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Your Favorite Weapon by Brand New

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Tracklist

    Track     Duration Listeners
1 The Shower Scene 2:25 128,584
2 Jude Law and a Semester Abroad 3:39 170,353
3 Sudden Death in Carolina 3:01 130,515
4 Mix Tape 3:59 149,783
4 Mixtape 3:56 7,108
5 Failure by Design 3:16 150,971
6 Last Chance to Lose Your Keys 3:31 124,415
7 Logan To Government Center 3:05 112,200
8 The No Seatbelt Song 4:28 122,640
9 Seventy Times 7 3:33 163,570
10 Secondary 3:08 108,704
11 Magazines 2:53 122,353
12 Soco Amaretto Lime 4:47 154,896
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About this album

Razor & Tie (2001) Released: 9 Oct 2001 13 tracks (45:41)
Your Favorite Weapon (2001) is the debut full-length album by Long Island-based band Brand New.
The album consists largely of power chord-heavy pop-punk songs, detailing the highs and lows of teenage relationships and experiences. As of 2009, the band has begun to perform some tracks from this release more frequently, such as “The Shower Scene”; “Jude Law and a Semester Abroad”; “Mixtape”; “The No Seatbelt Song”; “Seventy Times 7” and “Soco Amaretto Lime”.

The song title “Seventy Times 7” in Your Favorite Weapon comes from a verse in the Holy Bible - Matthew 18:22 - where Jesus tells Peter he must forgive his brother “seventy times seven times” - “Then Peter came and said to him, “Lord, if another member of the church sins against me, how oft should I forgive? As many as seven times?” Jesus said to him, “Not seven times, but, I tell you, seventy times seven times.”. The song is about a disagreement between Jesse Lacey and childhood friend John Nolan, then-guitarist in Taking Back Sunday. Taking Back Sunday later released “There’s No ‘I’ in Team,” which is their side of the story. Lacey and Nolan are now on good terms again and are well past the issue.
A line in “The Shower Scene” (which itself is a reference to Alfred Hitchcock’s film Psycho) which reads “It’s time for you to choose / The bullet or the chapstick” is an allusion to a speech by Malcolm X entitled “The Ballot or the Bullet”.
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  • gregorymichael

    I think a lot of the people hating on this album are too young to remember what it was like when this album came out (or you just weren't unsociable and into music more than making friends when you were 11-13), it's generally accepted as Brand New's best release because of what it meant to the angsty pre-teen/teen fans it had on release.

    16 days ago

  • lastinglove

    So, so , so good!!

    February 2012

  • mk741

    It's a pretty embarrassing listen. It oozes high school and suffers for it.

    January 2012

  • kissesneverdie

    I love it, but of course it isn't their best. It's the perfect soundtrack for a movie about high school problems.

    January 2012

  • astroxzombiess

    still didnt get my fucking vinyl and i pre-ordered it a while ago ;_; upset. @vandyJB- what are you talking about?! it meshes perfectly! -.-

    December 2011

  • vandyJB

    this album would have been FLAWLESS without no seatbelt song. it's a good song, but it doesn't fit into the rest of the album

    November 2011

  • fanchus

    You can't say this is Brand New's best album, but man, it's soo amazing!!

    November 2011

  • eric_montana

    pop-punk perfected right here

    November 2011

  • adevivo

    10/10

    October 2011

  • maramore19

    i love this

    September 2011

  • dontsagemebro

    criminally hated and soaked in master craftsmanship

    September 2011

  • cachuaaa

    Literally, my life summed up in one album.

    July 2011

  • Babydaisy19

    every other brand new album takes itself too seriously, this one is actually fun to listen too, the others are painful and I'd rather listen to SDRE or something like that

    June 2011

  • Karmageddonx

    This album is definitely underrated. I dunno if it can hold a candle to Devil and God and Deja Entendu, but I prefer it about tenfold over Daisy.

    June 2011

  • BigFitz182

    clearly, this is the most epic album of brand new's 4 epic albums

    April 2011

  • Hudson_Bow

    So fucking high school! But c'mon it's not as bad as I expected, it's actually pretty good! I got to know BN with TD&G, DE and Daisy (in this particular order) and people always told me their first album really sucked in comparison to their more recent stuff.... but I kinda like it!

    March 2011

  • toddles822

    For one, I'm happy they changed their style after this record, as this is my least favorite Brand New album, but this is what all pop punk albums should strive to be. For one, it doesn't have that whiny, high-pitched vocal style. The musicianship is raw yet tight. This isn't your cookie cutter album. This is solid stuff.

    February 2011

  • hydrasense

    it's an amazing record, no matter how much you stomp your feet. mixtape, jude law, seventy times, those were the days. seriously. how can you NOT like this record? no seatbelt song. really now.

    January 2011

  • Ganon391

    >people actually liking your favorite weapon why

    December 2010

  • DepressedManic

    If this is your fav Brand New album, I feel bad for you [5]

    December 2010
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