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A Hangover You Don't Deserve
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
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;

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.

Critical receptionEdit

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 listingEdit

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
18.	"Ohio" (Reprise)	Reddick, Maloy, Bruner	7:17
19.	"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.

UK 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

DualDisc versionEdit

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)

B-sidesEdit

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

PersonnelEdit

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"

ChartsEdit

Weekly chartsEdit

Chart (2004)	Peak position
Scottish Albums (OCC)^[5]	65
UK Albums (OCC)^[6]	64
US Billboard 200^[7]	37

Year-end chartsEdit

Chart (2005)	Position
US Billboard 200^[8]	185

SinglesEdit

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

CertificationsEdit


Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI)^[9]	Silver	60,000
United States (RIAA)^[10]	Gold	500,000^{^}
^{^} Shipments figures based on certification alone. Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

ReferencesEdit

^ ^a ^b "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.
^ ^a ^b Loftus, Johnny. "A Hangover You Don't Deserve - Bowling for Soup". AllMusic. Retrieved August 5, 2011.
^ ^a ^b Hiatt, Brian (September 24, 2004). "A Hangover You Don't Deserve". Entertainment Weekly. Time Inc. Retrieved April 26, 2012.
^ Roth, Kaj (July 3, 2005). "Bowling for Soup - A Hangover You Don't Deserve". Melodic. Retrieved July 17, 2017.
^ "Official Scottish Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved December 27, 2020.
^ "Official Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved December 27, 2020.
^ "Bowling for Soup Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved December 27, 2020.
^ "Top Billboard 200 Albums – Year-End 2005". Billboard. Retrieved December 27, 2020.
^ "British album certifications – Bowling for Soup – A Hangover You Don't Deserve". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved December 27, 2020.
^ "American album certifications – Bowling for Soup – A Hangover You Don't Deserve". Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved December 27, 2020.