Artist: Used
Category: Rock/Pop, Rock, Enhanced CD
Label: Reprise
Although much is made of this Utah foursome's rebellious background (singer Bert McCracken's former drug addiction and the band's pre-record deal pan-handling street-kid lifestyle), all that's really required to ascertain the level of the band's ... commitment is a close listen to their self-titled debut release. They leap into each song as though their lives depended upon it (maybe they're not so anxious to go back to spare-changing). While they are initially presented as another entrant in the aggro-rock sweepstakes, there's a bit more than that to the Used. Sure, McCracken can let out blood-curdling screams of angst with the best of them, and there's no shortage of blazing guitars and pounding drums, but the Used seem to have spent at least as much time listening to Jane's Addiction as they have to the Deftones. The band's range is made most clear by the acoustic-guitar-and-strings ballad "On My Own" and the melodic piano motif at the end of the closing song "Pieces Mended."
Recorded at Foxy Studios, Marina Del Rey, California and Olympic Studios, London, England.
Track List:
01. Maybe Memories
02. The Taste Of Ink
03. Bulimic
04. Say Days Ago
05. Poetic Tragedy
06. Buried Myself Alive
07. A Box Full Of Sharp Objects
08. Blue And Yellow
09. Greener With The Scenery
10. Noises And Kisses
11. On My Own
12. Pieces Mended
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