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When they deputed six year back, Sum 41 were pretty likable and pretty ordinary - just goofy, popwise Canadians down with vintage metal, Blink-182 and dick jokes. Since then, Deryck Whibley married Avril Lavigne, and the band got famous and lost a guitarist, but Sum 41 haven't exactly taken their sound to new heights: Underclass Hero is long on openhearted tunes about broken homes, youthful alienation and such, which draw on every pop-punk device you could think of, including arena-size choruses and the same shimmery keyboard textures Blink used on their "mature" record four years back. When it works - as on the straight-ahead barnburner "King of Contradiction" and the anthemic anti-Bush screed "The Jester" - the band's expertise is admirable. But melodrama drags down several cuts, including the absentee-dad lament "Dear Father," and in some form or another, you've heard all these songs before.
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Track List
- Underclass Hero
- Walking Disaster
- Speak Of The Devil
- Dear Father
- Count Your Last Blessings
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Ma Poubelle (track not available in Rhapsody)
- March Of The Dogs
- The Jester
- With Me
- Pull The Curtain
- King Of Contradiction
- Best Of Me
- Confusion And Frustration In Modern Times
- So Long Goodbye
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