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Your Ultimate Bottom 5 Alter Bridge Songs

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Ok, so Jim made a thread about your Top 5 favorite AB songs.

But which tracks are your least favorite ones?

With Fortress baring down on us like the Sun at 5am on a summers day; now is a cool time (especially with so many new members as of late) for us all to compile our Bottom 5 AB songs lists..

One Day Remains (2004) -

Find The Real
One Day Remains
Open Your Eyes
Burn It Down
Metalfungus
Broken Wings
In Loving Memory
Down To My Last
Watch Your Words
Shed My Skin
The End Is Here
(Save Me)
(Ahavo Rabo Taco Salad)


Blackbird (2007) -

Ties That Bind
Come To Life
Brand New Start
Buried Alive
Coming Home
Before Tomorrow Comes
Rise Today
Blackbird
One By One
Watch Over You
Break Me Down
White Knuckles
Wayward One
(The Damage Done)
(New Way To Live)
(We Don't Care At All)


ABIII (2010) -

Shlip To The Void
Isolation
Ghost Of Days Gone By
All Hope Is Gone (Pirate Song)
Still Remains
Make It Right
Wonderful Life
I Know It Hurts
Show Me A Sign
Fallout
Breathe Again
Coeur D'Alene
Life Must Go One
Words Darker Than Their Wings
(Zero)
(Home)
(Never Born To Follow)

Your choices are above ^

Spend some time listening to the whole catalog and come back with a solid Bottom 5.. Consider things like which songs you usually skip.

Then we will see how it changes after Fortress has been out for a while.
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Re: Your Ultimate Bottom 5 Alter Bridge Songs

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Here are mine:

1- Watch Your Words
Meh... don't feel it.

2- Burn It Down
I can't get into it, the clean tone is annoying.

3- One by One
The verse is nice but the intro riff kills the song imo.

4- I Know It Hurts
Same as above.

5- Life Must Go On
Love the intro, but the song itself is kinda cheesy imho, it has a generic pop music vibe that I don't like.

EDIT: I was in a hurry and forgot about We Don't Care at all... I think I'd switch it with I know it hurts, maybe.
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1- Zero/Home

2- Life Must go On

3- I know it Hurts (Hurts to listen to it)

4- Make It Right

5- Watch Your Words
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There is only 1 (for me).

Break Me Down
- I do like it, but it's kinda cheesy, I like the bridge the most. Though, I've always pictured it as a heavier song. It'd have worked better if it was angry like Ties That Bind, imo... And I'm still wondering how Break Me Down made the record and The Damage Done and New Way To Live didn't...

EDIT: ''4. Break Me Down - In all fairness and honesty, sure, there's nothing criminally wrong with this song as it is crafted nicely and fine musically, vocally, and lyrically, but there's not much really pops out when you hear it.'' - anguyen92
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Hmmm, bottom songs, ehhhh? All right.

1. Breath Again - I assume they put this song as a soft breather from all the dark and moodiness from Show me A Sign and the upbeat and energetic Fallout and decided to add this song to relax a bit before moving forward to Couer D'Alene. I don't need a breather of any kind when listening to AB.

2. Shed My Skin - I know this is the most requested song of the AB nation, but, to me, this song does not real sound anywhere close to my opinion of a quintessential AB song. That said, I still would like to hear it live, just to freshen up the setlist.

3. We Don't Care At All - Them going for a punkish vibe. Sure, I like that vibe but like Shed My Skin, I would not see it as a song that represents AB as a whole.

4. Break Me Down - In all fairness and honesty, sure, there's nothing criminally wrong with this song as it is crafted nicely and fine musically, vocally, and lyrically, but there's not much really pops out when you hear it.

5. Still Remains - I don't know why, but this whole "Why have you forsaken me" vibe does not really work well, though I understand why they put it at that particular placement.

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Oh wow, this is much easier.

1. Breathe Again - One of the first reviews of ABIII said this song was "sweet. Sickly sweet." and I think that's bang on. I can't get into it and if they'd left it off the album, it would be all the stronger for it to my ears.

2. Break Me Down - I just can't get into it, ever. Another one that if they left off, I'd enjoy the album more as it wouldn't disrupt the flow.

3. Before Tomorrow Comes - It's basically a slightly better version of Breathe Again, but still doesn't do it for me. Too safe.

4. Make It Right - I enjoy the bridge but the rest is very meh.

5. Rise Today - This isn't a bad song by any means, I've just never really ever thought "could do with a listen to Rise Today now". I think the only reason it and Before Tomorrow Comes ever get listened to is because I can't be bothered to skip tracks after listening to Coming Home.
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1) we don't care at all is a song I don't care for
2) breathe again
3) save me
4) still remains
5) never born to follow
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Before Tomorrow Comes
Shed My Skin
Break Me Down
Rise Today
Save Me

Excluded Ahavo Rabo Taco Salad from that since it's hard to think of it as a proper Alter Bridge song. Also On My Way Now, which I definitely don't consider a proper Alter Bridge song.

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1. One By One
2. Make it Right
3. Burn it Down
4. Break Me Down
5. Broken Wings
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1. The entirety of AB III
2. Open Your Eyes - Never cared for it. First song I heard but if I hadn't later given Metalingus a chance, I never would have listened to the band.
3. One By One - Cheesy. Lame. Tries too hard.
4. Break Me Down - I don't even remember what this song sounds like anymore. And I don't care to.
5. Rise Today - I liked it when I first heard it but the luster quickly wore off. Again, tries too hard and ends up cheesy. The attempts from Blackbird to retain some of ODR's anthemic qualities largely sucked. I'm looking at Before Tomorrow Comes too.
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Damn, just too late for "inb4 'all of Ab iii'".

inb4 "everything that's not on ODR".
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1. Blackbird (extremely overrated imho) :shifty
2. Save Me
3. Break Me Down
4. Rise Today
5. Life Must Go On

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Wow, ''We Don't Care At All'' is getting a lotta hate. Why? It damn sure doesn't deserve so, imo.

I love the catchy, sorta punkish vibe. It's the ultimate FUCK YOU to the people you can't stand, to people who doubt your potentials.

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Yeah, I don't get it either. But when We Don't Care At All comes on, my wife rolls her eyes. So it seem like the majority doesn't care for it.

I'm going to participate in this list, but TBH, there isn't any AB song that I just outright do not like. These are the ones I listen to the least...

1. Save Me

2. Breathe Again (sorry, BMarsh)

3. Never Born To Follow

4. Fallout

5. Break Me Down
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Man, so much hate for Break Me Down. I don't get it. That song was inches from going in my Top 5. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, I guess...... I guess... :pout
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1. Show Me A Sign
2. Ghost Of Days Gone By
3. We Don't Care At All
4. Break Me Down
5. Still Remains

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OprahWinfrey wrote:1. One By One
2. Make it Right
3. Burn it Down
4. Break Me Down
5. Broken Wings

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TenaciousBe wrote:Man, so much hate for Break Me Down. I don't get it. That song was inches from going in my Top 5. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, I guess...... I guess... :pout
I love Break me Down. The Bridge is one of my favs
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Jim wrote:1. Show Me A Sign
2. Ghost Of Days Gone By
3. We Don't Care At All
4. Break Me Down
5. Still Remains

Easy.

1, 2 and 5... I agree... To disagree.
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Cthree922012 wrote:
TenaciousBe wrote:Man, so much hate for Break Me Down. I don't get it. That song was inches from going in my Top 5. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, I guess...... I guess... :pout
I love Break me Down. The Bridge is one of my favs
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