Wednesday, March 19, 2008

MaRcH oF tHe DoGs!

March of the dog to a beat disillusion
Sworn under God breeding panic and confusion
The white flag is down, send in the clowns
The Carnival of Sins is not about to begin

A band formed out of 2 rival bands 41 days into summer, Sum 41 has released five studio albums, one live album (under two different titles), two live DVDs, more than fifteen singles, and sold over 10 million albums worldwide.
On June 27th, 2000, Half Hour of Power was the first album they released on Big Rig Records. The album was dedicated to the band "Closet Monsters"- and i quote- "in loving memory". The songs include :

"Grab The Devil By The Horns And F***Him Up The A**" – 1:06
"Machine Gun" – 2:29
"What I Believe" – 2:49
"*T.H.T." – 0:43
"
Makes No Difference" – 3:10
"Summer" – 2:40
"32 Ways To Die" – 1:30
"Second Chance For Max Headroom" – 3:51
"
Dave's Possessed Hair/It's What We're All About" – 3:47
"Ride The Chariot To The Devil" – 0:55
"Another Time Around" – 6:52 (3:19 without added silence to make album length thirty minutes)
*T.H.T. stands for Tables Have Turned
"Makes No Difference" and "Dave's Possessed Hair" are both singles.
Three of the songs on the record, "What I Believe", "Another Time Around" and "Summer" were all originally featured in their first-stage demo versions on the "
Rock Out With Your Cock Out" demo tape.

All Killer No Filler, Sum 41's first full-legnth album, was released on May 8th, 2001. The album features lyrics with various subjects such as society, laziness, self-indulgence, relationships etc.
The songs in this album are:

"Introduction to Destruction" – 0:37
"
Nothing on My Back" – 3:01
"Never Wake Up" – 0:49
"
Fat Lip" – 2:58
"Rhythms" – 2:58
"
Motivation" – 2:50
"
In Too Deep" – 3:27
"Summer" – 2:49
"
Handle This" – 3:37
"Crazy Amanda Bunkface" – 2:15
"All She's Got" – 2:21
"Heart Attack" – 2:49
"
Pain for Pleasure" – 1:
* "
Makes No Difference" - 3:11
The songs "Summer" and "Makes No Difference" were originally from
Half Hour of Power.
The singles are "Makes No Difference", "Fat Lip", "In Too Deep", "Motivation", and "Handle This".

Does This Look Infected? was the third album by Sum 41. It was released on November 26th, 2002, on Island Records. The tracks are:


"
The Hell Song" – 3:18
"
Over My Head (Better Off Dead)" – 2:29
"My Direction" – 2:02
"
Still Waiting" – 2:38
"A.N.I.C." – 0:37
"No Brains" – 2:46
"All Messed Up" – 2:44
"Mr. Amsterdam" – 2:56
"Thanks For Nothing" – 3:04
"Hyper-Insomnia-Para-Condrioid" – 2:32
"Billy Spleen" – 2:32
"Hooch" – 3:28
The bonus tracks are "Reign In Pain (Heavy Metal Jamboree)" (UK Bonus track) and "WWVII Parts 1 & 2" (UK Bonus track)
"Still Waiting", "The Hell Song", and "Over My Head(Better Off Dead)" are the singles from this album.

Chuck is an
album by Sum 41. The album was released on October 12, 2004. The album is named after a UN peacekeeper Chuck Pelletier, who was in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where the band was filming a documentary for War Child Canada. Fighting broke out during the filming and Chuck helped the band evacuate from their hotel during the fighting (Chuck was staying in the same hotel during that time). The album holds the songs:

"Intro"- 0:46
"
No Reason"– 3:04
"
We're All to Blame"– 3:38
"Angels With Dirty Faces" 2:23
"
Some Say"– 3:26
"The Bitter End"– 2:51
"Open Your Eyes"– 2:45
"Slipping Away"– 2:29
"I'm Not The One"– 3:34
"Welcome To Hell"– 1:56
"
Pieces"– 3:02
"There's No Solution"– 3:18
"88"– 4:40
The singles are "
We're All to Blame", "Pieces", "Some Say", "No Reason".
Japanese Tour Edition includes:
Noots – 3:51
Moron – 2:00
Subject To Change- 3:17
The Japanese Tour Edition also contains a bonus disc.
Pieces (Acoustic) - 3:18
No Brains (Acoustic) - 3:04
Over My Head (Better Off Dead) (Acoustic) - 2:46
Some Say (Acoustic) - 3:42
There's No Solution (Acoustic) - 3:28


The current members are
Deryck Whibley (lead vocals, guitar, keyboards), Cone McCaslin (bass guitar, backing vocals), and Steve Jocz (drums, percussion, backing vocals). The band's "classic" line-up is the same except with Dave Baksh on lead guitar and backing vocals.

Underclass Hero is
Sum 41's fifth overall studio album and the first to be released without former guitarist Dave Baksh. The album was first released July 18, 2007 in Japan. It was released under the Island Records label and distributed worldwide by Universal Records, and in Canada by Aquarius Records. The album was released in Australia under Mercury Records. The title's similarity to John Lennon's hit "Working Class Hero" is not a coincidence, according to the band's front man Deryck Whibley, who in an interview with Sun Media claimed Lennon as his favorite songwriter.
Underclass Hero is over ten minutes longer than any previous Sum 41 album. This is a result of there being a total of fourteen tracks (plus one hidden track) compared to the set of twelve or thirteen the band has used before. Mostly however, the length is due to a majority of the songs being much longer than the usual three minutes existing on preceding full-lengths.
"I had to decide what I wanted to say with my music," explains Whibley. "I asked myself all these questions and then just pulled up my own answers and started writing songs based on those themes. I wanted to make an album that meant something important from beginning to end. I wanted it to have relevance and significance. It's not a concept album. It's not about fictional characters in a made-up story but there is a constant idea that runs through the record. It's a deeply personal statement that reflects the confusion and frustration in modern society."
The album has spawned three singles, "
Underclass Hero", "Walking Disaster", and "With Me". Another song called "March of the Dogs" has also been released as an album preview. "Speak of the Devil" and "Count Your Last Blessings" were leaked onto the internet on July 13, 2007. The entire CD was leaked onto file-sharing networks on July 14 2007. Track Listing:

"
Underclass Hero" (Deryck Whibley/Steve Jocz) - 3:14
"
Walking Disaster" - 4:46
"Speak of the Devil" - 3:58
"
Dear Father" - 3:52
"Count Your Last Blessings" - 3:03
"Ma Poubelle" (
Deryck Whibley/Steve Jocz) - 0:55
"
March of the Dogs" - 3:09
"The Jester" - 2:48
"
With Me" - 4:51
"Pull the Curtain" - 4:18
"King of Contradiction" - 1:40
"Best of Me" - 4:25
"Confusion and Frustration in Modern Times" - 3:46
"
So Long Goodbye" - 3:01
"Look at Me" (
Hidden track) - 4:03 (Starts at 2:00)
The bonus tracks are "No Apologies", "This Is Goodbye" and "Take a Look at Yourself".
The singles are "Underclass Hero", "Walking Disaster" and "With Me".

Sum 41 is a new brand of music, the likes of which have never been seen. They can captivate the audience like a modern day Beatles. For those of you who haven't heard them.....you have no idea what you're missing.

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