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Your Favorite Weapon

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  • Artist: Brand New
  • Rating: StarStarHalf Star
  • Release Date: October 09, 2001
  • Type: Lyrics are included with the album, Enhanced CD-ROM
  • Genre: Rock

Review

Brand New is bitter about ex-girlfriends. Just how bitter? The lyrics to just about any song on their debut will give you an inkling, especially "Seventy Times 7," where they grieve: "Have another drink and drive yourself home/I hope there's ice on all the roads/And you can think of me when you forget your seat belt and again when your head goes through the windshield." Aside from all the excessive post-breakup angst, Brand New's emotive pop-punk holds up nicely among the big list of its contemporaries. There are several upbeat anthems with three-part harmonies, though a few ballads break up the high energy. They pay respect to post-punk in "Mix Tape," where they mention the Smiths, while cribbing from the Cure's "Close to Me" in "Logan to Government Center." The repeating refrain of "This isn't high school" in "Last Chance to Lose Your Keys" at least acknowledges that they've grown up, although in the closing singalong "Soco Amaretto Lime" they declare, "I'm gonna stay 18 forever." You'll probably feel 18 listening to this. ~ Kenyon Hopkin, All Music Guide

Tracks

Track TitleComposersPerformersTime
The Shower Scene Brand New (2:24)
Jude Law and a Semester Abroad (Lyrics) Brand New (3:40)
Sudden Death in Carolina (Lyrics) Brand New (3:02)
Mix Tape (Lyrics) Brand New (3:58)
Failure by Design (Lyrics) Brand New (3:15)
Last Chance to Lose Your Keys (Lyrics) Brand New (3:25)
Logan to Government Center (Lyrics) Brand New (3:03)
The No Seatbelt Song Brand New (4:30)
Seventy Times 7 (Lyrics) Brand New (3:33)
Secondary (Lyrics) Brand New (3:01)
Magazines (Lyrics) Brand New (2:50)
Soco Amaretto Lime (Lyrics) Brand New (4:46)

Credits

John Naclerio (Engineer), Juan Bautista Sánchez García (Engineer), Mike Sapone (Producer), Juan Garcia (Engineer), Mike Sapone (Engineer), Alan Douches (Mastering), Brian Lane (Engineer), Brand New (Producer)
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Your Favorite Weapon
Studio album by Brand New
Released October 9, 2001
Recorded Sapone Studios
Genre Pop punk
Length 41:27
Label Triple Crown (CD)
Iodine Recordings (LP)
Producer Mike Sapone
Brand New
Professional reviews
Brand New chronology
Your Favorite Weapon
(2001)		 Brand New/Safety in Numbers Split EP
(2002)
Alternate cover
Vinyl cover
Singles from Your Favorite Weapon
  1. "Jude Law and a Semester Abroad"
    Released: June 2, 2003

Your Favorite Weapon (2001) is the debut full-length album by Long Island-based band Brand New.

The album consists largely of power chord-heavy pop-punk songs, detailing the highs and lows of teenage relationships and experiences. As of 2009, the band has begun to perform some tracks from this release more frequently, such as "The Shower Scene"; "Jude Law and a Semester Abroad"; "Mixtape"; "The No Seatbelt Song"; "Seventy Times 7" and "Soco Amaretto Lime".[1]

The song title "Seventy Times 7" in Your Favorite Weapon comes from a verse in the Holy Bible - Matthew 18:22 - where Jesus tells Peter he must forgive his brother "seventy times seven times" - "Then Peter came and said to him, "Lord, if another member of the church sins against me, how oft should I forgive? As many as seven times?" Jesus said to him, "Not seven times, but, I tell you, seventy times seven times.". The song is about a disagreement between Jesse Lacey and childhood friend John Nolan, then-guitarist in Taking Back Sunday. Taking Back Sunday later released "There's No 'I' in Team," which is their side of the story. Lacey and Nolan are now on good terms again and are well past the issue.

A line in "The Shower Scene" (which itself is a reference to Alfred Hitchcock's film Psycho) which reads "It's time for you to choose / The bullet or the chapstick" is an allusion to a speech by Malcolm X entitled "The Ballot or the Bullet".

In August 2002, Iodine Recordings released Your Favorite Weapon on vinyl along with an extra track, "...My Nine Rides Shotgun", a song from the band's early days. This is also available as a bonus track on the Japanese release of the album. This vinyl pressing was done on blue vinyl, and is exceedingly rare. The few copies that do surface online tend to fetch prices near $200. [2]

The band also stated on numerous occasions that they weren't entirely happy with the recordings of the songs, and in 2002, re-recorded "Jude Law and a Semester Abroad" and released it for free on MP3.com.

The album was finally released in the UK on March 17, 2003, by Eat Sleep Records, followed shortly by the single "Jude Law and a Semester Abroad", released on CD and 7" vinyl, two and a half months later on June 2, 2003. "Jude Law and a Semester Abroad" had also previously been made into a music video, helping the band gain many fans across the world.

On February 9, 2004, Your Favorite Weapon finally made its way to Australia, being released on Below Par Records.

Track listing

Original Release
# Title Length
1. "The Shower Scene"   2:24
2. "Jude Law and a Semester Abroad"   3:41
3. "Sudden Death in Carolina"   3:01
4. "Mix Tape"   3:57
5. "Failure by Design"   3:15
6. "Last Chance to Lose Your Keys"   3:25
7. "Logan to Government Center"   3:02
8. "The No Seatbelt Song"   4:29
9. "Seventy Times 7"   3:32
10. "Secondary"   3:01
11. "Magazines"   2:50
12. "Soco Amaretto Lime"   4:46


Vinyl Release
# Title Length
1. "The Shower Scene"   2:24
2. "Jude Law and a Semester Abroad"   3:40
3. "Sudden Death in Carolina"   3:01
4. "Mix Tape"   3:57
5. "Failure by Design"   3:15
6. "Last Chance to Lose Your Keys"   3:25
7. "Logan to Government Center"   3:02
8. "The No Seatbelt Song"   4:29
9. "Seventy Times 7"   3:32
10. "Secondary"   3:01
11. "Magazines"   2:50
12. "...My Nine Rides Shotgun"   3:16
13. "Soco Amaretto Lime"   4:46


Japanese Release
# Title Length
1. "The Shower Scene"   2:24
2. "Jude Law and a Semester Abroad"   3:40
3. "Sudden Death in Carolina"   3:01
4. "Mix Tape"   3:57
5. "Failure by Design"   3:15
6. "Last Chance to Lose Your Keys"   3:25
7. "Logan to Government Center"   3:02
8. "The No Seatbelt Song"   4:29
9. "Seventy Times 7"   3:32
10. "Secondary"   3:01
11. "Magazines"   2:50
12. "Soco Amaretto Lime"   4:46
13. "...My Nine Rides Shotgun"   3:16


v • d • e
Brand New
Jesse Lacey · Vincent Accardi · Garrett Tierney · Brian Lane · Derrick Sherman
Studio albums
Your Favorite Weapon (2001) · Deja Entendu (2003) · The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me (2006) · Daisy (2009)
EPs
Singles
Related articles

References

  1. ^ Ambrose, Anthony. "inTuneMusic Online: Brand New @ Mahwah 4/3". http://intunemusiconline.com/2009/05/06/brand-new-mahwah-43/. Retrieved 2009-05-06. 
  2. ^ http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=260269649196&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT&ih=016

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