1.Same Girl, New Songs (2001); 2.The All-American Rejects (2003); 3.Move Along (2005); 4.When The World Comes Down (2008)
Same Girl, New Songs
Released: Summer 2001. Length Version 1: 33:22, Version 2: 35:11
1. One More Sad Song 3:09
2. Drive Away 2:59
2. Drive Away 2:59
3. Too Far Gone 4:02
4. Don't Leave Me 3:43
5. Her Name Rhymes with Mindy 2:54
6. Fembot 3:04
7. Pillsbury Doughgirl 3:42
8. She Mannequin 4:07
9. Girl of my Dreams 4:12
10. I'm on the Football Team" (Hidden) 2:28Same Girl, New Songs was a self-released demo CD made by The All-American Rejects in 2001. The EP was written and recorded by Tyson Ritter and Nick Wheeler from Stillwater, OK. Same Girl, New Songs was sent off to Doghouse Records where an intern showed the CD to the label owner. The EP soon earned the band a recording contract. Same Girl, New Songs is a rare CD, being produced by the band themselves. It was only available to the public at shows, and is no longer produced.
Two versions have been found on various sources on the internet, with version one's track 10 being the "I'm On The Football Team" hidden track, and version two's being the song "Your Star". The CD consists of songs written by Ritter and Wheeler, and was a combination of two previous demos.
The songs "One More Sad Song", "Drive Away", "Too Far Gone", "Your Star" and "Don't Leave Me" were re-recorded for their label debut, self-titled release in 2002. The other older six tracks were originally from a different demo in 2000 with the then member Jesse Tabish who provided the lead guitar and some vocals. The only song that features only Tabish's vocals and none of Ritter's is "I'm on the Football Team".
The All-American Rejects
Released: February 4, 2003. Length: 42:54. Label: DreamWorks, Doghouse
1. My Paper Heart 3:482. Your Star 4:20
3. Swing, Swing 3:53
4. Time Stands Still 3:30
5. One More Sad Song 3:03
6. Why Worry 4:16
7. Don't Leave Me 3:28
8. Too Far Gone 4:05
9. Drive Away 3:00
10. Happy Endings 4:24
11. The Last Song 5:00
The All-American Rejects is the self-titled debut album from The All-American Rejects, released on February 4, 2003 in the United States. On March 3 it was then released in the UK.The original LP released solely by Doghouse Records was released October 15, 2002.There was a bonus CD included with it, featuring five songs by other Doghouse Records artists.
Production and marketing
The album was recorded in 2001 by the duo of Tyson Ritter and Nick Wheeler after being signed by independent labelDoghouse Records. The All-American Rejects went up to New York to record the album, and The All-American Rejects was released October 15, 2002. Soon after the band was signed to DreamWorks Records, which planned to re-issue the LP on a broader scale in February. This time the album gained commercial success. The All-American Rejects was released on compact disc, and on 12" vinyl pressed in most commonly in orange, as well as in red and blue. Only a limited number of vinyl copies went into print. The All-American Rejects was also released on cassette tape in Indonesia. The song "Drive Away" featured in this album was re-released on their next album under the name "P.S. I Love You".
Singles
The first single released was "Swing, Swing" in fall 2002, and later re-issued in January. "The Last Song" was released April 21, 2003, charting many weeks on Billboard's Modern Rock chart, before falling off the chart. After this, "Swing, Swing" was still charting, and ended its run in August. Next "Time Stands Still" was chosen as a headlining single, and released in August, but gained no success. "My Paper Heart" was released in late 2003 apparently as apromotional single. After this, no more singles were released.
Music videos
The first music video released was for "Swing, Swing", released January 7, 2003. The video got the All-American Rejects nominated for "Best New Artist" at the "MTV Video Music Awards". For the next single, "The Last Song" music video was released May 2003, and was nominated for "Best Pop Video" at the 2004 MVPA awards. The "Time Stands Still" music video was released in the fall, directed by Meiert Avis. A video for "My Paper Heart" was put together from footage filmed for the band's first DVD, Live from Oklahoma...
The Too Bad for Hell DVD!. It combines footage of the "My Paper Heart" concert performance as well as shots of the band from filming the "Lost in Stillwater" documentary, also on the DVD. The video was released on November 25, 2003.
The Too Bad for Hell DVD!. It combines footage of the "My Paper Heart" concert performance as well as shots of the band from filming the "Lost in Stillwater" documentary, also on the DVD. The video was released on November 25, 2003.
Move Along
Released: July 12, 2005. Length: 42:09. Label: Doghouse Records, Interscope
2. Stab My Back 3:10
3. Move Along 4:00
4. It Ends Tonight 4:04
5. Change Your Mind 3:40
6. Night Drive 3:23
7. 11:11 PM 3:04
8. Dance Inside 4:00
9. Top of the World 3:23
10. Straightjacket 3:37
11. I'm Waiting 3:34
12. Can't Take It 2:52 |
Move Along is the second studio album by American rock band The All-American Rejects, released on July 12, 2005. The album was certified 2x Platinum in the U.S. (2,000,000 units) on June 6, 2008 by the RIAA, and was also certified Platinum in Canada (100,000 units) by the CRIA.
Production and marketing
With Move Along, The All-American Rejects first wrote for the new album in the fall of 2003. The song "Dance Inside" was put together and then was performed at concerts in October. Other than this, the band didn't start working on their second album until touring wrapped up.
Tyson Ritter and Nick Wheeler spent 10 months writing at their homes in Destin, Florida. The first two tracks on the album, “Dirty Little Secret” and “Stab My Back”, were finished right before they went to Atlanta in October 2004 to work with the other band members for full arrangements. By December the band had begun pre-production in Burbank, California. The songs on Move Along were recorded in seven weeks. The album was then mixed in March 2005.
A day before U.S. version was released on July 12, 2005, the UK version of Move Along. It features two bonus tracks not available on the U.S. version. Also on the iTunes Store a deluxe edition of the album was released featuring five live tracks recorded at the Wiltern Theater at Los Angeles, California.
Two B-sides of Move Along, "Kiss Yourself Goodbye" and "Eyelash Wishes", were not made for the final cut of the album. The All-American Rejects, though, took the initiative to record these tracks and co-produced making them along with Mike Plotnikoff and Paul Decarli, the former recording the tracks on Move Along, and the latter was the ProTools editor for the album. Both tracks were featured on the "Move Along" CD single, and "Eyelash Wishes" became a bonus track on the UK version of Move Along.
As well as being released on compact disc, Move Along was released on 12" vinyl by Doghouse Records, November 7, 2006.Only a limited 1000 copies were produced. The first 500 copies printed included a black 7" single of "Eyelash Wishes". A cassette tape of Move Along was also released in Indonesia, with an acoustic version of "Night Drive" as a bonus track.
The first single from the album, "Dirty Little Secret", was first released to Modern Rock radios on June 6, 2005. It was later released coinciding with Move Along on July 12 to contemporary hit radio. The second single, "Move Along", was released on February 28, 2006, but didn't meet its peak on the charts until summer, with "Dirty Little Secret" still in the spotlight. In July, a song from Move Along called "Top of the World" was released as a promotional single to modern rock stations in the United States. "It Ends Tonight" was released on September 19, 2006, after "Move Along" was declining in the charts, and became Move Along's third top-ten hit.
Music videosFor all four of the singles released for Move Along, a music video was made for each one, starting with "Dirty Little Secret" released July 11, 2005. The video received a nomination for "Best International Video - Group" from the Canadian music video channel MuchMusic Video Awards. The video for "Move Along" was released on January 18, 2006, which it was nominated for four awards. At the MTV Video Music Awards, it was nominated for "Best Editing" and won "Best Group Video", and at the Music Video Production Association Awards it was nominated for "Best Editing" again, and won "Best Pop Video". The video for "Move Along" was also nominated for "Director of the Year", the director being Marc Webb. A video for the promotional single "Top of the World" was mashed together from tour and concert footage. This video was followed by the video for "It Ends Tonight" on August 25. The song was used in the Bionicle advertisment for the ToaInika.
When The World Comes Down
Released December 16, 2008, Length 45:35
1.I Wanna 3:28
The second track on the album, "Fallin' Apart", was recorded during the band's escape into the mountains of Georgia. In Rabun County, "Fallin' Apart" was experimented with and played around with before achieving the final product, a process described by singer/bassist Tyson Ritter as "Old School". Also recorded in Rabun County, was the song "Mona Lisa". The song's title originates from Ritter's view of the song, as the bands perfect, simple work of art. Online music stores have since tagged "(When the World Comes Down)" onto the title, since this phrase is taken from the song itself. "Mona Lisa" was tracked live in studio, which was a first for The All-American Rejects.
Most of all other material on the album was recorded at Barefoot Studios, owned by the album's producer, Eric Valentine. Here songs were finished such as the song "Believe". After one take of the drum track, two other drum parts were completed by the end of the day. To drummer Chris Gaylor's dismay, the first version was originally chosen. Another song, "Damn Girl", was created around a chorus that Ritter had in mind from the start. The song begins with a dual intro with rhythm guitarist Mike Kennerty using an electric guitar, and Tyson Ritter on a synthesizer. "The Wind Blows" was a song originally written for pop singer Gwen Stefani. It was turned down, but later transformed into a vital link for the climax of When the World Comes Down. After a 30-second track of silence, the hidden track "Sunshine", written in San Francisco, plays abruptly. The song doesn't include drums, a position taken by percussion instruments such as shakers, and features an orchestration.
Released December 16, 2008, Length 45:35
2.Fallin' Apart 3:26
3. Damn Girl 3:51
4. GivesYou Hell 3:33
5. Mona Lisa (When the World Comes Down) 3:14
6. Breakin 3:58
7. Another Heart Call 4:09
8. Real World 4:02
9. Back to Me 4:28
10. Believe 3:28
11. The Wind Blows 4:22
12. Untitled (Silent Hidden Track) 0:30
13. Sunshine (Hidden Track) 3:01When the World Comes Down is the third studio album by American rock band The All-American Rejects, released on December 16, 2008. It was produced by Eric Valentine who has recorded with the likes of Maroon 5. When the World Comes Down was the band's first album that was recorded mostly using tape to record the songs. The album was named one of the Alternative Press most anticipated albums of the year.
Composition and recording
The All-American Rejects first began writing material for what would become When the World Comes Down at the end of December 2006, when they wrapped up their Tournado tour. In spite of this, it took the band nearly a year to get into the studio, with shows and tours frequently being offered. Twelve songs were completed for the album, a process that took over two years. The first song written for the record was the album opener, "I Wanna". The song took over six months to record, in studio as well as a tour bus. "I Wanna" was written in Florida, followed by the rock ballad titled "Back To Me". Also written on a tour bus was the song "Breakin'", which came together from many different ideas circulating through the quartet. Two important tracks on When the World Comes Down, "Gives You Hell" and "Another Heart Calls", were written during a road trip to Vancouver.
The second track on the album, "Fallin' Apart", was recorded during the band's escape into the mountains of Georgia. In Rabun County, "Fallin' Apart" was experimented with and played around with before achieving the final product, a process described by singer/bassist Tyson Ritter as "Old School". Also recorded in Rabun County, was the song "Mona Lisa". The song's title originates from Ritter's view of the song, as the bands perfect, simple work of art. Online music stores have since tagged "(When the World Comes Down)" onto the title, since this phrase is taken from the song itself. "Mona Lisa" was tracked live in studio, which was a first for The All-American Rejects.
Many components of When the World Comes Down was recorded at the famed Skywalker Ranch, in San Rafael, California. There at the large John Williams scoring room, the gang vocals for "Gives You Hell" were recorded, as well as three separate drum tracks for songs such as "Real World".
The 16-piece orchestra featured on When the World Comes Down was recorded at Warner Brothers Studios, Burbank, California, on the eastwood scoring stage. Here, orchestration for the tracks "Another Heart Calls", "Sunshine", and "Real World" was recorded. The orchestra is the most evident in "Sunshine", being a main component of the song.
Most of all other material on the album was recorded at Barefoot Studios, owned by the album's producer, Eric Valentine. Here songs were finished such as the song "Believe". After one take of the drum track, two other drum parts were completed by the end of the day. To drummer Chris Gaylor's dismay, the first version was originally chosen. Another song, "Damn Girl", was created around a chorus that Ritter had in mind from the start. The song begins with a dual intro with rhythm guitarist Mike Kennerty using an electric guitar, and Tyson Ritter on a synthesizer. "The Wind Blows" was a song originally written for pop singer Gwen Stefani. It was turned down, but later transformed into a vital link for the climax of When the World Comes Down. After a 30-second track of silence, the hidden track "Sunshine", written in San Francisco, plays abruptly. The song doesn't include drums, a position taken by percussion instruments such as shakers, and features an orchestration.
An acknowledgment to the album regarding to the recording process is the overall sound quality of the album. Many fans and audiophiles alike have noticed that most of the songs on the album are recorded and mixed well, the album is agreeably not engaged in Loudness War, a modern recording technique which maximizes the overall loudness of the track on the expense of less punch, clarity and dynamics. Using music recording and editing software such as the freely available Audacity, one can see that the waveform of the song "Gives You Hell" and many other tracks on the album shows soft and loud parts with many "peaks and dips" which suggests punch and clarity of the instruments, which is rare among modern rock recordings. The track "Another Heart Calls" starts off very soft and gradually gets louder towards the end of the track, proving that almost no or little "loudness maximizing" has been used.
Production and Marketing
As a way to maintain fans' interest, the The All-American Rejects highlighted their record making process through live internet broadcasts, providing a direct look into the record-making process. To further promote the band, the Rejects also shot a Got Milk? ad. They also released two song previews, of the demos for "Mona Lisa" and "Sierra's Song". Many fans believed that the song "Sunshine" on When the World Comes Down was "Sierra's Song" with a revised title, but this in not true. The actual "Sierra's Song" was completed, but wasn't used for When the World Comes Down. It eventually found its way onto the soundtrack for the television show 90210.
The All-American Rejects also held an interview with Entertainment Weekly to further promote the record, stating that "It's like nothing you've ever heard". The band talked about how the songs were put together and how it is different from Move Along. The album version of the song "Real World" was released as downloadable content for Rock Band on December 2. On December 11 the lyrics to all of the songs on When the World Comes Down were posted on the band's official website, 30-second clips of the songs were also released on their official MySpace page.The entire album was released on their MySpace the following day.
From the profits of When the World Comes Down, The All-American Rejects donated 10% of total earnings to Feed the Children. Also to promote the album, the band held karaoke competitions, drawing competitions, and song competitions. Later on they released a site called AAR Street Team where fans can enter contests, blog, and chat.
When the World Comes Down was released in Australia on January 10, 2009. Then in the UK the album was released on February 9, 2009, a week after "Gives You Hell" was released there. Although it was only available in a single edition, the album contained demo tracks that featured on Deluxe U.S. Version, as well as an exclusive UK only remix of "The Wind Blows", and a demo track of a song titled "Here I Sit".
Singles
The single "Gives You Hell" was released on September 30, 2008 as a digital download. "Gives You Hell" was serviced to mainstream radio on October 7, 2008. "Mona Lisa (When the World Comes Down)" was released as a digital single on November 18, 2008, before the release of When the World Comes Down to promote the album. Later on April 21, 2009, "The Wind Blows" was released to mainstream radio as the All-American Rejects' second single from World. "I Wanna" was released throughout the UK and Australia on June 8, 2009. The song "Real World" was released as a promotional single about a month later on July 8 in the United States. Real World" gained recognition on the playlist of Modern Rock radio station KTCL FM in Denver, Colorado, being one of the top spinned songs. It also was briefly included in the playlists of Modern Rock stations KYSR in Los Angeles and KCNL in San Jose, California. Later in July, "I Wanna" was released as the third U.S. headlining single from When the World Comes Down on July 27, 2009.
Music videos
On November 3, 2008 the band released their first music video for the record, "Gives You Hell", on Yahoo! Music. The band also released a second video for "Mona Lisa", which was released on the deluxe iTunes version of the album. The video for the Rejects next single "The Wind Blows" was released on April 27, 2009 directed by Rich Lee. Rich Lee also directed the "I Wanna" music video, which was released throughout the UK in support of the song. The video was also picked up by the U.S. iTunes. Also, for a U.S. release, another "I Wanna" music video has been released, directed by Paul Hunter. No form of a music video produced for it the promo single "Real World".
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