As Cruel as School Children

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As Cruel As School Children
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Studio album by Gym Class Heroes
Released July 25, 2006
Genre Hip-Hop
Label Fueled by Ramen
Atlantic Records
Professional reviews
Gym Class Heroes chronology
The Papercut Chronicles
(2005)		 As Cruel as School Children
(2006)		 Music on a CD
(2007)


As Cruel as School Children is the second Gym Class Heroes album released by Fueled by Ramen. It was released on July 25, 2006. A second version of the album, released on November 4, 2006 additionally contains the single "Cupid's Chokehold" (a different recording of the song was featured on their freshman album The Papercut Chronicles). Both versions of these album have a Parental Advisory sticker on them.

[edit] Track listing

  1. 1st Period: "The Queen and I" [3:14]
  2. 2nd Period: "Shoot Down the Stars" [3:38]
  3. 3rd Period: "New Friend Request" [4:14]
  4. 4th Period: "Clothes Off!!" (featuring Patrick Stump) [3:55]
  5. Lunch: "Sloppy Love Jingle Part 1" [1:52]
  6. 6th Period: "Viva la White Girl" [3:53]
  7. 7th Period: "7 Weeks" (featuring William Beckett) [3:51]
  8. 8th Period: "It's OK, but Just this Once!" [3:10]
  9. Study Hall: "Sloppy Love Jingle Part 2" [1:01]
  10. 10th Period: "Biters Block" [3:48]
  11. Yearbook Club: "Boys In Bands Interlude" [0:59]
  12. 12th Period: "Scandalous Scholastics" [4:17]
  13. 13th Period: "On My Own Time (Write On!)" [4:42]
  14. Intramurals: "Cupid's Chokehold" (featuring Patrick Stump) [3:58] (only on The Re-Release)
  15. Detention: "Sloppy Love Jingle Part 3" [2:15]

[edit] Personnel

[edit] Additional Notes

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  • The "Living MySpace" themed video for "New Friend Request" was directed by Andrew Paul Bowser and Joseph M. Petrick, Bowser also directed The Papercut Chronicles version of the Cupid's Chokehold video.
  • "The Queen and I" is going to be the first single for this album.
  • The song "7 Weeks" features The Academy Is... vocalist William Beckett.
  • "Clothes Off!" features Fall Out Boy vocalist Patrick Stump. The hook for the song is from Jermaine Stewart's 1986 single "We Don't Have To Take Our Clothes Off."
  • "Biter's Block" features Speech of Arrested Development
  • On the back of the CD case, track 5, there is a typo "Sloppy Love Jingle Pt. 1" written as "Sloppy Live jingle Pt. 1", this was fixed on the rerelease. In addition, when the album is played on a computer, all three "Sloppy Love Jingle" appear as "Sloppy Live Jingle".
  • The song "The Queen and I" has a new video, which is in rotation on MTV, MTV2, Fuse, and Muchmusic.
  • The band re-released this album, which includes the new remix of "Cupid's Chokehold".[1]
  • The chorus for "Cupid's Chokehold" comes from the single "Breakfast in America" by Supertramp and is sung by Patrick Stump from Fall Out Boy.
  • Stump has appearances on both versions of the video for "Cupid's Chokehold"
  • The group recently went on The Ellen DeGeneres Show to promote the album.
  • The name of the album is a lyric from "Scandalous Scholastics", which is a track on the album.
  • The Track "New Friend Request" has myspace references in the lyrics, including the title of the song.
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