October 28, 201113 yr Its a good album but not as good as "all I ever wanted". A lot of the tracks do sound similar but I still like it.
October 28, 201113 yr Many know me as a Kelly loon so I wanted to wait a while before rating this album so that the excitement had brushed off and I could do it properly. 08 Mr. Know It All 09 What Doesn't Kill You 07 Dark Side 10 Honestly 09.5 You Love Me 07 Einstein 07 Standing In Front Of You - Usually I love it when Kelly writes with Aben but this isn't what I wanted :( 08 I Forgive You 09.5 Hello 09 The War Is Over 10 Let Me Down 09 You Can't Win 07 Breaking Your Own Heart 09.5 Don't You Wanna Stay 09 Alone 07 Don't Be A Girl About It 08 The Sun Will Rise Some brilliant tracks on here. I think I would rate this higher than Breakaway overall. I love the theatricality of Honestly and the Soulful Pop influence on Hello. I'd say my second favourite album behind My December.
October 28, 201113 yr This album really is just getting better and better for me :wub: I thought I was just being overexcited as she's my fave singer of all time but even having given it time to sink in, this is AMAZING. It's still only third behind Breakaway and My December but I'd place it above All I Ever Wanted already, seeing as the latter two are in my top 10 of all time that is still high praise. Higher praise given AIEW is in my top 20 ever :o she is the best :cheer: Too right she is!
October 29, 201113 yr Author IKR? This album is still growing on me too! I'm still pretty much in the "delusional" mode though.
October 29, 201113 yr On the whole, I think it's a solid album. Basically 'All I Ever Wanted' but done right. There's less contrived and more sturdy to it. But equally I don't think it really touches 'My December' or 'Breakaway' in terms of quality, in many ways it's a rather uneventful album that continues to push forward the idea that Kelly will be a much better and interesting artists once her contract with RCA is up. 'Darkside' and 'What Doesn't Kill You (Stronger)' are my highlights at the moment.
October 29, 201113 yr Breakaway was a pretty crap record for me saved by a selection of great singles and Gone. The rest I would very happily never listen to again in my life. This album might lack the absolute peaks of that one (SUBG, Hazel Eyes) but it offers an entire album's worth of quality power pop whereas Breakaway was filler city.
October 29, 201113 yr Okay it's growing on me alot after hammering it the other night. 'What Doesn't Kill You' is seriously amazing and needs to be HUGE.
October 29, 201113 yr I'm not going to do a rate because it will be loony but my hot favourites at the minute are What Doesn't Kill You, The War Is Over, You Can't Win and Alone. I can't believe the latter is only a bonus track! I did a bit of re-arranging and it makes the perfect closing song on the album.
October 30, 201113 yr So far: http://hitparade.ch/cdimg/kelly_clarkson-mr_know_it_all_s.jpg Mr. know it all 01 Australia 06 UK 08 NZ 14 Ireland 14 Canada 18 US 73 Austria 90 Holland http://hitparade.ch/cdimg/kelly_clarkson-stronger_a.jpg Stronger 03 Australia 08 Ireland 16 Holland 57 Belgium (Flanders) 90 Belgium (Wallonia)
October 30, 201113 yr [08] Mr. Know It All [09] What Doesn't Kill You (Stronger) [09] Dark Side [10] Honestly [08] You Love Me [07] Einstein [08] Standing In Front Of You [09] I Forgive You [08] Hello [10] The War Is Over [10] Let Me Down [10] You Can't Win [09] Breaking Your Own Heart [09] Don't You Wanna Stay [08] Alone [07] Don't Be A Girl About It [09] The Sun Will Rise [08] Why Don't You Try
October 31, 201113 yr Author I believe someone was asking how much each of her albums had sold... The OCC has reported these (at long last!) Kelly Clarkson - All I Ever Wanted 191,953 Kelly Clarkson - (Be) Thankful 148,461 Kelly Clarkson - Breakaway 1,556,554 Kelly Clarkson - My December 147,862 It's called 'Thankful'! Ha! I'm very pleased with those myself. Had Amelia originally done 'Already Gone', like it was first rumoured, I wonder if AIEW would have trickled it's way past 200k? :unsure:
October 31, 201113 yr It seems odd that 3 of her 4 previous albums have fairly similar sales (Stronger will probably end up somewhere between 'Thankful' and 'All I Ever Wanted' as well I guess) but 'Breakaway' has sold 8 times more than her next biggest seller. Very out of place.
October 31, 201113 yr Had Amelia originally done 'Already Gone', like it was first rumoured, I wonder if AIEW would have trickled it's way past 200k? :unsure: I very much doubt it would have done anything for the album at all. A couple of hundred extra copies max.
November 1, 201113 yr Well Breakaway is my fave album of all time, so w00t for that :wub: It is rather bizzare she had such appeal with that album but lost a huge chunk of an audience for MD and AIEW (and now Stronger too) though... Had Amelia originally done 'Already Gone', like it was first rumoured, I wonder if AIEW would have trickled it's way past 200k? :unsure: Probably not, but she would've won. Grr[/stillbitter]
November 1, 201113 yr HDD have her at 170k for the week. So that's the top end of their revised estimation of 160k-170k which is brilliant. Still slightly under what I think it should have done though. I think Mr. Know It All will reach a new peak in the US this week though :)
November 2, 201113 yr JAKE if you're reading this I want to know if you've investigated this album at all.
November 2, 201113 yr JAKE if you're reading this I want to know if you've investigated this album at all. Whatever for wanton child? I can confirm I have (for reasons entirely unbeknown and unfathomable) downloaded the DELUXE edition. Expect some comments and true NUMBER MARKING (as is tradition amongst Kelly fans). I do warn you, in Jakeworld a 10/10 track for me is a song that I love a few months + not upon THIRD LISTEN. 11/10 is purely for classix *.*
November 2, 201113 yr I await the touch of grounded realism you are sure to bring to this thread. Although for somebody who isn't necessarily a FAN I would imagine that the deluxe edition will leave you for DEAD. There's about FORTY FIVE SONGS on there.
November 2, 201113 yr Updated ranking now that I quite enjoy it; 10 What Doesn't Kill You (Stronger) 07 Mr Know It All 09 Dark Side 08 Honestly 07 You Love Me 08 Einstein 07 Standing In Front Of You 08 I Forgive You 08 Hello 09 The War Is Over 09 Let Me Down 08 You Can't Win 08 Breaking Your Own Heart 05 Don't You Wanna Stay 10 Alone (why on earth is this just a bonus?!) 04 Don't Be A Girl About It 06 The Sun Will Rise
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