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In Love and Death is the second studio album by American alternative rock band The Used. It was released on September 28, 2004 and has since been certified gold.[4] It is their most well-received and successful album to date.[5] This was the first album for which Alex Pardee did the artwork, and he has done all artwork for The Used since, excluding 2009's Artwork. The title and music reference a number of tragic events that surrounded vocalist Bert McCracken during the album's production, notably the death of his pregnant girlfriend.

Re-Release

The album was re-released on May 3, 2005 with the addition of a bonus track, a cover of Queen and David Bowie's "Under Pressure", in which they collaborated with My Chemical Romance. An article in Kerrang! magazine said that the bonus track was added to later pressings of the album without the band's permission.[citation needed]

Track listing

All tracks are written by The Used, except where noted

No.TitleLength
1."Take It Away"3:37
2."I Caught Fire"3:24
3."Let It Bleed"3:10
4."All That I've Got"3:58
5."Cut Up Angels"3:47
6."Listening"2:46
7."Yesterday's Feelings"2:48
8."Light With a Sharpened Edge"3:30
9."Sound Effects and Overdramatics"3:28
10."Hard to Say"3:29
11."Lunacy Fringe"3:40
12."I'm a Fake"4:06
Re-Release bonus track
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
13."Under Pressure" (performed with My Chemical Romance; "I'm a Fake" is 8:00 on this release, containing about 4 minutes of silence leading into this track)Queen and David Bowie3:31
B-sides
No.TitleLength
1."Back of Your Mouth" (Japan and UK bonus track)3:19
2."Into My Web" (Previously unreleased B-side, available on Shallow Believer)3:37

Charts

Album

Year Chart Position Certification
2004 Billboard 200 5 Gold
2004 Top Canadian Albums 4

Release history

Credits

The Used
  • Bert McCracken – Lead vocals, piano, keyboards, trumpet on "Back of Your Mouth", string arrangements
  • Jeph Howard – Bass, fusion, backing vocals
  • Quinn Allman – Guitars, acoustic guitar on "Lunacy Fringe", toys, backing vocals
  • Branden Steineckert — Drums, percussion, programming, backing vocals
Additional musicians
  • Sean Ingram - Vocals on "Sound Effects and Overdramatics"
  • Danny Lohner - Programming on "Take It Away"
  • Josh Eustis - Programming on "Take It Away"
Production
  • Produced, engineered, mixed and string arrangements by John Feldmann
  • Assistant engineers: Mark Blewett and Alan Hessler
  • Digital editing: Anthony Catalano
  • Recorded and mixed at Foxy Studios, Los Angeles, CA
  • 1 Produced by Howard Benson
  • 1 Mixed by John Feldmann
  • 1 Additional engineering by Mark Blewett
  • Mastered by Joe Gastwirt at Ocean View Digital Mastering
  • Management: John Reese and Paul Gomez for Freeze Artist Management
  • A&R: Craig Aaronson
  • A&R assistant: Ken Blaustein
  • Legal: Eric Greenspan for Myman, Fineman, Abell, Greenspan and Light
  • Booking: Daryl Eatan for CAA
  • Business management: Larry Einbund for Provident Financial Management
  • Press: Jim Baltutis
  • Art: Alex Pardee
  • CD design by Alex Pardee/eyesuckink.com
  • All photos by Seth Smoot
  • Drum techs: Daniel Jansen and Jordan Brown
  • Bass and guitar techs: Mark Blewett, Alan Hessler and Brian Patchett

Backmasking

The beginning of "Cut Up Angels" contains backmasking which, when reversed sounds like "Warm gun mama, happiness is a warm gun", supposedly a reference to the song by The Beatles. The same backmasking appears in the song "Dark Days".

References

  1. ^ /used/in_love_and_death
  2. ^ [1]
  3. ^ [2]
  4. ^ RIAA Gold and Platinum Data
  5. ^ [3]
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