In Love and Death

In Love and Death
Studio album by The Used
Released September 28, 2004 (2004-09-28)
Studio Foxy Studios, Los Angeles, CA
Genre
Length 41:44
Label Reprise
Producer John Feldmann
The Used chronology
Maybe Memories
(2003)Maybe Memories2003		 In Love and Death
(2004)		 Berth
(2007)Berth2007
Singles from In Love and Death
  1. "Take It Away"
    Released: August 26, 2004
  2. "All That I've Got"
    Released: December 7, 2004
  3. "I Caught Fire"
    Released: February 13, 2005
  4. "Under Pressure"
    Released: April 12, 2005
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic(64/100) [4]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic [1]
Alternative Press [5]
Billboard(positive) [6]
Blender [7]
Drowned in Sound(8/10) [4]
Entertainment WeeklyB [8]
The Guardian [9]
The Metal Forge [10]
NME(4/10) [4]
Q [4]
Robert Christgau [11]
Rolling Stone [12]

In Love and Death is the second studio album by American rock band The Used. It was released on September 28, 2004 and was later certified gold in the United States, indicating over 500,000 copies shipped.[13] It is their most commercially successful album to date.[4] The title and music reference a number of tragic events that surrounded vocalist Bert McCracken during the album's production, notably the death of his pregnant girlfriend. In Love and Death is the final studio album to feature drummer Branden Steineckert.

Writing and recording

The Used recorded fourteen songs during the In Love and Death sessions, with only twelve making the final track list. The two b-sides from the session are "The Back of Your Mouth" and "Into My Web". "The Back of Your Mouth" was released as a bonus track on the album's Japan release and later appeared on their 2008 EP Shallow Believer. "Into My Web" went unreleased it was released on the same EP. A cover of David Bowie's and Queen's song "Under Pressure" recorded with My Chemical Romance was included as a bonus track on copies made from May 2005 onward.

Release and promotion

"Take It Away" was released to radio on August 31, 2004.[14] The album was first released on September 28, 2004. The album was re-released on May 3, 2005 with the addition of a bonus track, a cover of Queen and David Bowie's "Under Pressure", in which they collaborated with My Chemical Romance. The track "Sound Effects and Overdramatics" was featured on the Saw II soundtrack, and "All That I've Got" was used in the Saints Row 2 soundtrack. In August 2009, an instrumental version of the album was released on digital music stores.

Reception

The album has been generally well received by critics. Billboard said that it "continues to straddle the line between street credibility and mainstream success". The Guardian gave it 3 out of 5 stars, saying "Songs of self-abuse and suicide - and those are the sunnier moments - are wrapped in wailing riffs, big choruses and fiddly guitar solos." By February 2006, the album had sold over 642,000 copies.[15]

Track listing

All tracks written by Quinn Allman, Bert McCracken, Jeph Howard and Branden Steineckert, except where noted.

No.TitleLength
1."Take It Away"3:38
2."I Caught Fire"3:25
3."Let It Bleed"3:11
4."All That I've Got"3:59
5."Cut Up Angels"3:47
6."Listening"2:46
7."Yesterday's Feelings"2:48
8."Light with a Sharpened Edge"3:30
9."Sound Effects and Overdramatics"3:29
10."Hard to Say"3:30
11."Lunacy Fringe"3:41
12."I'm a Fake"4:06
Total length:41:44
Japanese bonus track
No.TitleLength
13."The Back of Your Mouth"3:20

Personnel

Charts and certifications

Release history

References

  1. 1 2 3 AllMusic review
  2. ↑ Spanos, Brittany (March 1, 2016). "40 Greatest Emo Albums of All Time". Rolling Stone. Retrieved March 1, 2016.
  3. ↑ "In Love and Death".
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 Critic reviews at Metacritic
  5. ↑ Alternative Press review
  6. ↑ "Billboard review". Archived from the original on October 10, 2004. Retrieved 2013-09-15.
  7. ↑ Blender review Archived March 9, 2005, at the Wayback Machine.
  8. ↑ Richardson, Sean (2004-10-01). "In Love and Death Review". Entertainment Weekly (786): 74. Retrieved 2013-09-15.
  9. ↑ The Guardian review
  10. ↑ The Metal Forge review
  11. ↑ Robert Christgau Consumer Guide
  12. ↑ "Rolling Stone review". Archived from the original on October 2, 2007. Retrieved 2007-08-07.
  13. ↑ RIAA Gold and Platinum Data Archived 2007-06-26 at the Wayback Machine.
  14. ↑ "FMQB Airplay Archive: Modern Rock". Friday Morning Quarterback Album Report, Incorporated. Archived from the original on March 22, 2013. Retrieved October 30, 2016.
  15. ↑ Kohli, Rohan (February 15, 2006). "Soundscan Results: Week Ending 2/12/06". absolutepunk.net. Retrieved February 12, 2016.
  16. ↑ "australian-charts – The Used – In Love and Death". australian-charts. Retrieved 2011-07-26.
  17. ↑ "The Used - Chart History - Canadian Albums". Billboard. Retrieved 2011-07-26.
  18. ↑ "Chart Log UK (1994–2008) U2 – Utopia". Zobbel. Retrieved 2011-07-26.
  19. ↑ "The Used - Charts History - Billboard 200". Billboard. Retrieved 2011-07-26.
  20. ↑ "ARIA Charts - Accreditations - 2005 Albums". ARIA. Retrieved 26 July 2011.
  21. ↑ "CRIA Database Search for The Used". CAN. Archived from the original on 17 January 2010. Retrieved 26 July 2011.
  22. ↑ "Certified Awards Search". BPI. Archived from the original on 17 January 2010. Retrieved 26 July 2011.
  23. ↑ "RIAA Gold and Platinum Search". RIAA. Retrieved 26 July 2011.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.