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The View from the Bottom [Digipak]
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Album: The View from the Bottom [Digipak]
# Song Title   Time
1)    C'Mon
2)    You Tonight
3)    Same Shit, Different Drink
4)    Miss You Gone
5)    Broken, The
6)    She Don't Know
7)    Nothing's Free
8)    You Did It
9)    Partner in Crime
10)    Here's to Us
11)    Wall, The
12)    Right This Time
 

Album: The View from the Bottom [Digipak]
# Song Title   Time
1)    C'Mon
2)    You Tonight
3)    Same Shit, Different Drink
4)    Miss You Gone
5)    Broken, The
6)    She Don't Know
7)    Nothing's Free
8)    You Did It
9)    Partner in Crime
10)    Here's to Us
11)    Wall, The
12)    Right This Time
 
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Performer Notes
  • Personnel: Butch Walker (vocals, guitar, piano, percussion); Michael Eisenstein (guitar); Jason Freese (strings, piano, Hammond b-3 organ); Patrick Warren (strings).
  • Audio Mixer: Joe Zook.
  • Recording information: Red Bull Studios, Santa Monica, CA; Ruby Red Productions, Venice, CA.
  • Editor: Ryan Gillmor.
  • Photographers: Arlis Albritton; Chad Sengstock; Lisa Johnson; Kevin Warn; Jeanne Rice; Chris Tennyson; Kevin Baldes.
  • Best known for their 1999 hangover anthem "My Own Worst Enemy," Lit were an unlikely candidate for journeyman rock band of the '90s California pop-punk scene. With a sound that found them lumped alongside such similarly minded "bro-pop" contemporaries as Smash Mouth, blink-182, and Sugar Ray, Lit were overshadowed by their success and seemed destined for the one-hit-wonder dustbin. But that notion doesn't figure in the band's self-effacing sense of humor and obvious knack for coming up with a great hook -- not to mention lead singer A. Jay Popoff's impassioned yelp of a voice. And while Lit have kept a lower profile since the '90s, they have continued to release catchy guitar rock albums, and 2012's The View from the Bottom finds the band returning to its pop-punk roots with a handful of catchy and anthemic party tracks. The album is also the band's first since losing original drummer Allen Shellenberger to a brain tumor in 2009, and one gets the sense that Lit are re-engaged here both emotionally and creatively. Kicking off with the soaring hard-rock number "C'Mon," the album is an immediate ear-catcher, bringing together the group's love of bombastic glam rock production and no-apologies party rock fun. To these ends, we get the exuberant hook-up anthem "You Tonight," the bittersweet midtempo ballad "She Don't Know," and the '80s power pop-inflected "You Did It." Elsewhere, Lit delve into dancey post-punk on the minor-key "Miss You Gone" and the ebullient girlfriend kiss-off number "Nothing's Free." Ultimately, while the album may be about the band's View from the Bottom (whether that be career woes, the loss of a friend, or the bottom of a shot glass), as the title of the rousing set closer implies, Lit definitely got it "Right This Time." ~ Matt Collar
Professional Reviews
Kerrang (Magazine) (p.54) - "[T]hey've not skipped a beat, picking up where they left off on bombastic pop-enamoured rawk with gnarled vocals and knowing lyrical punch..."

Q (Magazine) (p.104) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[T]heir tendency not to take things too seriously endures."
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