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Tracklist (CD)
| 1 | | Dirty Little Secret | | 3:14 | | 2 | | Stab My Back | | 3:11 | | 3 | | Move Along | | 4:00 | | 4 | | It Ends Tonight | | 4:05 | | 5 | | Change Your Mind | | 3:40 | | 6 | | Night Drive | | 3:26 | | 7 | | 11:11 P.M. | | 3:04 |
See more tracks| 8 | | Dance Inside | | 4:02 | | 9 | | Top Of The World | | 3:25 | | 10 | | Straitjacket Feeling | | 3:38 | | 11 | | I'm Waiting | | 3:37 | | 12 | | Can't Take It | | 2:53 |
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Review
Proof that sometimes, no matter how hard you try to emulate early-Eighties hard-rock bands like Def Leppard, you still end up sounding like Weezer doing Foreigner covers. On the follow-up to their 2002 debut -- which included the sunny, harmony-laden hit "Swing, Swing" -- the All-American Rejects make a real effort to butch up. For starters, singer-bassist Tyson Ritter has learned to temper his habit of sliding into a strained falsetto that made him seem as though he wasn't out of puberty. The midtempo title track, as well as the lead single, "Dirty… Read More Little Secret," are radio-worthy slabs of manicured punk pop with layered riff work that hints at a fascination with the guitar parts on Boston's "More Than a Feeling." And thankfully the Rejects haven't lost their knack for writing propulsive toe-tappers that have just enough adolescent ennui to make it fair to call them emo -- and mean it in the best possible way.
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