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Camino Palmero is the debut studio album recorded by American alternative band the Calling. It was released by RCA Records on July 10, 2001. It contains their hit single "Wherever You Will Go". The title of the album comes from a Los Angeles street where band members Alex Band and Aaron Kamin first met. The record has many grunge influences and also has a lot of guitar solos.
Camino Palmero peaked at number 36 on Billboard 200 and was certified Gold by RIAA.
The album deals with romantic love, relationships, break up and betrayal.
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 the "here today, gone tomorrow" one-hit wonders that emerged during the turn of the century, the L.A.-based quintet had 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 invested 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 on this album -- from the quiet/loud verse/chorus staple to frontman Alex Band's watered-down, Eddie Vedder-inspired sensitive guy wailings -- that hasn't been done before. And done much, much better.
The cover art of the album represents the platforms 5 and 6 of the Santa Maria Novella railway station in Florence, Italy.
Track listing
1. Unstoppable - 3:59
2. Nothing's Changed - 4:44
3. Wherever You Will Go - 3:28
4. Could It Be Any Harder - 4:41
5. Final Answer - 4:34
6. Adrienne - 4:30
7. We're Forgiven - 4:31
8. Things Don't Always Turn Out That Way - 4:11
9. Just That Good - 3:54
10. Thank You - 2:58
11. Stigmatized - 4:31
The Calling
- Alex Band – lead vocals
- Aaron Kamin – lead guitar, backing vocals
- Sean Woolstenhulme – rhythm guitar, backing vocals
- Billy Mohler – bass
- Nate Wood – drums, backing vocals
Additional musicians
- Ron Fair – synthesizer
- Bob Glaub – bass guitar
- Paul Mirkovich – keyboards
- Zac Rae – organ
- Satnam Ramgotra – percussion, tabla
Technical
- Ron Fair – Executive Producer
- Tiago Becker – Assistant Engineer
- Marc Greene – Engineer
- Robert Hadley – Mastering
- Frank Harkins – Art Direction, Design
- Chris Lord – Mixing
- Stephen Marcussen – Mastering
- Doug Sax – Mastering
- Matt Silva – Mixing
- Marc Tanner – Producer
- David Thoener – Engineer, Mixing
Notes
Released: J uly 10, 2001
Recorded: 1999-2001 Studio Cherokee Studios (Hollywood, California)
Genre: Post-grunge, Alternative rock
Length: 46:06
Label - RCA
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