Review Summary: This makes you want to watch The Mighty Ducks. Go Bruins!
Imagine the best and most well-known alternative/pop songs of the 90's covered by five bearded pop-punk men from the Boston area. This is what exactly you get from Four Year Strong's cover album "Explains it All". The title is a reference to the Nickelodeon sitcom "Clarissa Explains It All" and retains its youthful exuberance throughout. Beginning off with an a capella intro to Everclear's "So Much For The Afterglow" the band has two vocalists that shout with so much fun in their renditions. After a rollicking Everclear cover, the band launches directly into "Story of A Girl" by Nine Days and "Ironic" by Alanis Morissette from my hometown (Ottawa) The band hires Keith Buckley of Every Time I Die for a brief inhaled scream for Smashing Pumpkins' "Bullet with Butterfly Wings". It is obvious that Four Year Strong praise the decade as the one with the most rollicking music of its era. The essays that each member writes in the liner notes prove this as fact. It is within Sugar Ray's "Fly" with Travie McCoy of the Gym Class Heroes that an urban reggae flavor is uniquely added to their repertoire. "Roll to Me" by Del Amitri and "She's So High" by Tal Bachman are interesting renditions by the positive hardcore band. Check this album out to relive the 90's.
