Track Listing

1. Boom Boom Pow
2. Rock That Body
3. Meet Me Halfway
4. Imma Be
5. I Gotta Feeling
6. Alive
7. Missing You
8. Ring-A-Ling n
9. Party All The Time
10. Out Of My Head New
11. Electric City
12. Showdown
13. Now Generation
14. One Tribe
15. Rockin To The Beat
16. Mare Album

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6 in Music
• Released on: 2009-06-08
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .24 pounds
• Running time: 74 minutes

CD Description
Though the title of The Black Eyed Peas' suggests their career coming to an end after over 27 million album sales, it actually stands for 'The Energy Never Dies'. The album's producer Will.I.Am has stated that, if anything, the album is the beginning of a new concept, one reflective of the digital download generation. Musically, the group sticks to their established slick, pop-funk sound, with the lead single 'Boom Boom Pow' standing out as a typically boisterous and dramatic hip-hop fusion.

Customer Reviews

A Good Pit Stop
We bought this on the way from Aberdeen to London at a service station in Warwick
'I Gotta Feeling', 'Boom Boom Pow' and 'Party all the time' are the best tracks and were immediately our favourites.

The others grow on you - except for Imma Bee which we never quite got into !

Here's our scores out of 10 - Bear in mind that these are average scores from everyone (4 of us) in the car, aged between 11 and 42 - It's difficult to please all of the people all of the time !


Boom Bom Pow - 9
Rock that body - 6
Meet me half way - 9
Imma Bee - 1
I gotta feeling -11
Alive - 7
Missing You - 8
Ring-A-Ling - 6
Party all the time -10
Out of my head - 5
Electric City - 3
Showdown - 8
Now Generation - 7
One Tribe - 9
Rockin' To the beat - 5
Mare - 6

Managing The Risk
Reinvention cannot take place without some degree of risk.
BEP have taken risks aplenty with their latest release 'The End'
("The Energy Never Dies") and the results are hugely satisfying.

The slinky shift from all purpose polished pan-world pop
to a harder-edged synthetic sound has come as a nice surprise.

Mr. am and his cohorts seem very much at home in their new
reincarnation. They will doubtless lose some of their hardcore
devotees but for those with a more open mind and ears there are
many pleasures to be found in this generous sixteen song collection.

In 'Meet Me Halfway', with its dance-friendly beat and seductive central
vocal performance from the inimitable Ms Ferguson, is as near-perfect
a pop song as you will be likely to hear this summer.

'One Tribe', with its naive but sincere one-world message is a positive
anthem for the noughties - no bad thing in such dark times !

One can almost imagine some of these compositions having been conceived
in whatever the transatlantic equivalent to a suburban bedroom might be.
Relatively simple resources economically and effectively employed.

Technology harnessed to refined and competent pop sensibility comes together
in rousing form in what is arguably the album's finest track 'Gotta Feeling'.
If it doesn't make you feel like dancing then you haven't got a heart.
(Mrs Wolf proudly demonstrated her recently acquired pole-dancing class skills
to me with this number - a truly perfect wonder to behold !)

I have never been a big fan of synthesised vocal treatments but somehow they
seem to work here when managed by songsmiths of such strong talent and calibre.
'Alive' is a vividly realised case in point. The balance between
artifice and reality is consummately managed. Ms F once again on top form.

'Missing You' manages to combine the gritty urban-groove of its loping
verses with a Motown-like chorus of uplifting and genuinely affecting pathos.

All-in-all a thoroughly splendid show from a fine little band
who took a chance in flying off in a new direction.

The evidence supports the view that it was a risk more than worth taking.

Highly Recommended.

The end of the old sound
This may not be a popular view, but every time a BEP album comes out I think it's fresh and new, but a year later I can't be bothered with it because it sounds a bit stale to me. Could be that by naming themselves after food, the Black Eyed Peas have got it spot on - as they are masters at producing fresh new sounds, which (in my opinion) have no longevity to them. If you think I'm talking rubbish by saying this, they've actually acknowledged this is true themselves in a commitment they have made to keep shaking up the production of the tracks on this album and coming up with newer versions through their website.

So then, I find myself yet again loving a new BEP album and wondering if this time it'll last.

This album changes style dramatically, and many people won't like it - but probably just as many people will love it. Boom Boom Pow is not a fluke - the BEPs have definitely gone down the synth/dance route - although there are still moments where the old BEPs of Elephunk hang on.

I agree with The Wolf's review, as I think he puts it very well.

Standout tracks for me include Boom Boom Pow, Imma Be, Missing You and Meet Me Halfway.