Matchbox Twenty

Not in any hurry to vary the formula that proved so successful on their debut, the band's second album takes big, middle-of-the-road radio hooks and dresses them up in more alternative garb and Classic Rock guitars. As before, Rob Thomas' impassioned delivery holds everything together.

Roll credits for basic Teen Romance, plot Number Four. The camera tracks across a
suburban landscape toward Little Ms. Rockfan. She's being courted by two characters,
each working his own kind of sensitive-guy behavior. Out in the parking lot is Prospect
Number One, a scruffy, leather-jacketed misfit, shy but stubborn, with a tendency to
brood over everything from romance to the World Trade Organization. He mumb... More >