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Welcome to Discovery Park

Artist: Brad
Label: Redline Ent
Category: Music

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Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars

21 reviews
Sales Rank: 124202

Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.9 x 0.4

UPC: 674797000828
EAN: 0674797000828
ASIN: B00006BTAG

Release Date: August 13, 2002

Tracks:

•	Brothers and sisters [Smith]
•	Shinin' [Smith]
•	Drop it down [Gossard/Smith]
•	Never let each other down [Smith]
•	If you could make it good [Smith]
•	Revolution [Hagar/Smith]
•	Takin' it easy [Smith]
•	Sheepish [Gossard]
•	All is one [Berg/Smith]
•	Couch T-bone [Brad/Smith]
•	La, la, la [Smith]
•	Yes, you are [Smith]
•	Arrakis [Berg/Smith]

Similar Items:

•	Interiors
•	Shame
•	The Family
•	Bayleaf
•	Brad vs Satchel

Editorial Reviews:

Amazon.com
Brad further demonstrate a propensity for musical comfort food, '70s rock style, on their warm-sounding, soul-infused third album. Welcome to Discovery Park is a funny title for this recording, since there's actually little to uncover here. If you've listened to the radio since 1970, you can anticipate chord progressions and guitar solos. But the classic-rock textbook sounds just fine in Brad's hands, especially with production assistance from Phil Nicolo of the Butcher Brothers. While not as inventive as works by Wellwater Conspiracy (another retro-minded Seattle outfit) or Queens of the Stone Age, Discovery Park is not without its charms. Set highlight "La, La, La" is a warm blast of soulful pop-rock that is sure to keep fans of Urge Overkill and Grand Funk Railroad smiling for days. --Mike McGonigal

Album Description
Seattle-based rock band Brad delivers a career-defining artistic triumph with its third album. "Welcome to Discovery Park" finds one of music's most soulful and musically elegant bands kicking up a storm of funky garage rock grooves one minute and glorious, irresistibly catchy pop melodies the next. Brad's core members Shawn Smith, Stone Gossard, Regan Hagar, and Mike Berg invited multi-instrumentalists Thaddeus Turner, Jeremy Toback and percussionist Elizabeth Pupo-Walker to add their own flourishes in the studio. The album is produced by Brad, with additional production and mixing by Phil Nicolo of the Butcher Brothers production team. Brad's first two albums, "Shame" (Epic, 1993) and "Interiors" (Epic, 1997), caught the ears of fans and critics around the world. Brad's devoted fanbase eagerly awaits "Welcome to Discovery Park," and they will not be disappointed by, arguably, Brad's best record to date.

Customer Reviews: Read 16 more reviews...

5 out of 5 stars

Best BRAD Album YET! January 13, 2008
some people do not like this album, but i think it is great! i think it is his best work.

4 out of 5 stars

discovering discovery park May 1, 2005
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

I must disagree with the earlier negative reviews. Found this CD today in a bargain bin. Overall a quality product with some very interesting tracks. A more mature direction for the band. Perhaps, this is the reason for the dissatisfaction with younger listeners. I like this CD better than "interiors" and recommend it for those looking for a melodic and somewhat serene listining experience.

1 out of 5 stars

Welcome to the end of Shawn's career January 23, 2004
1 out of 3 found this review helpful

I am a huge fan of Shawn Smith since first hearing "Shame" way back when...This new album flat out sucks...Shawn has always stayed one step ahead of listeners until now. Shawn, put down the bong, layoff the donuts and quit it with the "La La La" in every song...it was interesting the first time but its not a style. Take some time off instead of writing junk...the same goes for stone.

2 out of 5 stars

mediocre at best, and that's being generous January 13, 2004
i bought this album after a brad show. shawn smith and company were amazing on stage, and i was a pretty big smith fan, so i picked it up.

for some reason the recorded versions just didn't grab me like the songs played live. i mean, they aren't even close. maybe it's because they peppered the set with brad classics, and even soem satchel songs. who knows.

first of all, smith really mailed in the songwriting duties on this one. i always thought he was a perfectly serviceable writer. nothing outstanding, but his voice completely made up for whatever small shortcomings he had on the writing end. well, not this time, folks. secondly, the melodies are just boring, ploddingly so.

"shinin'" is a perfectly example. nice little catchy tune, but it's so inane i can't listen to it without laughing or cringing. the writing cripples the song. come on smith, living free is the way to be, living free is our destiny? wow, that's just bad.

then we have the boring, almost michael-jacksonian "yes you are." and not good, "off the wall" or "thriller" vintage michael, but cloying, post-culkin michael.

but it does have bright spots, thankfully. "la la la" transcends its silliness. "drop it down" is the brad i'm sure we all wanted. but these two songs, a spattering of mediocre tunes, and a load of crap does not a decent album make.

buy it at your own risk. if you really want it, i have an almost-new copy for sale...

4 out of 5 stars Takes more than one listen November 6, 2003
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

When Pearl Jam's TEN came out, I thought it was the best album of all time. As a matter of fact, even today, I still believe that it is one of the top albums ever. Anyhow, I followed the whole Seattle scene at that time, and was very interested in 1993 to hear Stone Gossard's side project "Brad".

I remember thinking it was crap the first time I heard the album "Shame", but the more I listened to it, the more I liked it, until it actually became another of my favorite albums. It's hard to say exactly what it was that made me like it so much, but I'm going to guess that it was the pure originality of the whole thing. They weren't like anything else I'd heard before.

That originality is very much still alive and well on their latest release "Welcome to Discovery Park". And although right now, I don't like it as much as Shame, I think I probably haven't listened to it enough yet. I'm sure that once I've given a goo 4 or 5 listenings, that I'll love it just as much, because this music is like a fine wine, it's a refined and aquired taste.