The Other Side (Godsmack EP)

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The Other Side
Godsmack - The-Other-Side.jpg
EP by Godsmack
Released March 16, 2004
Recorded 2003
Genre Acoustic rock
Length 29:57
Label Universal, Republic
Producer Sully Erna, David Bottrill
Godsmack chronology
Faceless
(2003)Faceless2003		 The Other Side
(2004)		 IV
(2006)IV2006
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 3/5 stars[1]
Entertainment Weekly B[2]
Rolling Stone 2/5 stars[3]

The Other Side is an acoustic EP by the band Godsmack, released on March 16, 2004. It includes several previously released songs re-recorded as acoustic versions, as well as three new acoustic tracks.

One new song, "Touché", featured Godsmack's first guitar player, Lee Richards, as well as John Kosco, who were at that time in the now defunct band Dropbox,[4] The other two new acoustic tracks were "Running Blind" and "Voices" which are old songs that Sully Erna wrote but never recorded.[5]

The song "Asleep" is actually an acoustic, shorter and calmer version of "Awake" from the band's second album Awake.

Recording

According to Sully Erna, the band decided to do an acoustic record because they have always messed around with acoustic versions of their music and gotten great reactions to it. "Reworking the songs this way shows a different side of the band."[6]

The Other Side was recorded in a Hawaiian studio with producer David Bottrill, who has worked with the group on "I Stand Alone", and on their third studio album Faceless.[6]

Track listing

No. Title Writer(s) Length
1. "Running Blind"   Erna 3:59
2. "Re-Align"   Erna 4:23
3. "Touché" (featuring John Kosco and Lee Richards) Erna, Kosco, Richards 3:38
4. "Voices"   Erna 3:44
5. "Keep Away"   Erna 4:49
6. "Spiral"   Erna 5:21
7. "Asleep"   Erna 3:58
Total length:
 29:57

Sales

The Other Side debuted at number five on the Billboard 200, selling 98,000 copies in its first week,[7] and the album would go on to sell over half million copies in the United States. The album has been certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), with excess sales of 500,000 copies.[8]

Personnel

Chart positions

Certification

Region Certification Sales/shipments
United States (RIAA)[11] Gold 500,000

^shipments figures based on certification alone

References

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