1. Time For Some Action
2. Everyone Nose (All The Girls Standing In The Line For The Bathroom)
3. Windows
4. Anti Matter
5. Spaz
6. Yeah You
7. Sooner or Later
8. Happy
9. Kill Joy
10. Love Bomb
11. You Know What
12. Laugh About It
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The title of N.E.R.D's third album, Seeing Sounds, was inspired by a TV show the ban watched about synaesthesia--the neurological disorder that causes people to experience sounds as colours or objects in their minds. The concept inspired the trio (Pharrell Williams, Chad Hugo, a.k.a. The Neptunes, and their rapping pal Shay Haley) to create a record as if it were a live show, as if the listener were really able to see the band playing. As ideas go, it's a dubious one, but it does give the band the opportunity to dive back into their musical ocean and splash noisily around, leaving listeners soaked and astounded. With the usual disregard for genre, Seeing Sounds opens with bass-heavy low-rider "Time For Some Action", before heading off on an intense roller-coaster ride that takes in the choppy, digi-drum & bass of "Spaz" and the infectious booty-bass of single "Everyone Nose" (a look at Hollywood's cocaine obsession) via a veritable kaleidoscope of colourful sound. "Sooner or Later" is all smooth Motown soul, "Kill Joy" is riff-heavy rock and "Anti Matter" has an Atari crunk feel. This breathless diversity is, of course, what N.E.R.D. are best at, and the good news is that Seeing Sounds can be considered a return to form after the nadir of Fly Or Die; though Whether it stands up to their debut or whether their new experiments ever get beyond the superficial, is another matter entirely. -- Paul Sullivan
Album Description
N.E.R.D. "Seeing Sounds" You already know the story of the Neptunes, Grammy Award winning producers and songwriters Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo, but the N.E.R.D. trio consists of Pharrell Williams, Chad Hugo, and longtime friend and creative wunderkind, Shae Haley. The album is a blistering mash-up of booming hip-hop beats and rollercoastering rock riffs, rumbling crunk rhythms and scintillating soul music. Whereas their first album, "In Search Of...," was an imaginative, exploration of identities, and their second album, "Fly or Die," sought out the range of genres and sounds that have influenced the group, "Seeing Sounds" grinds everything together, evoking a sound that is un-tethered by preconceptions and convention. It is also an album that amplifies the style and attitudes that have made Pharrell, Chad and Shae transcendent cultural icons. "The Neptunes is what we do, but N.E.R.D. is who we are. It's our life" says Pharrell. The three of them together combine for uninhibited explorations of sounds, emotions and truth, adhering to no agenda, subscribing to no rules. N.E.R.D. is the way they live their life, they way they see the world.
Album Description
2008 release release from the Hip Hopsters. Seeing Sounds, their third album, is a blistering mash-up of booming Hip Hop beats and rollercoastering Rock riffs, rumbling Crunk rhythms and scintillating Soul music. Whereas their first album, In Search Of... was an imaginative, exploration of identities, and their second album, Fly Or Die, sought out the range of genres and sounds that have influenced the group, Seeing Sounds grinds everything together, evoking a sound that is un-tethered by preconceptions and convention. It is also an album that amplifies the style and attitudes that have made Pharrell, Chad and Shae transcendent cultural icons.
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Seeing Sounds
- Audio CD: 0 pages (2008-06-10)
- Publisher: Interscope Records
- Label: Interscope Records
- Format: Explicit Lyrics
- Studio: Interscope Records
- Average Customer Review:
 based on 33 reviews
- Sales Rank in Music: #539
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: SOONER OR LATER 2008-08-30
Comment: SOONER OR LATER EVERYONE REALIZES THE GENIOUS OF N*E*R*D ITS A FACT. WHEN THEY FIRST CAME OUT I DIDNT GIVE THEM A CHANCE BECAUSE OF THE ROCK ASPECT BUT I WENT TO THE GLOW IN THE DARK TOUR WITH THEM KANYE LUPE AND RIHANNA AND THEY BLEW MY MIND. AS SOON AS I GOT HOME I ORDERED THE FIRST 2 ALBUMS THEN WHEN SEEING SOUNDS DROPPED I BOUGHT A COUPLE COPIES OF IT. SEEING SOUNDS IS EPIC LIKE A MOVIE WITH EACH SONG BEING A DIFFERENT SCENE. THIS IS ONE OF THOSE ALBUMS THAT WHEN YOU FIRST BUY IT YOU NEED TO TURN THE VOLUME ALL THE WAY UP CLOSE YOUR EYES AND LISTEN TO IT. I SWEAR I WAS SEEING SOUNDS YO NO LIE.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: Out of my element but the beats are creative 2008-08-25
Comment: N.E.R.D. always takes me out of my element. I hear Pharrell on R&B and hip hop tracks, so I have to erase that from my mind when I hear a N.E.R.D. album. Make no mistake about it. I really enjoy the Neptunes, but it's N.E.R.D. that makes me say "What happened?" It always takes a wavy boatride through rock, soul, hip hop, and a little bit of blues. The lyrics are thoughtless (ex. "you punk b**ch*" on "Anti-Matter", "Everyone Nose" rhyming about women by the bathroom, "Do you have some black inside you? Would you like some?", "her a** is a spaceship I want to ride"). What? If people listened to most of the words on this album, it'd be stupid. But it's the creativity of the BEATS that attracts me to the music (ex. "She Wants to Move" is great for a model runway). Unfortunately, I can't buy an album off of beats alone. I need the lyrics to challenge me or at least be interesting. A lot of it sounds like a fun basement freestyling session, so if that's your cup of tea, this is the album for you. If not, you might want to listen to a preview of this one first to make sure it's something you'd want to relisten to.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: No-one Ever Really Dissapoints 2008-08-10
Comment: N.E.R.D.'s Seeing Sounds is my first time listening to anything released from them. I've heard of the band but never had a chance to ever sit down and experience what they are bringing. Plus all I knew really was that Pharrell was the lead member of the group and knowing how good of a producer he is next to Timbaland, it was very interesting to find out about them.
So I'm surfing on YouTube and it seems some song called Everyone Nose was one of the Most Active Videos and I just listened to 30 seconds of the song, skipped around the clip and exit out-I did not even give it a chance but then I remembered Kanye West singing the chorus on TMZ and I went back t the video and actually liked it. I actually knew what Everyone Nose meant which mostly others didn't and called it garbage-its explaining cocaine addiction obviously and the chorus is just catchy which you can't go wrong with anyway because we all want to repeat a line without it being too complicated or rubbish. Then I heard Spaz on a Microsoft Zune commercial but that was the instrumental but that had me hooked alone after seeing the album cover of their upcoming album I did more research on them and listened to the Spaz single while I dis.
I finally ordered the Seeing Sounds album after thanking YouTubers who uploaded the album because if you are like me-we all deserve a free taste before we spend money on someones work. So I play the CD and the tracks get better from the beginning to end.
Every song on the album seems to always has this 'Pharrell Conclusion' before the end and it always takes you in deep. While songs like Time For Some Action, Everyone Nose, Windows and Anti Matter are ones having to get used to-they have the exact mark I just explained.
Seeing Sounds does a good job in providing Alternative Rock, Funk, Experimental and Hip-Hop and I think this is a good move for any artist because when you go Alternative, your saying you know pleasing everyone is impossible but your doing your best to reach out to all people of different taste in music. Here is my Top 5 from the album and why-
1. Happy (This song can be played all day if you want to because the title says it all and you can't go wrong with an all around 'Feel Good' track)
2. Laugh About It (Even though its the last song of the album, you'll love the guitar in the background playing and the way the song and lyrics revolves around it is amazing)
3. You Know What (Pharrell uses a unique lyric flow on this one and has a nice sense of Funk in it)
4. Love Bomb (Lets be honest-'Love' is the only thing that can save us and as you listen closely, you would look at the crisis in the world an repeat the exact same words)
5. Spaz (You just can't ignore the the the production that went into this-definitely a party and club choice.
The whole album is enjoyable but you'll mostly skip to Spaz and continue from there. Congratulations, N.E.R.D.-you released a classic.
-Christopher Winters :)
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: Dope rock/rap/R&B fusion from NERD........... 2008-08-10
Comment: Only slip up was adding track 11(A American Boy like record. Other than that this is a very solid album.
Top Songs:
Anti Matter
Spaz
Sooner or Later (Tour-De-Force, killer guitar,the song starts off slow and then builds up to this mind blowing finale)
Happy
Kill Joy
Love Bomb
Laugh About It
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
Customer Rating: 
Summary: Not bad, for what it is 2008-08-10
Comment: As with many of my "Pop" music purchases, this one was made because it was Amazon's MP3 Daily Deal. I am not very knowledgeable when it comes to this particular genre (it all sounds like "rap" to me), so I read other opinions in order to gain some knowledge as to what I was listening for.
The basis is a looped (minimalistic, John Cage influenced) track very common in hip-hop, rap, techno, dance & other pop music styles. There are original lyrics, although the tendency is to repeat phrases over & over (also part of the minimalistic influence?).
The first track is probably the most original of the entire recording. You can see that the artists made a real effort to leave the listener with an unanswered question in their mind, and that's what good music does... asks questions... sometimes resolving/answering, and sometimes not.
The second portion of the album gives almost some old-time Marvin Gaye or Isley Brother influenced vocals, with gentle crooning, nice harmonies, and easy, driving beats. But there is definitely a modern jive to the thing with more of the electronic mastering throughout the album.
I read the sentiment that listeners would prefer that the two styles were combined, but I am unsure how that would be done without creating an unpleasant chaos. I actually like the different styles. It helps to keep my attention on the music.
Good job. Don't know that I'd buy from these guys again, but it was worth the $3.99.
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