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List Price: $13.98 | | Label: Republic
Salesrank: 5391
Released: February 8, 2000 |
| Our Price: $8.04 |
| Used Price: $0.24 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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The Better Life Track Listing:
1. Kryptonite
2. Loser
3. Duck and Run
4. Not Enough
5. Be Like That
6. Life of My Own
7. Better Life
8. Down Poison
9. By My Side
10. Smack
11. So I Need You
Editorial Review:
The Mississippi-based quartet 3 Doors Down has only one thing that sets them apart from other hard rock bands: lead vocalist Brad Arnold is also the drummer. The group shops the sounds of Pearl Jam and the Goo Goo Dolls, pointing at what they like, picking it off the shelf, and throwing it into the stew. While the music on The Better Life, their debut, sounds overall both competent and confident, the songs themselves are equally uninspired and clichéd. For example, the riff from the track "Loser" is straight out of the Alice in Chains songbook, adding much more cringe-worthy lyrics ("Addiction needs a pacifier, the buzz of this poison is taking me higher"). In fact, most of the lyrics zero in on well-worn rock themes of aggravation, confusion, and frustration, feelings that 3 Doors Down will easily coax out of discriminating listeners. --Jason Josephes
The Better Life Reviews:
3 DOORS DOWN CD 
2009-10-06 - "3 DOORS DOWN" What are you kidding!!!! EVERYTHING 3 Doors Down does is Awesome!!! If you don't know them You should check them out they are incredible.Best Band XOXOXO
3 Doors Down: The Better Life
2009-02-14 - CD was rockin.
CD arrived in a very timely fashion.
Cd arrived in excellent condition.
One of my all time favorites
2008-11-11 - This is one of the best albums I've ever had. I can't believe I lost it, along with some others, several years ago, but I loved it so much that I'm finally giving up looking and buying it all over again. More than worth it.
Still the best of 3DD 
2008-09-07 - Heard the rest, and enjoy them all, but The Better Life is still the best of the 3DD recordings.
Still Awesome
2008-08-16 - If you have heard 3 Doors Down on the radio and are curious about this band, this is a great album to start with, their first. There are so many hits on this album, and even the lesser known songs rock. "Down Poison", "By My Side" and "Smack" are probably my favorite songs of the lesser known on the list. Overall, this album is great. I love the song "Be Like That".
