Act Your Age (Home Grown album)
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Released | June 2, 1998 | |||
Genre | Ska punk Pop punk Skate punk | |||
Length | 69:02 | |||
Label | Outpost Recordings | |||
Producer | Clif Norrell | |||
Home Grown chronology | ||||
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Singles from Act Your Age | ||||
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Source | Rating |
AbsolutePunk | Favorable[1] |
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Los Angeles Times | ** [3] |
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Act Your Age is the second album by the rock band Home Grown, released in 1998 by Outpost Recordings. It was the band's only album for a major label. It expanded their popularity and found them moving into a pop punk and pop rock direction musically. The album's most popular tracks were a new version of "Surfer Girl," a song which had originally appeared on their debut album That's Business and "Suffer" which also appeared on Geffen sampler Everything is Beautiful.[5] Act Your Age would be the band's final recording with their original lineup, as guitarist Ian Cone left the band shortly after its release.
The album contains a hidden track called "Too Many Stops" on track 15 after "Reflections." The song plays at 22:59 into the track and is followed by a 1-minute clip of the band members laughing uncontrollably.
Act Your Age was Home Grown's first album to chart; reaching #24 on Billboard's Heatseekers in 1998.[6]
Track listing
[edit]- "Nowhere Slow" (Lohrbach)
- "All That You Have" (Lohrbach)
- "She's Anti" (Tran)
- "Surfer Girl" (Lohrbach)
- "Last Nite Regrets" (Tran)
- "Suffer" (Lohrbach)
- "Your Past" (Tran)
- "Grow Up" (Lohrbach)
- "Piss Off" (Tran)
- "Let Go" (Lohrbach)
- "Bad News Blair" (Tran)
- "Kids" (Lohrbach)
- "Wow, She Dumb" (Tran)
- "Envy Me" (Tran)
- "Reflections" (Lohrbach) / "Too Many Stops"
Personnel
[edit]- John "John E. Trash" Tran – vocals, guitar, moog, keyboard
- Ian Cone – guitar, vocals
- Adam Lohrbach – vocals, bass, moog, keyboard
- Bob Herco – drums
Album information
[edit]- Recorded at Ocean Way Studios, Sound City Studios, and Louie's Clubhouse
- Mixed at Louie's Clubhouse
- Produced, engineered, and mixed by Clif Norrell
- Assistant engineers: John Sorensen, Greg Fidelman, Victor Janacua
- Mastered by Howie Weinberg at Masterdisk in New York
- Tracks 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 & 15 written by Adam Lohrbach
- Tracks 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13 & 14 written by John Tran
- Art direction by Pawn Shop Press
- Cover photo by Stephen Stickler
- Other photography by Alison Dyer
References
[edit]- ^ Tate, Jason. "AbsolutePunk - Home Grown / Act Your Age". AbsolutePunk.net. Archived from the original on June 21, 2003. Retrieved July 15, 2016.
- ^ AllMusic review
- ^ Los Angeles Times review
- ^ Sorley, Jeff (November 14, 2018). "Home Grown - Act Your Age". Punknews.org. Retrieved March 24, 2021.
- ^ "Various - Everything Is Beautiful". Discogs. Retrieved 2015-11-18.
- ^ "Act Your Age - Home Grown | Awards | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 2015-11-18.