Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me Is Gone

Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me Is Gone
Studio album by The Walkmen
Released March 26, 2002
Recorded 2001
Genre Post-punk revival
Length 50:49
Label Startime International
Producer The Walkmen, Greg Talenfeld
The Walkmen chronology

Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me Is Gone
(2002)
Bows + Arrows
(2004)
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Pitchfork Media (8.7/10) 4/8/2002
Robert Christgau (C+) link
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Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me Is Gone is the debut album by The Walkmen. The album received generally positive reviews, especially from independent music reviewers. The song "We've Been Had" was featured in commercials for the Saturn Ion.

The cover is a detail of a Lewis W. Hine photograph, called Newsies at Skeeter's Branch, St. Louis, Missouri, 11:00 am, May 9, 1910.

Track listing

  1. "They're Winning" – 2:06
  2. "Wake Up" – 4:13
  3. "Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me Is Gone" – 4:12
  4. "Revenge Wears No Wristwatch" – 3:20
  5. "The Blizzard of '96" – 3:01
  6. "French Vacation" – 4:31
  7. "Stop Talking" – 4:07
  8. "We've Been Had" – 3:29
  9. "Roll Down the Line" – 3:11
  10. "That's the Punch Line" – 3:13
  11. "It Should Take a While" – 6:22
  12. "Rue the Day" – 3:36
  13. "I'm Never Bored" – 5:28