Adults!!!: Smart!!! Shithammered!!! And Excited by Nothing!!!!!!! is a studio album by Bomb the Music Industry! which was released digitally on February 8, 2010 via Quote Unquote Records. Adults!!! is the only Bomb the Music Industry! album to not contain samples of television shows, movies, phone messages or other songs between tracks.
| Adults!!!: Smart!!! Shithammered!!! And Excited by Nothing!!!!!!! | ||||
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 The version of the cover used for the vinyl release | ||||
| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | February 8, 2010 | |||
| Genre | Ska punk, pop punk | |||
| Length | 21:40 | |||
| Label | Quote Unquote | |||
| Producer | Bomb the Music Industry!, Jeff Rosenstock | |||
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Background
editA version of "Struggler" was previously released as a single on December 29, 2009.[1] The original version was recorded without a full band in Jeff Rosenstock's bedroom as a tribute to "Sweet Home Cananada", released five years before.[2] It was recorded, mixed and released in only five days.[3]
In a 2015 interview Rosenstock recalled:
I was planning on putting out a series of seven-inch singles after Scrambles, but that became overly complicated and I never did anything. So I had all these songs just fucking sitting there and I couldn't get past them. One night, I went out to see Laura [Stevenson] play and a bunch of the [Bomb the Music Industry!] and [The Arrogant Sons of Bitches] guys were there. I told them I had a bunch of songs and was just going to make another bedroom EP, and they were all like, "Why would you do that? Why don’t we just do it?" and I was like, "But then you'll have to learn all these songs, and we'll have to record it." And they were still saying, "Fuck yeah! Let's just do it." Which was the opposite reaction I had received in the past, and it felt great. This more so than any other record, we all contributed, we did it all ourselves, we're all on every song doing things.[4]
Release
editAdults!!! was released on February 8, 2010. Initially released as an EP,[5] the band has more recently acknowledged the record as a "mini-album", similar to To Leave or Die in Long Island.[6] Upon release there was no set cover art for the album; instead eight different versions of cover art showed up randomly on the Quote Unquote download page, each featuring a color filtered photograph of someone who appears on the album with the word "ADULTS!" across the cover. When the album was released on vinyl by Really Records, a ninth image in the same style was used as the cover. Throughout February 2010, the band went on an East Coast tour, and performed at Harvest of Hope Fest the following month.[7][8] In July and August 2010, the band went on a US tour.[9]
Reception
edit| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Exclaim! | positive[10] |
Exclaim! named Adults!... No. 10 in their Punk Albums of 2010.[11] Exclaim! writer Ben Conoley said "Listening to the album is like attending a really exciting party where everyone is extremely fun but equally self-aware and well-read. Even with a little melancholy, BTMI! reminds us of how much fun life is."
Track listing
edit- "You Still Believe in Me?" – 4:00
- "Planning My Death" – 1:57
- "Slumlord" – 2:36
- "All Ages Shows" – 4:20
- "Big Ending" – 0:29
- "The First Time I Met Sanawon" – 3:26
- "Struggler" – 4:52
Personnel
edit- Jeff Rosenstock – vocals, guitars, saxophone, keyboards
- John DeDomenici – bass
- Tom Malinowski – guitar
- Matt Keegan – trombone, vocals
- Mike Costa – drums
- Laura Stevenson – vocals
- Neil Callaghan – farfisa organ
- Christine Mackie – glockenspiel, vocals
References
edit- ^ Yancey, Bryne (December 29, 2009). "Bomb The Music Industry!: 'Struggler'". Punknews.org. Retrieved October 15, 2022.
- ^ "Bomb the Music Industry!". Bombthemusicindustry.tumblr.com. December 24, 2009. Retrieved November 2, 2011.
- ^ "Bomb The Music Industry! release 'Adults!!!...' EP". Punknews.org. February 9, 2010. Retrieved November 2, 2011.
- ^ Campbell, Mike (February 26, 2015). "Rank Your Records: Jeff Rosenstock Rates Every Bomb the Music Industry! Album". Vice. Retrieved February 14, 2019.
- ^ White, Adam (February 9, 2010). "Bomb The Music Industry! release 'Adults!!!…' EP". Punknews.org. Retrieved October 16, 2022.
- ^ "Really Records". Really Records. Retrieved September 7, 2020.
- ^ Yancey, Bryne (February 2, 2010). "Bomb the Music Industry! (east coast)". Punknews.org. Retrieved October 16, 2022.
- ^ Yancey, Bryne (January 14, 2010). "Harvest of Hope Fest to feature Billy Bragg, forgetters, Leatherface, more". Punknews.org. Aubin Paul. Retrieved May 22, 2018.
- ^ Paul, Aubin (July 6, 2010). "Bomb the Music Industry!". Punknews.org. Retrieved October 20, 2022.
- ^ Exclaim! review
- ^ "Year in Review: Punk". Exclaim!.