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List Price: $11.94 | | Label: Arista
Salesrank: 265
Released: October 23, 2007 |
| Our Price: $8.09 |
| Used Price: $6.41 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Carnival Ride Track Listing:
1. Flat on the Floor
2. All-American Girl
3. So Small
4. Just a Dream
5. Get out of This Town
6. Crazy Dreams
7. I Know You Won't
8. Last Name
9. You Won't Find This
10. I Told You So
11. More Boys I Meet
12. Twisted
13. Wheel of the World
Editorial Review:
Australian two CD pressing of the Country music superstar's 2008 album includes a bonus CD containing five Christmas songs: 'Hark! The Herald Angels Sing', 'The First Noel', 'What Child Is This', 'Do You Hear What I Hear' and 'O Holy Night'. Carnival Ride is the follow-up to her debut CD, Some Hearts, which has been certified sextuple platinum by the RIAA for shipments of more than six million copies. Carnival Ride gets its title from the lyrics of one of the new songs she has recorded. "You step onto this ride called life, and it's a crazy thing you don't know anything about, but you get on it anyway," the American Idol winner said. "You do what you can to lean different directions to try and get it to go where you want it to go, but you can't stop it -- it just keeps moving. That's why Carnival Ride works as my album title. It describes the wonderful craziness that I've been through over the past couple years." Sony/BMG.
Description of Carnival Ride:
Carrie Underwood’s Some Hearts, hastily made and released some five months after she won the 2005 American Idol crown, was surprisingly solid and tuneful. For her follow-up, producer Mark Bright steers her toward the big Martina McBride skies, with a plethora of strings and huge emotional crescendos. Underwood co-wrote four songs, mostly with the tried-and-true tunesmiths who made Some Hearts soar. On the torchy heartache ballad "I Know You Won’t," she gives a beautifully nuanced and controlled performance, but if that song would suit any number of lush female pop stars from Celine Dion on down, "Flat on the Floor" rocks hard while preserving co-writer Ashley Monroe’s Appalachian angst. Still, there are missteps: the easy tears of the unlikely war ballad "Just a Dream," a too-obvious attempt to repeat the sass of "Before He Cheats" ("The More Boys I Meet"), and the Shania-ish bad-girl-on-Cuervo stomp of "Last Name." The big payoff, then, is how much 24-year old Underwood has improved as a vocalist. How often listeners line up for this Carnival Ride depends on their attitude about country music’s continual melding with pop, and how they feel about a princess upstart taking home the awards that used to go to her heroes. --Alanna Nash
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Carnival Ride Reviews:
Timeless album will never get tired of hearing it 
2009-11-15 - I love Carrie underwood and love everything about her and this album my amsalut fav is "flat on the floor" and my 2ed is "just a dream" vary sad but love the way she sings this and to every one who reviewed her as bad and saying she donset know to us her voice that's a buch of CRAPE becuase she is one of the best singers I'v ever herd and anyone who has to say defrent sould keep there mouth shout because just because you don't like her that dons'et tons of other people love her and her first and seaced albums are great and I'm sure that her tride one great as well and Taylor Swift and great singer as well and so is Kellie Pickler.
Love this entire CD
2009-10-12 - I bought this for my 7 yr old daughter and WOW that girl has talent!!!
Cant seem to stop listening to it. She is fantastic. Go Simon Cowell.
not the right c.d in case 
2009-08-06 - the c.d inside the case was the wrong one but amazon got that problem fixed in no time .
Long time fan------STUNNED.
2009-07-26 - I picked Carrie to WIN AI the second that I saw her first audition. That was a tie for my fav AI season ever!!!!! (Tied with the original AI Kelly Clarkson.) I tunned in each week knowing that she was going to nail it no matter what song she sang....loved her then and still do now. I will never forget her cover of "Alone" and " Independence Day" They were AMAZING!!!!!
Onto the album. I was stunned at how amazing this album is. I have been a huge fan since day 1 and I know how amazing her voice is, but every single song is great. This cd is well worth the money. I just bought the cd , money is tight, and I love this cd.I knew that I loved "so small", "all american girl", "just a dream", "I told you so", & "last name", but those are not the only great songs. "get out of this town" is a great song, the lyrics, vocals everything. That song was a sursprise, it wasn't a song that I thought fit her style, but it does! "I know you wont is a sad song and it has deep meaning can be very thought provoking."you wont find this " is a great song love the music, vocals, chorus, everything.....that song is so great, and I think alot of women can relate to the message of that song. "the more boys I meet" is fun and serious all at once. LOVE it......She really hit it on all cylenders for this album. Carrie's next album is due out in the fall of 09'. Every song tells a story and it is delivered to you via an amazing voice, you won't regret buying this album.
Just a reminder: If people don't continue to buy cds legally.....soon people who really love cds (and the liners) will not be able to buy them anymore.....the record companies will stop......We neeed to bring the record sales up. :):) save our CDs!!!!!
Love Carrie
2009-07-09 - gave this as a gift to my daughter. We both love Carris Underwood and she truly enjoys this CD. Highly recommend. This gal has quite a voice.
