazing, the video is even more impressive.

3. Backwards

I was rolling in my rig last Wednesday & they were previewing this song on y100. They tore this song apart. I think it is hilarious. It answers the question, “What do you get if you play a country song backwards?” “You get your house back / You get your dog back / You get your best friend Jack back / You get your truck back / You get your hair back / You get your first & 2nd wife back.” Backwards is a great change of pace for the disc.

4. I Feel Bad

This is a really interesting break up song that should hit the radio. It is about someone that just broke up with someone & just is done with it. “That I don’t feel bitter, alone / I just feel its time, its time to move on / I just gotta move on and on and on.”

5. My Wish

My Wish is just a really feel good song. This is another I think you’ll hear on the radio. “More then anything, more then anything, / My wish, for you, is that this life becomes all that you want it, / to your dreams stay big, & your worries stay small, / You never need to carry more then you can hold, / & while you're out there getting where you're getting to, / I hope you know somebody loves you, & wants the same things too, / Yeah, this, is my wish.”

6. Pieces

This is the most honest song I have heard in a long time. Pieces is my favorite song on the disc by far, I felt like it spoke to me. “So you turn to me / Your convenient friend / Oh but I know what you’re doing / & what you hope to find / I’ve seen it a thousand times / Oh the fire we had before / Are now just bitter ashes / Left scattered on the floor.”

7. Yes I Do

This song is where Jack Johnson & country meet. It has a really cool beat to it.

8. To Make Her Love Me

This is a really, really honest song about someone praying to get a lost love back. It is incredible…”I've said some things I shouldn't have / Tried everything to win her back / I'm human, I messed up, Is she gone?, Are we done? / Forgiveness, another chance, that’s all I want, it's in your hands.”

9. Words I Couldn't Say

This song will be a huge single, “What do I do now that you're gone / no back up plan no second chance / and no one else to blame / all I can hear in the silence that remains / are the words I couldn’t say.”

10. Me And My Gang

If Bon Jovi where to continue on his current country path, this song is what it would song like. It’s an ok tune, not really country at all though.

11. Cool Thing

This is a really romantic song. I like it a lot. Cool Thing is about a chance meeting with someone & just never pursuing it. “We won't take a deep notion / You know that place where footprints disappear / Just like that evening she drove away / It'll be burned in my mind for a million years.”

12. Ellsworth

Ellsworth is an amazing song about someone reminiscing about their grandparents & fading memories. I immediately began thinking about my incredible grandma & her talking about my grandpa while looking through photo albums & scrapbooks. “Her tired eyes glow wild & bright / when she talks about that town. / Tomorrow she won’t remember what she did today, / but just ask her about Ellsworth, Kansas 1948.”

13. He Ain't The Leavin' Kind

Leavin’ Kind is about a wife dealing with the loss of her husband. It is a pretty amazing song.

If you buy the bonus pack & Wally’s World, you get another disc with 5 live tracks. The songs are This Everyday Love, Then I Did, I’m Movin’ On, Here’s To You, & Feels Like Today.

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Me & My Gang
By Rascal Flatts