A Hangover You Don't Deserve

A Hangover You Don't Deserve is the fifth studio album by American rock band Bowling for Soup.[1] It was released on September 14, 2004, as their third album with Jive Records.[1] The first single, "1985", quickly became a Top 40 staple, peaking at No. 5 on Billboard's Adult Top 40 chart.

A Hangover You Don't Deserve
Studio album by Bowling for Soup
Released	September 14, 2004
Recorded	2004
Studio	Ruby Red Productions Atlanta, Georgia Valve Studios Dallas, Texas
Genre	Pop punk, power pop
Length	58:23
Label	Jive, FFROE, Zomba
Producer	Butch Walker Russ-T Cobb Jaret Reddick Casey Diiorio
Bowling for Soup chronology
Drunk Enough to Dance (2002) A Hangover You Don't Deserve (2004) Bowling for Soup Goes to the Movies (2005)
Singles from A Hangover You Don't Deserve
"1985" Released: July 27, 2004 "Almost" Released: January 4, 2005 "Ohio (Come Back to Texas)" Released: November 17, 2005

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
Entertainment Weekly	C+[3]
Melodic	[4]

Johnny Loftus, writing for AllMusic, praised the catchability of the first three tracks and Jaret Reddick's songwriting on songs like "Ohio (Come Back to Texas)", but was critical of the album containing typical pop punk production ("stuff like piano breaks, compressed vocals, and steppe farm chorus guitars") that made the band sound too close to similar bands like Goldfinger and Lit, saying that "most of the time it's very hard to hear Bowling for Soup around Hangover's radio and video-ready sheen."[2] Entertainment Weekly writer Brian Hiatt felt that tracks like "1985" were not enough to sustain a whole album, saying that, "Like a lower-SATs version of Fountains of Wayne, the Texas quartet tries to write silly/clever lyrics to go atop their high-carb pop melodies. But too much of the humor (rhyming ”Miss Texas” with ”bigger breast-es”?) functions on a Jackass: The Band level."[3]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Almost" (*)	Jaret Reddick, Butch Walker	3:27
2.	"Trucker Hat" (*)	Reddick, Walker	3:01
3.	"1985" (*)	Reddick, Mitch Allan, John Allen	3:13
4.	"Get Happy"	Reddick, Zac Maloy	2:57
5.	"Ohio (Come Back to Texas)"	Reddick, Maloy, Ted Bruner	3:51
6.	"Ridiculous"	Reddick, Casey Diiorio	3:58
7.	"Shut-Up and Smile"	Reddick, Maloy	4:03
8.	"Last Call Casualty" (*)	Reddick, Walker	3:32
9.	"Next Ex-Girlfriend"	Reddick, Jeff Coplan	3:26
10.	"A-Hole"	Reddick, Miles Zuniga	3:57
11.	"My Hometown"	Reddick	3:02
12.	"Smoothie King"	Reddick, Maloy	4:02
13.	"Sad Sad Situation"	Reddick, Zuniga, Tony Scalzo	2:26
14.	"Really Might Be Gone"	Reddick	3:43
15.	"Down for the Count"	Reddick	3:37
16.	"Two-Seater" (**)	Reddick, Maloy	3:55
17.	"Friends O' Mine"	Reddick, Zuniga, Scalzo	2:18
43.	"Ohio" (Reprise)	Reddick, Maloy, Bruner	7:17
44.	"Belgium" (Boy Band Remix)	Reddick	5:15
Total length:			58:23

Each version of the album, excluding the DualDisc version, has a number of tracks that are four to five seconds of complete silence, titled "[Blank]", between the last song and "Ohio (Reprise)". The number of tracks varies upon the version, but "Ohio (Reprise)" and "Belgium (Boy Band Remix)" are tracks 43 and 44 respectively on all versions.

U.K. Edition

No.	Title	Length
18.	"Somebody Get My Mom" (not on first pressing)	3:20
Total length:		61:43

Japanese Edition

No.	Title	Length
18.	"Somebody Get My Mom"	3:20
19.	"Bipolar" (also appears on the Australian "1985" single and U.K. "1985" Single 1)	2:39
Total length:		64:22

B-sides

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Major Denial" (released on the Australian and U.K. "1985" Single 1 and 2)	2:25
2.	"Make It Up to You" (released on the Australian "1985" single and U.K. "1985" 7" Vinyl)	3:53
3.	"Girl All the Bad Guys Want (Kerrang! Radio Session)" (released on U.K. "Almost" single)	3:27
4.	"Undertow" (released on Bowling for Soup Goes to the Movies)	3:31

DualDisc Version

CD side

• Tracks 1-17 of standard edition

DVD side

• Entire Album in 5.1 Surround Sound (including "Ohio (Reprise)" and "Belgium" (Boy Band Remix) as Tracks 18 and 19 respectively)
• Entire Album In Stereo PCM
• "1985" (video)
• "Almost" (video)
• "Ridiculous" (video)
• "Two-Seater" (Acoustic) (video from RollingStone.com Originals)

Personnel

Bowling for Soup

• Jaret Reddick — lead vocals, rhythm guitar
• Erik Chandler — bass guitar, vocals
• Chris Burney — lead guitar, vocals
• Gary Wiseman — drums, percussion

Production

• Co-Produced by Russ-T Cobb and Jaret Reddick except * and **
  • Produced by Butch Walker
• Recorded and Mixed at Ruby Red Productions Atlanta, Georgia
• Engineered and mixed by Russ-T Cobb except **
• Assistant Engineer: Sean Loughlin
• Project Coordinator: Christie Priode
  • • Produced by Jaret Reddick Casey Diiorio

Recorded and Mixed by Casey Diiorio at Valve Studios, Dallas, Texas

• Tracks 1 and 3 Mixed by Tom Lord-Alge at South Beach Studios, Miami, Florida
• Mastered by Chaz Harper at Battery Mastering NYC
• album photography by Jason Janik

Additional Musicians/Backing Vocals

• Butch Walker
• Russ-T Cobb
• Joey Huffman
• FFroe
• Howie
• Sim Klugerman
• Sean Loughlin
• JT Hall
• Shelly Truesdell
• Candice Leigh Andrews
• Sybil Summers as the "ex" in "Down For The Count"

Charts

Album – Billboard (North America)

Year	Chart	Position
2004	Billboard 200	37

Singles – Billboard (North America)

Year	Single	Chart	Position
2004	"1985"	Adult Top 40	5
		The Billboard Hot 100	23
		Top 40 Mainstream	10
		Top 40 Tracks	13

References

1. "A List of the 11 BFS studio albums (for my twitter peeps)". January 5, 2011. Archived from the original on July 15, 2011. Retrieved January 6, 2010.
2. Loftus, Johnny. "A Hangover You Don't Deserve - Bowling for Soup". AllMusic. Retrieved August 5, 2011.
3. Hiatt, Brian (September 24, 2004). "A Hangover You Don't Deserve". Entertainment Weekly. Time Inc. Retrieved April 26, 2012.
4. Roth, Kaj (July 3, 2005). "Bowling for Soup - A Hangover You Don't Deserve". Melodic. Retrieved July 17, 2017.

External links

• A Hangover You Don't Deserve at YouTube (streamed copy where licensed)