Always Never the Same | 
| Artist: George Strait
Label: Mca Nashville
Category: Music
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Rating:  90 reviews
Sales Rank: 37661
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.8 x 0.4
MPN: 70050
UPC: 008817005027
EAN: 0008817005027
ASIN: B00000I5M7
Release Date: March 2, 1999
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| Tracks:
| • | Meanwhile | | • | Write This Down | | • | That's the Truth | | • | What Do You Say to That | | • | Peace of Mind | | • | That's Where I Wanna Take Our Love | | • | Always Never the Same | | • | One of You | | • | I Look at You | | • | 4 Minus 3 Equals Zero |
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George Strait's work in the '90s is like a hall of mirrors: each new million-seller mirrors the previous million-seller, which mirrors the one that came before. And yet the master's touch never fails, and the music charms and sometimes thrills. Drawing again on his steady stable of writers--Jim Lauderdale, Dean Dillon, Steve Bogard, and Jeff Stevens--and adding Melba Montgomery's careful pen, Strait's latest is a fitting end to a decade he helped define for country music. The material isn't especially impressive given the routine, radio-safe themes, and Strait's band--the creme de la creme of Nashville (Randy Scruggs, Stuart Duncan, Paul Franklin)--plays impeccably but with little distinction. Still, even the middling material, delivered in Strait's lush, plangent tenor, has hit potential. Except for the two-beer ballad "That's the Truth" (one to drink, one to cry into), which explores the borders of deception and honesty, and the soaring, climactic "Meanwhile," which very convincingly weaves reality and fantasy, Always Never the Same is good but never great, consistent but never classic. --Roy Kasten
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 "WRITE THIS DOWN" AN EXCELLENT GEORGE CD January 2, 2005
David Brown
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This particular CD is excellent(Although it does not have western swing music on it), and although not quite as good as mid 80s- early 90s George, it is still an great CD, with songs such a "Write This Down", "Meanwhile", the title track, "4 minus 3 Equals Zero", and the best of all "One Of You" getting 10/10 stars, and no weak tracks, means "Write This Down", you have another excellent GS CD.
Still another excellent George Strait record December 18, 1999
Ken Schoonover, Jr. (Springdale, AR United States)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Although I didn't become a really big George Strait fan until I saw him in the movie "Pure Country", I think George has always put out excellent records. His latest effort, Always Never The Same, is no exception.The initial hit single from the album, "Meanwhile", is a classic George Strait country song. The waltzing tempo is reminiscent of one of George's early hit records, "You Look So Good In Love", although "Meanwhile" is a bit slower. And what would a Strait album be without at least one variation on the lost-love theme? Besides "Meanwhile", this record includes two other songs in that same vein, "That's The Truth" and "4 Minus 3 Equals Zero", with the latter song having the added dimension of a marital breakup. A Strait album is not all cry-in-your-beer, though. From this album, "Write This Down", "One Of You", and the title song, "Always Never The Same", are up-tempo songs that I think will be danced to on a lot of dance floors. Furthermore, George has three positive love songs on this record, "I Look At You", "That's Where I Wanna Take Our Love", and "What Do You Say To That". This collection is listenable and well put together. In Always Never The Same, George Strait has still another excellent record.
Still another excellent record from George March 24, 2002
Ken (Olathe, KS, U.S.A.)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Though I didn't become a big fan of George Strait until I saw him in the movie Pure Country, I think George has put out some excellent records. His '99 album Always Never The Same is no exception.
The record's initial hit single, "Meanwhile", is a classic George Strait country song. The waltzing tempo on the song is reminiscent of one of George's early hit songs, "You Look So Good In Love", although "Meanwhile" is a bit slower. And what would an album by George be if it didn't have at least one lost-love song on it? Besides "Meanwhile", this record includes two other songs with the lost-love theme, "That's The Truth" and "4 Minus 3 Equals Zero", with the latter song having the added dimension of a marital breakup.
A Strait album is not all cry-in-your-beer, though. On this album, "Write This Down", "One Of You", and the title song "Always Never The Same" are fun, up-tempo songs that I think will be danced to on a lot of dance floors. Furthermore, George has three positive love songs on this record: "I Look At You", "That's Where I Wanna Take Our Love", and "What Do You Say To That". This is a listenable, well-put-together album, like practically everything George has done. George has still another excellent record in Always Never The Same.
Write THIS Down...This album is great! April 30, 2000
Tokay (Northern California)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
George Strait provided one of his best efforts in the album "Always Never The Same." The best song from the Album, "Write This Down" was Number One in country music for FOUR consecutive weeks. Only "Amazed" from the ONE HIT WONDER group Lonstar, was number 1 longer (it was played over and over and over and over...). "Write This Down" was written by Dana Hall and the Late Kent Robbins - who was one of the most talented and class-act songwriters in Nashville for 25 years. George did the song justice. But I am AMAZED that the CMA did not even nominate it for song of the year! In my books it was! Great album and a lot of fun.
A Must-have December 11, 1999
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is the far most best CD Strait has put out. This Cs is a must have for all you Strait fans out there. All the songs on this CD are great I especially like the song "Write this down. I would like to add to all Strit fans ya got to love this bcuz afterall he is the King of Country Music.
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