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Sum 41 broke through with "Fat Lip," which achieved a neat genre hat trick: It was a pop-punk song in which they rapped about their allegiance to heavy metal. The rapping returns on the new album, and there's increased emphasis on metal, which means guitarist Dave "Brownsound" Baksh can try out more adventurous riffs. "Mr. Amsterdam" gets interesting twenty seconds in, when the pop-punk introduction makes way for a flight-of-the-bumblebee guitar line.
Many of these songs aren't as slap-happy as they first seem. But even when Deryck "Bizzy D" Whibley is singing, "Over my head/With something I said/Completely misread/I'm better off dead," the lyrics are a bit too glib to inspire sympathy. In any case, he's more convincing when he's hurling insults, which explains why the album's best song is a half-minute-long session of name-calling that ends with a different sort of analogy: He screams, "You're an asshole!"
(Posted: Nov 19, 2002)
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- Hell Song
- Over My Head (Better Off Dead)
- My Direction
- Still Waiting
- A.N.I.C.
- No Brains
- All Messed Up
- Mr. Amsterdam
- Thanks For Nothing
- Hyper-Insomnia-Para-Condrioid
- Billy Spleen
- Hooch
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No Screen Name writes:
Not quite as fun as "All Killer No Filler" but just as good. This time, more variety and and stronger music. They Can pretty much have success at any genre they try whether it is hip-hop, heavy metal, Alternative or Punk Rock, they can make it good enough to listen to all the time.
Much better than good charlotte or blink-182, Sum 41 is always surprizing and you never know what to expect.
Dec 26, 2006 12:57:29
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