8. The Beautiful Letdown – switchfoot
The review in Christianity Today covers my thoughts pretty well on this one, the pinnacle (so far) for switchfoot. I still think these guys have a Joshua Tree in them. Or maybe they’ve already released it, but just over a series of albums rather than encased into a single CD. I own all their CDs, and enjoy them all, but Beautiful Letdown is my favorite.
From the driving modern rock of Meant to Live and This is your Life to the elegiac 24 and On Fire, switchfoot delivers. Musically and lyrically.
Snippets of the lyrics (full listing)…
· We were meant to live for so much more
· We want more than this world’s got to offer, we want more than the wars of our fathers
· I don't know what they're gonna think of next, genetic engineers of the most high tech. A couple new ways to fall into debt. I'm a nervous wreck but I'll bet that that T.V. set tells us what we've wanted to hear
· It was a beautiful letdown the day i knew that all the riches this world has to offer me would never do. In a world full of bitter pain and bitter doubt, i was trying so hard to fit in, until i found out…
· I don’t belong here
· Easy living, you’re not much like the name
· We are a beautiful letdown, painfully uncool, the church of the drop-outs, the losers, the sinners, the failures, and the fools
· The tension is here, between who you are and who you could be, between how it is and how it could be
· Today will soon be gone, like yesterday is gone
· We’ve got information in the information age, but do we know what life is outside of our convenient Lexus cages?
· Yesterday is a wrinkle onyour forehead… This is your life. Are you who you want to be? This is your life. Is it everything you dreamed that it would be when the world was younger and you had everything to lose?
It just hit me… this is Ecclesiastes and Solomon. And it’s funny, whenever i finish one of these write-ups, i wonder… how could this album not be ranked higher? I may have missed the boat on this one.
Other links
The band talks about the album
Next up: the highest ranking album by a solo female artist
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