Fear by Toad The Wet Sprocket

Pros: A few decent songs, namely "All I Want"
Cons: Sounds very much like other pop rockers from the early 1990's

By the time Toad The Wet Sprocket made any impression on music fans, they’d been working together for five years.

The Santa Barbara, California founded folk-pop-rock band spent the late 1980’s touring bars and honing their musical...

Pros: Lyrics. Vocals. Guitars.
Cons: Misunderstood.

Toad the Wet Sprocket - name taken from Monty Python skit.

This band is one of the most underrated of ALL TIME. Largely due to a lack of attention span or ounce of gray matter between the ears of the common alt-music (which Toad is not)...

Pros: Great album!!!!
Cons: Not one single flaw!

Long before we had groups like Dave Mathews, Matchbox Twenty, Three Doors Down and even John Mayer, we had Toad The Wet Sprocket. In 1990/1991, a new sound was breaking through, and alternative was breaking new ground for many people, groups such as ...

Pros: Better production than "Pale", some great songs
Cons: None

Toad the Wet Sprocket broke through and achieved their first measure of mainstream success in 1991 when "Fear" was released. Up until that point, Toad had been the buzz of their hometown of Santa Barbara, California, but had not gotten much exposure...

Pros: All 12 songs
Cons: 2 expletives used in one song

Like the 90's, Toad the Wet Sprocket has come and (recently) gone. Out of the handful of albums the band produced during the decade, "FEAR" was the most notable, elaborate, and consistent of their releases in my opinion. Every song on this...

Pros: excellent lyrics, good sound
Cons: some weak tracks, 4/12 great, another 3 or so good

Toad the Wet Sprocket(name penned by Eric Idle in a Monty Python skit, he came up with it specifically as something that would never be a real band name) is a truly rare find, an early 90's college radio alternative band that actually had great...

Pros: "I Will Not Take These Things For Granted", "Walk on the Ocean"
Cons: Mostly pretentious, hypocritical crap

I was given the album "Fear" as a gift. I had mentioned to my sister I liked the song "Walk on the Ocean", which I had heard on the radio. Not knowing any better, they bought me this album. I now wish that I had not mentioned my enjoyment of that...

Pros: All
Cons: None

Toad the Wet Sprocket’s third album is crammed full of the great hooks and gorgeous melodies that their first two albums (the dreary, dull Bread & Circus and the similarly uneventful Pale) never even hinted at. It’s tempting to brand Toad as an...

Pros: Every songs a winner
Cons: None

This is a good band to be into if you dig Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks movies. They're also pretty cool iffen you're a middle aging white guy who can't listen to Pearl Jam and Soundgarden with the wife and kids. Why's that? The songs are definitely guitar...

Pros: lyrical genius, impeccable melodies
Cons: umm... not long enough?

Fear brings it's listeners through an emotional and melodic rollercoaster. It begins with 'Walk on The Ocean', a song perfect for anyone who ever believed they found paradise and lost it. The song can be interpreted to represent love lost, or dreams...

Pros: Great album to the end!
Cons: Not too long overall

Toad the Wet Sprocket is a unique band in themselves. Each of their songs could fall into an entirely different genre from the previous. The album Fear is no exception. A predecessor to the more popular album "Dulcinea", fear offers what one...