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I Set My Friends on Fire

I Set My Friends On Fire is an American punk rock duo composed of Matt Mihanna (vocals) and Nabil Moo (vocals, programming). The duo first made themselves known on MySpace, where their rendition of Soulja Boy's "Crank Dat" (entitled "Crank Dat Calvary Boy") received more than one million plays.[1][2] Nonetheless, the duo's MySpace page was removed three times because MySpace police had assumed that the duo were using software to increase the number of plays.[1]

They then signed to Epitaph Records,[3] who released their debut album You Can't Spell Slaughter Without Laughter on October 7.[1] The album received a half-star rating out of five from Slant reviewer Nate Adams, who said "[It's] high in the running for worst album of the year…The music aims for brutality and melody, but misses the mark entirely on both counts."[4] Alternative Press reviewer Phil Freeman also gave the album one-half star out of five, remarking that the album "has exactly zero memorable moments".[5] However, these reviews have been the subject of criticism themselves, at the hands of the band's fans. The majority of this criticsm accuses the reviewers of missing the toungue-in-cheek humor of the album, and mistaking sections that border on parody as simply poor musicianship. 

Matthew Hadley of the Brock Press, however, gave the album a more favorable review, calling it "a genuine release from a genre-bending duo trying to create something new and fresh in an increasingly tiring genre."[6]

You Can't Spell Slaughter Without Laughter reached #29 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart.[7]

You Can't Spell Slaughter Without Laughter (2008)

Untitled

All songs written by I Set My Friends on Fire except "Crank That", written by DeAndre Way.

Track listing

  1. "Sh!t It Talks…I'm Out of Here" – 1:03
  2. Brief Interviews With Hideous Men" – 1:37
  3. Beauty Is In The Eyes of the Beerholder" – 2:26
  4. Things That Rhyme with Orange" – 3:24
  5. "ASL" – 2:42
  6. "Interlude" – 1:51
  7. Ravenous, Ravenous Rhinos" – 2:42
  8. HXC 2-Step" – 3:18
  9. WTFWJD" – 3:08
  10. "Crank That Cavalry Boy" – 3:02
  11. "But the NUNS Are Watching…" – 3:26
  12. "Reese's Pieces, I Don't Know Who John Cleese Is?" – 6:26

References

  1. ^ a b c Castillo, Arielle (2008-09-25). "Kendall Band I Set My Friends on Fire Makes It Big the MySpace Way". Miami New Times. Retrieved 2008-10-16.
  2. ^ "I Set My Friends on Fire". ilikemusic. 2008-04-29. Retrieved 2008-10-16.
  3. ^ "Set My Friends on Fire sign to Epitaph Records". Skope. 2008-04-29. Retrieved 2008-10-16.
  4. ^ Adams, Nate (2008-09-29). "I Set My Friends on Fire - You Can't Spell Slaughter Without Laughter". Retrieved 2008-10-16.
  5. ^ Phil Freeman, Review of You Can't Spell Slaughter Without Laughter. Alternative Press, November 2008, p. 158.
  6. ^ Hadley, Matthew (2008-10-07). "The Review Revue". The Brock Press. Retrieved 2008-10-16.
  7. ^ Top Heatseekers, Week of 10/25/08, Billboard.com
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