Much Afraid (studio album) by Jars Of Clay

Much Afraid by Jars Of Clay
Year: 1997
Overall rank: 19,657th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
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67/100 (from 20 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1997 (337th)
Award Top albums of the 1990s (3,245th)
Award Best albums of all time (19,657th)
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Jars Of Clay bestography

Much Afraid is ranked 3rd best out of 19 albums by Jars Of Clay on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Jars Of Clay is Jars Of Clay which is ranked number 6959 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 184.

Jars Of Clay album bestography « Higher ranked (8,794th) This album (19,657th) Lower ranked (39,533rd) »
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Songs on Much Afraid harken back to love and beauty and the absence in my own life, straight on from opener "overjoyed" ("love is the thing i know for sure / and i couldn't need you more now") which is about needing god and god's love in one's life, but is written in a way to apply to other nuances of love in other subjective arenas. I adore the soft, heartfelt plucking at the beginning of "frail"; the light soaring of strings, the building anticipation of a story already being sung through instrumentation, the calm before the flood of emotions. Then "a rose could never lie about the love it brings / and i could never promise to be any of those things" hits me hard, followed by "if i was not so weak / if i not was so cold / if i was not so scared of being broke and growing old / i would be". The lyrics are brief but powerful, especially with the slowing building and ebbing soaring background which ease into a 3 minute instrumental as delicate and heart-tugging as the intro crashing with cymbal-weight near the very end.
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