Review by Bret Love @ allmusic.com Bands like the Calling are a perfect example of what was wrong with "modern rock" radio in 2001. Utterly homogenous and virtually interchangable with any number of here today, gone tomorrow one-hit wonders that have emerged in the preceding few years, the L.A.-based quintet has the radio formula down to the letter: take a bunch of reasonably decent-looking 20somethings; force feed them a steady diet of Matchbox Twenty, Third Eye Blind, and Eve 6; exchange canned melodrama for passion and depth; then polish to a slick, glossy sheen and watch as the highly coveted teen dollars roll in. You can't really blame the Calling for wanting to cash in: they obviously invest every ounce of energy into songs like the pseudoanthemic "Unstoppable" and the requisite radio ballad, "Wherever You Will Go," but there is not one element here -- from the quiet/loud verse/chorus staple to frontman Alex Band's watered-down, Eddie Vedder-inspired sensitive guy wailings -- that has not been done before. And done much, much better.
Track Lists
01. Unstoppable
02. Nothing's Changed
03. Wherever You Will Go
04. Could It Be Any Harder
05. Final Answer
06. Adrienne
07. We're Forgiven
08. Things Don't Always Turn Out That Way
09. Just That Good
10. Thank You
11. Stigmatized
12. Wherever You Will Go (Live)
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