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Reeces' Best Of '09: Top 30 Albums (28-27)
28. Jordin Sparks “Battlefield”
Standout Tracks: 'No Parade', 'Battlefield', 'Walking On Snow', 'It Takes More', 'S.O.S. (Let The Music Play)"
Two years ago, Jordin delivered a flawless album, and this year her challenge was to top that. While I feel ’Battlefield’ is clearly not as great as her debut, I think it has some good moments worth being mentioned, most of them in the first half of the album. The first track, ‘Walking On Snow’ immediately informs you that you are up for a great album with its catchy hook and then its immediately followed by the irresistible title track, ‘Battlefield’. Jordin keeps delivering catchy song after song, ‘S.O.S. (Let The Music Play)’, ‘Emergency Room (911)’ and ‘It Takes More’ are sure to stay in your head for only a few hours if you’re lucky. One of the best moments definitely take place in the middle of the album, when the power ballad ‘No Parade’ starts playing while Jordin shows off that vocal skill that made her famous in the first place. Other tracks that have to be mentioned are ‘Let It Rain’ and the sad song ‘Was I The Only One’. Overall, other than not being able to top her previous work, this album is a great effort and definitely worth a listen, if you haven’t yet.
27. Paramore “Brand New Eyes”
Standout Tracks: 'Misguided Ghosts', 'Ignorance', 'Decode', 'All I Wanted', 'Brick By Boring Brick'
Paramore is slowly becoming one of my favorite rock bands, and I think it’s gonna be that way for a long time, especially if they keep delivering great music and evolving with every album like they have been doing. It’s true that Paramore deserves much more mainstream recognition; the title track ‘Ignorance’ should’ve exposed them to a much more wider audience, but it wasn’t the case for some strange reason. Paramore released ‘Decode’ at the beginning of the year, giving us a small taste of what they had in store this year, and it definitely got me excited and looking forward to new music from this band. Just like with their last album, I happen to enjoy the slow songs a little more. The acoustic ‘Misguided Ghosts’ makes Hayley’s voice sound beautiful and ‘All I Wanted’, which is one of the best songs they have ever delivered in their entire career, stands out the most in this album. The up-tempos are very hard to forget, with ‘Looking Up’, ‘Turn It Off’ and ‘Ignorance’ showing the Paramore that we’re very used to hear. It’s not hard to predict that Paramore will stick around for a long time and they already got me looking forward to their next album.
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