The Best in Town

The Best in Town
Studio album by The Blackout
Released 25 May 2009
Recorded Sonic Ranch Studios, Alameda, Texas
Genre Post-hardcore, hard rock[1]
Length 34:18
Label Epitaph
Producer Jason Perry
The Blackout chronology
We Are the Dynamite
(2007)		 The Best in Town
(2009)		 Hope
(2011)
Singles from The Best in Town
  1. "Shut-the-Fuck-Uppercut"
    Released: 30 March 2009
  2. "Children of the Night"
    Released: 18 May 2009
  3. "Save Our Selves (The Warning)"
    Released: 3 August 2009
  4. "I Don't Care (This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things)"
    Released: 16 November 2009
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic [2]
DIY8/10[3]
Kerrang![4]
Rock Sound[5]
Planet Loud [1]

The Best in Town is the second album to by Welsh post-hardcore band The Blackout. The album was released on 25 May 2009 in Europe, and 23 June 2009 in the USA.[6] The track listing for the entire album was released by the band via their Myspace blog.[7]

Background

"ShutTheFuckUppercut" was first played on BBC Radio 1, where it was announced it would be released as a free download in April. This free download was actually offered for less than a week from 26 March but was released as a digital single from 30 March. "Children of the Night" was the album's lead single, and was played for the first time on Radio 1 on 13 April 2009. The music video was released on Wednesday 15 April on MTV's website. The studio recording features vocals from the Year 6 class of Herolgerrig Primary School, Merthyr Tydfil, where the band is from.[8]

The video for "This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things (I Don't Care)" was recorded at the Islington o2 Academy on 5 September 2009. The video features Josh Franceschi of You Me At Six, as well as members of Kids In Glass Houses and Young Guns.[9]

The title for the song "I Love Myself And I Wanna Live" is a play on the title of the Nirvana song "I Hate Myself and Want to Die".[10] The song "Save Our Selves" came about the Blackout had an untitled song for the untitled new album in 2008. They were not happy with the way it sounded, but Producer Jason Perry thought it resembled a song of his own, which he had written with friend and former band mate Dan P Carter, and were going to give to another band that they were both working with. Both song ideas were put together to produce "Save Our Selves (The Warning)", which ended up being the band's most commercial single from the album. The band that was originally going to use the one version of the song have since tried to blacken The Blackouts name, but it was never their song to use in the first place, and had been threatened with legal action to stop their own plagiarism.

Track listing

  1. "Shut-the-Fuck-Uppercut" - 3:14
  2. "Save Our Selves (The Warning)" - 3:35
  3. "Top of the World" - 3:28
  4. "The Fire" - 3:31
  5. "Children of the Night" - 2:57
  6. "Said and Done" - 3:22
  7. "Silent When We Speak" - 4:13
  8. "I Love Myself and I Wanna Live" (parody of "I Hate Myself and Want to Die") - 3:14
  9. "This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things" (featuring Josh Franceschi of You Me at Six) - 3:33
  10. "We're Going to Hell... So Bring the Sunblock" - 3:10

Personnel

The Blackout

Production

References

  1. 1 2 Graham Finney (2009-05-25). "Planet loud.com The Best In Town: Record Review". Planet Loud. Retrieved 2009-06-01.
  2. ↑ Tim Sendra (2009-06-09). "The Best In Town > Overview". allmusic. Retrieved 2010-10-12.
  3. ↑ http://diymag.com/archive/the-blackout-the-best-in-town
  4. ↑ Correction - kerrang.com
  5. ↑ Kearns, Emily (June 2009). "The Blackout – The Best in Town." Rock Sound (123): 91.
  6. ↑ The Blackout Sign to Epitaph Records Worldwide - epitaph.com
  7. ↑ "THE BEST IN TOWN... van THE BLACKOUT op Myspace". Blogs.myspace.com. 2009-02-12. Retrieved 2012-01-16.
  8. ↑ "News - South Wales Valleys - Merthyr - Blackout's deal of a lifetime". WalesOnline. 2009-03-05. Retrieved 2012-01-16.
  9. ↑ RRW (2009-09-09). "EBTM: The Blackout - New Video Shoot". Ebtmactive.blogspot.com. Retrieved 2012-01-16.
  10. ↑ pearl (2004-02-26). "Duo Paparazzi: Interview with the Blackout". Punkrockingchick.blogspot.com. Retrieved 2012-01-16.
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