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- Come Again
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Thornley
Released 2004

Keep A Good Man Down
03:40
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The Going Rate (My Fix)
03:45
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Clever
03:21
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- 1
- Falling To Pieces
- 03:21
- 14,475 plays

- 2
- Come Again
- 03:48
- 20,729 plays

- 3
- So Far So Good
- 03:21
- 27,200 plays

- 4
- The Going Rate (My Fix)
- 03:45
- 8,470 plays

- 5
- Keep A Good Man Down
- 03:40
- 8,790 plays

- 6
- Easy Comes
- 03:31
- 16,836 plays

- 7
- Beautiful
- 04:25
- 12,611 plays

- 8
- Bright Side
- 03:16
- 7,014 plays

- 9
- Clever
- 03:21
- 8,262 plays

- 10
- Found Another Way
- 03:08
- 7,087 plays

- 11
- All Comes Out In The Wash
- 03:39
- 8,194 plays

- 12
- The Lies That I Believe
- 05:59
- 7,758 plays

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album review

After Big Wreck dried up in 2002, Ian Thornley returned to his native Toronto, where he hooked up with pal Chad Kroeger of incredibly huge blather rock outfit Nickelback. Thornley signed with Kroeger's vanity imprint, tapped producer Gavin Brown, and secured backing help from the studio musician ranks. The result is Come Again, a slick, straightforward post-grunge effort with an ear for melody and slight twinges of psychedelia. Cuts like "Falling to Pieces" and the title track are greased-up chest bumps of well-executed 21st century active rock, akin to types like Lo-Pro or the similarly Gavin-produced Three Days Grace. It rumbles appropriately and teems with generic yearn -- it's numbingly indistinct music, but damn if it doesn't sound good loud. Thornley makes a more lasting impression with material like "So Far So Good" and "The Going Rate (My Fix)," which lets him stretch his wily vocals over instrumentation that shifts from acoustic to electric, and from plaintive to powerful. Contrasting the muscular stomp of "Easy Comes" with the more atmospheric, melodic "All Comes Out in the Wash," Audioslave becomes Thornley's closest stylistic peer. They both showcase powerful singers with whisper-to-a-screech range; both groups are a bit older and like tempering their full-on rock rip with some gray-hairs-in-the-sink introspection. Come Again should find fans of this sound, as well as Thornley supporters left over from his Big Wreck days. ~ Johnny Loftus, All Music Guide

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- - Great Album, Unknown Artist
  - - By IndecisiveZebra
    - 1/23/2009 17:23:57
  - I first found Thornley in high school, 2005. Their debut album, Come Again, is one of the best albums I've heard, ever...and look at my Zune Card...I listen to a lot of music! The punishing hard rock and powerful, honest lyrics make every track on the album a favorite. I look forward to their next release!
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