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Something to Be
Rob Thomas
Retail Price (not our price): $18.98
Release Date: 2005-04-19
Manufacturer: Atlantic / Wea
Format: Audio CD
Discs: 1

Track List
Now here, for your listening pleasure, the tracks...

Disc 1

Editorial Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):

1) Amazon.com
It's common knowledge that solo albums are simply an excuse for a frustrated band member to indulge their experimental sides and Rob Thomas, singer for decidedly M.O.R. multiplatinum rockers Matchbox Twenty is not one to pass on the opportunity. Having already explored the classic rock thing through his collaborations with Mick Jagger and Santana, Thomas goes the other way here with results that are unexpected, and, sometimes totally unbelievable. He veers from modern R&B on the Justin Timberlake-aping "Lonely No More" to vintage prog-rock in "All That I Am," touching on all points in between. There are a few nods to the Matchbox canon with "Ever the Same" and "This Is How a Heart Breaks" but, as the title suggests, this is an album about finding himself. For the moment, Thomas is still searching. The DualDisc portion features 5.1 surround sound, a 20-minute documentary on the making of the album by filmmaker Gillian Grisman, plus the holiday tune, "Christmas in New York." --Aidin Vaziri

2) Album Description
As the lead singer to the multi-platinum group matchbox 20, Rob Thomas penned a remarkable string of chart-topping hits. Rob has also collaborated with a select list of artists-most notably Santana, for whom he wrote and sang the smash pop single, "Smooth," which earned Thomas three Grammy Awards.

Customer Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 out of 5

1) Great Music   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
This is a great CD. When I ordered it, I was concerned that I might only like a couple songs on it, but I love every song on the CD. Rob Thomas's music is pretty diverse.

2) Buying it for Streetcorner Symphony   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
Streetcorner Symphony is a drug! One of the best I've heard in my life. UNREAL musical talent.Lonely no more, of course -super! and this is from someone who dislikes 99.9% of the popular music.

3) Not bad but nothing extraordinary   [Rating: 3 out of 5]
Although I have never been impressed with Rob Thomas as a singer/songwriter with or without Matchbox Twenty, I was awfully curious to hear Rob Thomas's first solo album SOMETHING TO BE (mainly because of the single "Ever the Same"). So I checked out SOMETHING TO BE from my library. I was surprised by how SOMETHING TO BE was so not like anything that Rob has done with his bandmates in Matchbox Twenty. On SOMETHING TO BE, the music is a hodgepodge of rock, latin, funk, and soul. I gotta give the man some credit for trying to branch out from the blandness of Matchbox Twenty. Some of the songs worked for me, and some didn't. I really did not like the opening song "This is How a Heart Breaks". Does not have much melody to the song. "Lonely No More" is a fairly decent song. It had a good enough pop hook to have it as the opening single for the album. I always loved "Ever the Same" and I still do. The lyrics and the melody compliments each other. I personally think this is Rob's best song he has ever written. I also loved the last two songs "Streetcorner Symphony" and "Now Comes the Night". The rest of the songs that I haven't mentioned (except for "When the Heartache Ends") are pretty forgettable. Rob Thomas does show a good deal of promise on this cd that I haven't seen with his band but those moments of hope were far and few between. SOMETHING TO BE isn't bad but nothing remarkable.

4) Awesome   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
Rob Thomas is an amazing songwriter, and an amazing singer. This CD really proves his talent!

5) Something to be   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
This is my second copy of the album. It is by far the best highway traveling music. I wore out a copy already.