Absolutely NineDays

Flying the Corporate Jet

Released: 2003

Label: Madding Music

Genre: Alternative

Track Listing:

1) 29 Year Old Girls
2) Goodbye
3) Wonderful
4) Something Has Gone Wrong
5) Reality TV
6) Devil You Know
7) Catch Me If You Can
8) The Moment
9) 17 and 33

**) Nothing Better

More Information: Flying the Corporate Jet was released in 2003 after the band saw themselves dropped by Sony's 550 Records and stripped of the rights to their second studio album So Happily Unsatisfied. Flying the Corporate Jet was released by the band on their own label called Madding Music, which was named after their major label debut The Madding Crowd. The album produced two internet singles, 29 Years Old Girls, which reached number 1 on Alernative Addiction.com Top 25 and Reality TV.

Reviews:

Melodic.net: The story about the New York based band Nine Days luckily continues after the chocking dropping from their label Sony just before their second major label album would see the light of day. It was a pretty strange decision in my opinion since their album The Madding Crowd was a good selling one including the world wide hit Absolutely (Story about a girl). But Sony probably didn’t believe in the So Unhappily Satisfied enough to release it. That is really sad cause it’s a fine album almost as good as the 2001 one if you’ll ask me. If 2002 was a miserable year for all us Nine Days fans out there 2003 has been better than I even could have imagined. Not long ago was the nice EP Seventeen minutes and thirty seconds In the dark from John Hampson out, available on his website for a few very well spend $. And if that wasn’t enough with happy news from these Long Island guys we can now get another self release out through their website. This one called Flying the corporate Jet  is a bit longer than the Hampson EP with nine tunes, where both John and the other vocal part from Nine Days, Brian Desveaux, has contributed with songs on. And this is definitely a proof that we still count with the guys and that they haven’t given up after that messy Sony thing, which could have broken any man. And for those who like their previous work this new one won’t disappoint any cause this shows what a nice songwriters and melody makers they are. And like always we got a handful of great ones, which on this pure fresh CD are the opener 29 Old Girls, which is the typical catchy John Hampson tune. If John is the one that have written most songs on the earlier stuff I must say that Brian is the one that this time has contributed with the strongest material. Wonderful and Catch Me if You Can are two excellent examples where we can hear his skills at their best. The final track 17 and 33 must also be mentioned with its cool and a little odd verse that makes me think of Bob Dylan from the 2001 album. Overall an album that fulfils by expectations very well and a must if you’re a fan of melodic modern rock. Buy it today folks at their site to support a bunch of great guys so that we hopefully can see more good CD’s like this out in the future.

Ink 19.com: Nine Days will, in the annals of time, no doubt be unfairly dismissed as mere one-hit wonders. After the massive success of their debut single "Absolutely (Story of a Girl)," the band's follow-up album, So Happily Unsatisfied, never saw the light of day, and Nine Days slipped quietly off the radar.Or, so it seemed. John Hampson and long-time collaborator Brian Desveaux took stock, regrouped and went back to their roots by independently recording and releasing Flying the Corporate Jet in 2003.The result -- like Hampson's recently issued solo EP -- is a triumphant record that refuses to wallow in the lows of Nine Day's recent history, concentrating instead on creating a more mature variation of the band's modern rock sound. There's no blindingly obvious hit single waiting to happen here, but tunes like "29 Year Old Girls" and "Wonderful" retain the duo's remarkable sense of melody and the kind of explosive hooks that could easily make a commercial impact. Hampson's compositions generally display a greater level of quality than Desveaux's, and the contemporary flavored rocker "Something Has Gone Wrong" is no exception to that rule. However, "Reality TV," which takes a wry look at what passes for entertainment these days, shows Desveaux at his best and reveals the only reference to Nine Day's history with former label Sony: "So it was fun / We had this great little song / It went to number one / And then tomorrow . . . gone / And all we could see when we came up for air / Was just a label full of monkeys trying to spike our hair."The rock/country/rap hybrid that is "17 and 33" may not be to everybody's liking, least of all label execs at Sony smarting from the broadside in "Reality TV." One-hit wonders? Not at all. One-hit wonders are those who briefly play the corporate game and are never heard from again, but talent like Hampson's and Desveaux's is truly too good to be stifled. --Andrew Ellis