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Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic(64/100) [3]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic [1]
Alternative Press [4]
Billboard(positive) [5]
Blender [6]
Drowned in Sound(8/10) [3]
Entertainment WeeklyB [7]
The Guardian [8]
The Metal Forge [11]
NME(4/10) [3]
Q [3]
Robert Christgau(dud) [9]
Rolling Stone [10]

In Love and Death is the second studio album by American alternative rock band The Used. It was released on September 28, 2004 and was later certified gold in the United States, indicating over 500,000 copies shipped.[12] It is their most commercially successful album to date.[3] The title and music reference a number of tragic events that surrounded vocalist Bert McCracken during the album's production, notably the death of his pregnant girlfriend. In Love and Death is the final studio album to feature drummer Branden Steineckert.

Release and promotion

The album was first released on September 28, 2004. The album was re-released on May 3, 2005 with the addition of a bonus track, a cover of Queen and David Bowie's "Under Pressure", in which they collaborated with My Chemical Romance. The track "Sound Effects and Overdramatics" was featured on the Saw II soundtrack, and "All That I've Got" was used in the Saints Row 2 soundtrack. In August 2009, an instrumental version of the album was released on digital music stores.

Reception

The album has been generally well received by critics. Billboard said that it "continues to straddle the line between street credibility and mainstream success". The Guardian gave it 3 out of 5 stars, saying "Songs of self-abuse and suicide - and those are the sunnier moments - are wrapped in wailing riffs, big choruses and fiddly guitar solos." The album has been unanimously acclaimed by the fanbase. The album, along with The Used, are considered to be the band's strongest work. By February 2006, the album had sold over 642,000 copies.[13]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Quinn Allman, Bert McCracken, Jeph Howard and Branden Steineckert, except where noted

No.TitleLength
1."Take It Away"3:38
2."I Caught Fire"3:25
3."Let It Bleed"3:11
4."All That I've Got"3:59
5."Cut Up Angels"3:47
6."Listening"2:46
7."Yesterday's Feelings"2:48
8."Light with a Sharpened Edge"3:30
9."Sound Effects and Overdramatics"3:29
10."Hard to Say"3:30
11."Lunacy Fringe"3:41
12."I'm a Fake"4:06
Total length:41:44
Japanese bonus track
No.TitleLength
13."The Back of Your Mouth"3:20
Total length:45:06
Re-Release bonus track
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
13."Under Pressure" (with My Chemical Romance; "I'm a Fake" is 8:00 on this release, containing about 4 minutes of silence leading into this track)David Bowie, John Deacon, Brian May, Freddie Mercury, Roger Taylor3:32
Total length:49:08

Personnel

Charts and certifications

Release history

References

  1. ^ a b c AllMusic review
  2. ^ Spanos, Brittany (March 1, 2016). "40 Greatest Emo Albums of All Time". Rolling Stone. Retrieved March 1, 2016.
  3. ^ a b c d e Critic reviews at Metacritic
  4. ^ Alternative Press review
  5. ^ Archived 2004-10-10 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ Blender review Archived 2005-03-09 at the Wayback Machine
  7. ^ Richardson, Sean (2004-10-01). "In Love and Death Review". Entertainment Weekly (786): 74. Retrieved 2013-09-15.
  8. ^ The Guardian review
  9. ^ Robert Christgau Consumer Guide
  10. ^ Archived 2007-10-02 at the Wayback Machine
  11. ^ The Metal Forge review
  12. ^ RIAA Gold and Platinum Data
  13. ^ Kohli, Rohan (February 15, 2006). "Soundscan Results: Week Ending 2/12/06". absolutepunk.net. Retrieved February 12, 2016.
  14. ^ "australian-charts – The Used – In Love and Death". australian-charts. Retrieved 2011-07-26.
  15. ^ "The Used - Chart History - Canadian Albums". Billboard. Retrieved 2011-07-26.
  16. ^ "Chart Log UK (1994–2008) U2 – Utopia". Zobbel. Retrieved 2011-07-26.
  17. ^ "The Used - Charts History - Billboard 200". Billboard. Retrieved 2011-07-26.
  18. ^ "ARIA Charts - Accreditations - 2005 Albums". ARIA. Retrieved 26 July 2011.
  19. ^ "CRIA Database Search for The Used". CAN. Retrieved 26 July 2011.
  20. ^ "Certified Awards Search". BPI. Retrieved 26 July 2011.
  21. ^ "RIAA Gold and Platinum Search". RIAA. Retrieved 26 July 2011.
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