Brand New was a band that after their 2001 release of "Your Favorite Weapon", were considered a on the rise pop-punk band, with nothing to lose and in MTV "Advanced Warning" behind them, Brand New release a better more progressive pop punk album in "Deja Entendu", the fans responses were up and down, and some people even called them sellouts, this album is 3 years old but the tracks are still great and will definetly stick in your head.
Track Listing:
1. Tautou
2. Sic Transit Gloria...Glory Fades
3. I Will Play My Game Beneath the Spin Light
4. Okay I Believe You, But My Tommy Gun Don't
5. The Quiet Things That No One Ever Knows
6. The Boy Who Blocked His Own Shot
7. Jaws Theme Swimming
8. Me Vs. Maradona Vs. Elvis
9. Guernica
10. Good To Know That If I Ever Need Attention All I Have To Do Is Die
11. Play Crack The Sky
Track by Track Review
1. Tautou
A song that makes no sense to me and not the way Brand New wanted to kick off their 2nd album, the song has limited lyrics, and the use of metaphors is pretty good, but it doesn't have the energy that the other songs have and its not a good opener to this album. 5/10
2. Sic Transit Gloria...Glory Fades
This song starts out with a cool beat that really gets you into, the song, but you're still wondering when the powerful jam session is going to come, and it does, the chrous has powerful energy driven lyrics, and it really turns out great, it is a fast paced song, but the only bad part of this song is if you ever see the live version of this song, Brand New doesn't scream "Die Young And Save Yourself", which in my opinion is the best part of this remarkable song, very good song. 9/10
3. I Will Play My Game Beneath the Spin Light
This song has some of the most remarkable lyrics, I have ever listened to , the acoustic beat to start the song makes you think its going to be a soft song, but it isn't, this song chronicles Brand New's tour struggles and how they just want to be home and live a normal life, not this Brand New life they are starting on tour, the chrous is great, but not as good as its catchy surronding lyrics, and the ending of this song piles all of the nonsense together to make one of my favorite songs from Brand New. 10/10
4. Okay I Believe You, But My Tommy Gun Don't
Starts out a little bit slow but with catchy lyrics, so you don't mind the slowness, it goes two times through with catchy lyrics but again the slow beat, this all piles up to a unbelivable chrous that the first time i heard it, honestly took my breath away, the lyrics and chrous are so awesome and catchy, and the beat is great so i give this song a 9.95/10
5. The Quiet Things...
This is one of my favorite songs in the 6th grade, baciscally because of the chrous, which is great in mostly all the brand new songs, plus it kind of brings back the old Brand New, not saying the rest of the album is going to be like this but this song is very good. 8.75/10
6. The Boy Who Blocked His Own Shot
One of my favorite songs, it stays acoustic throughout, and it brings back the kind of pop punk feel to the song, it slow moving, and the lyrics are catchy and for once creative, i've never seen a punk band that can do slow songs and still have catchy lyrics, but Brand New somehow puts it together in this song, its really a collabroation of all the Brand New songs if you look up the lyrics, its about sadness, Breakups, were getting old but were still kind of young, we can still do this, no we cant, its my fault, no its your fault, thats what this song is saying but its saying it with differnt words and lyrics, plus the title of the song is real cool, but I wish that the chrous was repeated more often, that is the only con to this song. 8/10
7. Jaws Theme Swimming
Starts off with a kind of old school, 70's beat, the lyrics are not understandable, at the begining but it all ties together and pre-chrous which has cool duel lyrics, but this song doesn't pile up to be as good as the other songs because it tends to drag on, and at sometime you think " this has to get old", and after a few time through it does, but its still a good song. 7.75/10
8. Me Vs. Maradona Vs. Elvis
Oh my, we have hit a low, this song if you listen to the lyrics, its about Jessie bringing a drunk girl home and sleeping with her, a kind of stupid song that along with the opener probably shouldn't have made the album, I do like some parts of this song the chrous is alright, but when you have that argument about bands and someone says Brand New has a sex song tell them the song shouldn't have even made the album. 6/10
9. Guernica
This song makes up for the lack of emotion of the last song, the catchy lyrics start out the song, and its one of my favorites on the album, because you can listen to it over and over again and not get tired of it, that why it has to be considered a elite Punk song.
10. Good To Know That If I Ever Need Attention All I Have To Do Is Die
A song that some people say is simillar to track 8 on this album, but i tend to disagree because the beat is way differnt and so is the concept, the chrous is a lot better, and so are the lyrics, not a lot of aggresivness is invovled though so you can make the argument that the songs are alright, the chrous is beautiful and its probably unites the band, it is a very good track. 8/10
11. Play Crack The Sky
A very good final track to the CD, really sums it all up, good lyrics, and good everything, a solid song. 8/10
Pros:
Catchy Lyrics
New Sound
Tracks 3 4 and 5
Only 2 Skippable Tracks
Cons:
New Album?
Some Songs to long
Brand New brings a new sound to the table in this album and if you like Brand New you defintely want to buy this.
