14:59
| Sugar Ray
14:59
14:59 is the third studio album by American rock band Sugar Ray, released on January 12, 1999. It entered the top 20 on the Billboard 200, peaking at number 17 and certified triple-platinumby the RIAA. The album shows the band moving into a more mainstream pop rocksound, due to the success of their single "Fly" off their prior album, Floored. The album's title is a self-deprecating reference to the "15 minutes of fame" critics claimed the band was riding on. -Wikipedia
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AV Club
While never really straying from the party-friendly vibe radio has taught you to know and love. Sugar Ray's baseball-cap-clad fans will likely enjoy the newfound continuity.
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Sputnik Music
Sugar Ray understands their 15 minutes of "Fly" fame are almost up, and release an album that capitalizes on the strengths of the single and their previous efforts, while still slightly faltering creatively.
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All Music
Their third album showed an alarming overhaul in their approach, practically moving Sugar Ray into a new genre. 14:59 steered them from their metal shellac toward a calmer, melodious pastiche of songs.
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Nerd Bacon
14:59 may not be an instant classic, nor is it as cohesive as its predecessor, but what it lacks in vision it makes up for with pure catchiness. There are some tracks who’s inclusion I question (“Live & Direct,” “Burning Dogs”) but most of them are effective pop songs with enough diversity to keep the album interesting from beginning to end.
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In Music We trust
With 14:59, the punk influences have been swapped for a smooth, pop-filled summertime feel that's driven by a light dub backbeat.
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EW
For all its insouciant cheer, the album is the sound of a band resigned to the possibility that they may be one-hit wunderkinds and that the 2 million fans who bought their last album may have moved on to Barenaked Ladies.
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Valley View Music
All I know is, this album is lightning in a bottle. This was a band trying to prove they could write another hit song. Instead they wrote an entire hit record, and it is without exaggeration one of the best ’90’s pop records.
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Radio Not Found
Overall, the album gets 7.5/10. It’s not the most profound album out there, but it’s fun and has some really catchy songs on it. Of course the singles are great, but there are other songs here that are just as good or even better than the ones we know and love.
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Scaruffi
14:59 (Atlantic, 1999) is a lame album that doesn't get anywhere with radio-friendly trivialities like Every Morning.
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People
Bottom Line: Southern California surfer rock, updated and gnarly. . But try as they do to inject grit into their sound, Sugar Ray’s catchy tunes are at heart as sun-kissed as McGrath’s bleached blond hair and the streets of their hometown.
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Sounds of Broadstreet
Though 14:59 doesn’t quite let go of the band’s old roots, featuring smatterings of their old style fused with newer, mellower, pop sounds. 14:59 features something for everyone. The album is full of tongue-in-cheek humor, as well as self-deprecating humor.
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Harmonix Music
As the lead single off the band’s third album 14:59, it became one of their most popular singles. A marked change from earlier albums, being filled with acoustic guitars and reggae twinges. You’ll play everything from the earworm guitar riff to the vocal highlights (scattered across multiple vocal lines).
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Asinine Radio
Sugar Ray is a pretty kick ass band when they aren’t leaning on Mark McGraths pretty face and lovely voice. Specifically, 14:59 delivers some really awesome tracks that are nothing what you’d expect.
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TV Tropes
The album surprised people by almost completely dropping the heavy sound in favour of a more upbeat, Pop-influenced sound. The move paid off handsomely as the album outsold its predecessor, and spawned the hits “Every Morning,” “Someday” and “Falls Apart.”
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NME
So, listen and dislike, at yer leisure. But if you let anything like simple snobbery and indie-bigotry inform your opinion on ’14:59′, it’s your loss, not Sugar Ray‘s.
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Google Play Music
The album shows the band moving into a more mainstream pop rock sound, due to the success of their single "Fly" off their prior album, Floored. The album's title is a self-deprecating reference to the "15 minutes of fame" critics claimed the band was riding on.
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Media Surf
It's almost a parody; the inclusion of two comic songs entitled "New Direction" (one death metal, one circus tent) help that assessment. Finally, though, 14:59 has such catchiness and charm that it's a guilty pleasure of high order, and a bigger step than one might have expected
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Independent UK
Sugar Ray offer charm with a bite. There are other catchy tunes on here, but whereas The Offspring can successfully forge ska on to punk metal, 14:59 generally has less luck with blending in its light hip-hop sounds.
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Daily Nebraskan
The band released the aptly titled "14:59" to show it still has some time left.While the album's first single, "Every Morning," sounds suspiciously like "Fly," the bulk of "14:59" is a much better record than "Floored," featuring better guitar work and an appearance by rap great KRS-One
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NY Daily News
The shock is, it's a really good album. Or at least a really fun one. If "14:59" finds the band crassly abandoning its roots to mine the style of the hit — a major rock-critic no-no — it turns out that the formula expresses far more individuality than their punk stuff ever did.
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Los Angeles Times
Familiar-sounding, airwave-friendly anthem "Every Morning." And don't expect this Hollywood quintet to go down for the count just yet.
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