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The Middle Of Nowhere |  | Artist: Hanson
Label: Mercury Records
Category: Music
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Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 66621
Format: PAL, Import
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Running Time: 70 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 534615
UPC: 731453461529
EAN: 0731453461529
ASIN: B000001ES7
Release Date: May 15, 1997
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Thinking Of You | | • | MmmBop | | • | Weird | | • | Speechless | | • | Where's The Love | | • | Yearbook Song | | • | Look At You | | • | Lucy | | • | I Will Come To You | | • | Minute Wthout You | | • | Madeline | | • | With You In My Dreams | | • | Man From Milwaukee |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.co.uk Review
Hanson--Silverchair by way of the Partridge Family--are the first pretty-boy fake alt rock group that doesn't pretend to be anything but. If only for truth in advertising, they deserve our admiration. But as it happens, IMiddle of Nowhere/I, the debut album from Tulsa brothers Isaac, Taylor, and Zachary Hanson, warrants attention for other reasons as well. At their best, as on "MMMBop" or "Thinking of You" Hanson makes perfect 1990s bubblegum, Jackson Five-vocal interplay offset by slick power pop guitars and sharp hip-hop production care of the Dust Brothers. Even the more questionable material, such as the cheesy ballads "Weird" and "I Will Come to You," is, at worst, music for, about and by kids aged 16 and under. Such songs are not only more palatable coming from a 13-year-old than from a post-grad, given the age of the writers, the lyrics are actually pretty darn sharp. Granted, these lads had help with both the songwriting (including veterans Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil on the weakest track) and instrumentation (a full cast of session men) on "Middle of Nowhere". Still, as young writers and musicians with an indisputably authentic three-part harmony, Hanson are as real a band as it needs to be. Real enough, at least, to be a perfect antidote to MTV's other poster boys, Marilyn Manson. --IRoni Sarig, Amazon.com/I
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This is a really excellent album. Buy it! August 5, 2000
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Anybody that thinks Hanson are a load of Teeny-boppers really need to buy this album, because after listening to it you realise how amazingly talented they are. Every song is brilliant in it's own way and its amazing to think they can write and perform such good music at such a young age. There is a very innocent quality to this album which makes it all the better. This album is not as poppy as everbody assumes and even if you don't think you like Hanson you sould give it a go-you'll thank yourself for it!
MIDDLE OF NOWHERE- This is one to have October 28, 2000
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I love hanson but that doesnt sway my view of the C.D in any way. It is quality music and written by Hanson themselves which people dont give them enough credit for. If you havent already....check out there other albums, coz there brilliant too!
Brilliant August 1, 2004
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I brought this album the minute it came out, i loved it as soon as i had heard any songs from it. This album has so many depths even if they were young when they did it. The songs are loveable and are a sort of pick-you-up when you're down. br If you buy this album i promise you will not regret it, you will so pleased you brought it, i promise!!
Fantastic! January 31, 2005
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
I brought this album just after "Where's the Love?" was released in august 1997, because, to be honest, I hated MMMBop. I still do, despite being possibly one of the most crazily obssessed Hanson fans out there. brThinking of You - Incredibly catchy, pure pop, brilliant harmony from the boys, and a really great song. "So I sit there and I wait, I look at you and anticipate, what we could be and what we could do"brMMMBop - As I said, I hate this one, but I'm probably partly predjudiced because I think that in releasing it, they did the stupidest thing ever and got themselves bracketed as "One-Hit Wonders" and "Teenybopper Music." "So hold on to the ones that really care, cos in the end they'll be the only ones there"brWeird - In contrast to what the review at the top of the page says, this song is in no way cheesy. It's a breathtaking song, full of amazing insight, especially considering the ages of the guys at the time. They wrote this in a half hour, because they'd never heard of a song about the word weird. Weird. But great. "We've lived in the shadows, but doesn't every one? Isn't it strange, how we all get a little bit weird sometimes?" brSpeechless - Not the strongest song on the album, but still a good song. "I wonder do you still love me? Did you ever love me? Or were you playing with me before?"brWhere's the Love? - Very cool and I think it should have been the first single from the album. "Can you tell me what you see whenever you look around? We're tripping all over ourselves and pulling each other down."brYearbook - A very moving song about a missing classmate that no one knows what happened to. Made me cry the first time I heard it. "I'm looking through the yearbook, and I find that empty space, there's a name without a picture, but I can't forget his face"brLook At You - In my opinion, this is the second weakest song on the album. "Kick off your shoes, get on the floor, this is what we came here for" brLucy - Zac's solo, and I love it. It's a simple and sweet love song. "Now I don't have anymore songs to sing, Cause you were everything everything to me"brI Will Come To You - This is my favorite all-time song, let alone Hanson song. It's sweet, incredible live, has amazing harmonies. I believe it embodies all that is best about Hanson. "Sometimes when all your dreams, may have seen better days, and you don't know how or why but you've lost your way."bra Minute Without You - I love this song. "Well I woke up this morning and the night had been so long. It seems that I have had my mind on you. brMadeline- I don't know what to say about this one. It's one of those songs on an album that just IS. It's still pretty good, but not up to the standard of the album overall. "Madeline here we go around again. I know it you know it don't try yo pretend. You know it could be so much better than its been"brWith you in your dreams - The most emotional of all the songs on the album. A great track, that was written for their Grandmother just before she died. Never fails to make me cry. "If I'm gone please don't cry. And if I'm gone when you wake up, its not goodbye. Don't look back at this time as a time of heartbreak and distress, remember me, remember me cuz I'll be with you in your dreams"brMan From Milwaukee - Completely crazy! But really good and fun too. You can tell that the idea for this came from Zac! "He says where he's from is called Albertane and there they use more than 10% of their brains. But you couldn't tell it, from the way they behave. They run around in underwear and they never shave.
Definitly a 'must-have' CD for any music fan! April 9, 2000
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This CD is absolutly amazing! From the sweet innocence of Thinking of You to the rockier Look At You and the beautiful With You In Your Dreams (dedicated to their late grandmother), this CD has a little bit of everything. The talent of these three kids is mind-blowing, and this album really shines in cmoparison to the manufactured pop so common in todays charts. An absolute must for anyone.
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