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Satellite (P.O.D. album)

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Length
  
53:04

Artist
  
P.O.D.

Label
  
Atlantic Records

Producer
  
Howard Benson, P.O.D.

Release date
  
11 September 2001

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Released
  
September 11, 2001 (2001-09-11)

Recorded
  
March — May 2001 at Bay 7 in Valley Village, California and Sparky Dark in Calabasas, California

Satellite(2001)
  
Payable on Death(2003)

Genres
  
Nu metal, Alternative metal, Rap metal, Hard rock, Rap rock, Reggae rock

Awards
  
Echo Award for Best International Rock/Alternative Group

Similar
  
POD albums, Nu metal albums

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Satellite is the fourth studio album and the second major label release by the band P.O.D.. The album was released on September 11, 2001, debuting at No. 6 on the Billboard 200 chart with over 133,000 copies sold. It spent 5 consecutive weeks in the Top 10 of that chart.

Contents

It went on to sell over 3 million copies in the U.S., and over 7 million worldwide, making it the band's highest-selling album. Satellite was placed at No. 137 on the Billboard's top 200 albums of the decade (2000–2009). It was the 117th best-selling album of 2001 and the 26th best-selling album of 2002 in the United States.

Album information

Satellite produced four singles with music videos; "Alive", "Youth of the Nation", "Boom", and title track, "Satellite".

"Alive" was nominated for the 2002 Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance. Although not released as a single, "Portrait" was nominated for Best Metal Performance at the 2003 Grammy Awards. "Youth of the Nation" also earned a nomination in 2003 for "Best Hard Rock Performance".

Reception

  • Rolling Stone (9/27/01, pp. 67–8) - 4 stars out of 5 - "Explodes beyond the confines of what has become a played-out sound... songs on a passion so fierce they're almost exhausting to listen to.... Without resorting to ham-fisted angst, P.O.D. push all the right emotional buttons."
  • Spin (p. 89) - "[They] sang from the heart about school shootings, losing parents, and being truly alive."
  • Q magazine (1/02, p. 106) - 3 out of 5 stars - "...heavy, angry, and very, very loud....many songs have messages of peace and spirituality....their Gen-X angst sounds genuine..."
  • CMJ (10/1/01, p. 16) - "[Its] honest spiritual subject matter coupled with crack-your-skull riffs work like a well-oiled machine."
  • Revolver put Satellite on its list called "10 Nu-Metal Albums You Need to Own".

    • Track listing

    All tracks written by Sonny Sandoval, Marcos Curiel, Traa Daniels, Wuv Bernardo, except where noted.

  • A special edition re-release was released a year after the original album release, and featured the bonus tracks version

    • MTV Video Music Awards 2002

  • Best Video of the Year for "Alive" (nominated)
  • Best Group Video for "Alive" (nominated)
  • Best Rock Video for "Youth Of The Nation" (nominated)
  • Best Direction for "Alive" (nominated)
  • Best Special Effects for "Alive" (nominated)
  • Viewer's Choice for "Alive" (nominated)

    • 2002 Grammy Awards

  • Best Hard Rock Performance for "Alive" (nomination)

    • 2003 Grammy Awards

  • Best Metal Performance for "Portrait" (nomination)
  • Best Hard Rock Performance for "Youth Of The Nation" (nomination)

    • Songs

    1Set It Off4:17
    2Alive3:24
    3Boom3:08

    References

    Satellite (P.O.D. album) Wikipedia
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