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- Cradlesong
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Rob Thomas
Released 2009

Someday (Album Version)
04:07
61,486 plays

Gasoline (Album Version)
03:55
45,760 plays

Give Me The Meltdown (Album Version)
03:12
43,027 plays

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- 1
- Her Diamonds (Album Version)
- 04:40
- 168,140 plays

- 2
- Gasoline (Album Version)
- 03:55
- 45,760 plays

- 3
- Give Me The Meltdown (Album Version)
- 03:12
- 43,027 plays

- 4
- Someday (Album Version)
- 04:07
- 61,486 plays

- 5
- Mockingbird (Album Version)
- 04:00
- 40,182 plays

- 6
- Real World '09 (Album Version)
- 02:45
- 39,238 plays

- 7
- Fire On The Mountain (Album Version)
- 05:09
- 35,875 plays

- 8
- Hard On You (Album Version)
- 02:42
- 33,434 plays

- 9
- Still Ain't Over You (Album Version)
- 03:09
- 31,665 plays

- 10
- Natural (Album Version)
- 04:48
- 28,369 plays

- 11
- Snowblind (Album Version)
- 03:54
- 30,308 plays

- 12
- Wonderful (Album Version)
- 03:28
- 30,330 plays

- 13
- Cradlesong (Album Version)
- 04:13
- 34,720 plays

- 14
- Getting Late (Album Version)
- 03:29
- 27,685 plays

- 15
- [CD-Rom Track]
- 00:00
- 133 plays

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album review

Listening to cradlesong, the second album from Matchbox Twenty singer/songwriter Rob Thomas, it's hard not to think of him as a man out of time, making big music for a world of miniature niches. Thomas makes music as if it was the turn of the millennium, when there were cross-demographic radio formats and stores to goose sales to diamond status, traits that still serve him well when he's constructing sonic skyscrapers, even if the results don't necessarily feel at home in the modern skyline. With its urgent hooks and surging sincerity, cradlesong is recognizably Thomas' work, right down to its lower-case typography, but with the assistance of longtime producer Matt Serletic he's tweaked the formula of his 2005 solo debut Something to Be in judicious ways, using his worldbeat inflections as an underpinning instead of flair, something that ties the album together. cradlesong is big music about big issues, even inflating personal issues to the universal. If it seems somewhat out of step with its year, that almost makes Thomas' somber, determined craft admirable -- he's doing this not because it'll give him a hit but because he believes in it. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide