All the Good Shit: 14 Solid Gold Hits, 2001-2008 [CD & DVD]

Sum 41 | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 17, 2009)
• Original Release Date: 2009
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Island Records
• ASIN: B001T46TPQ
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #38,624 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Still Waiting

2. The Hell Song

3. Fat Lip

4. We're All To Blame

5. Walking Disaster

6. In Too Deep

7. Pieces

8. Underclass Hero

9. Motivation

10. Makes No Difference (alt vers)

11. With Me

12. Handle This

13. Over My Head (Better Off Dead)

14. Pain For Pleasure

15. The Hell Song (live)

Editorial Reviews

As they begin work on their fifth full-length studio album (due for release later this year), RIAA platinum Island Records group Sum 41 takes time out to assess their career so far on ALL THE GOOD SHIT: THE BEST OF SUM 41 . The newly-compiled album, first issued November 2008 in Japan (Sum 41's biggest international territory outside their native Canada and the U.S.), will arrive in the North American physical and digital marketplace on March 17th. The collection also offers a bonus dvd featuring the band's eclectic videos over the course of their career

This marks Sum 41's first collection, 14-songs and 13 videos that draw from their debut mini-album Half Hour Of Power (2000), and their four full-length albums, All Killer No Filler (2001), Does This Look Infected? (2002), Chuck (2004), and Underclass Hero (2007). Also featured on ALL THE GOOD SHIT is a live version of "Hell Song."

ALL THE GOOD SHIT is Sum 41's first new release since Underclass Hero, which debuted at #1 (and earned instant gold certification) in Canada and Japan - where it ousted fellow Island band Bon Jovi's Lost Highway from the top in Japan after a one month run at #1. Underclass Hero was self-produced (for the first time) by the band's own Deryck Whibley, who wrote and produced tracks for (his wife) Avril Lavigne's then-current album, The Best Damn Thing.

Underclass Hero was Sum 41's long awaited follow-up to Chuck (October 2004), #10 on the Billboard 200 with more than 1 million copies sold worldwide. The album was named for the United Nations worker who daringly rescued Sum 41 from bombs and gunfire during the filming of a documentary in the Congo with the nonprofit group War Child Canada.

The CD + DVD will be packaged in a brilliant box. The DVD tracklisting will be as follows:

* Still Waiting
* Hell Song
* Fat Lip
* We're All To Blame
* Walking Disaster
* In Too Deep
* Pieces
* Underclass Hero
* Motivation
* Makes No Difference
* With Me
* Over My Head
* Pain For Pleasure

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars It's A Greatest Hits For Better or For Worse, July 20, 2009

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Flap Jackson "Sky Is Burning, But At Least We... (State Road, NC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: All the Good Shit: 14 Solid Gold Hits, 2001-2008 [CD & DVD] (Audio CD)

In describing the sound of Sum 41 I'd say it's Blink-182 meets Beastie Boy meets Rage Against The Machine, then all of them get into a fight & the result is strangely original if not inconsistent. Their sound changed so much from song to song it was hard to tell if it was even the same band, but they always had an anti-authoritarian feel to their music & lyrics.

Highlights Include:
Still Waiting
Fat Lip
In Too Deep
Pieces
Underclass Hero
With Me

What's probably most disjointed about the album is not the sound, but the tracklisting, as it bounces from album to album, so it all runs together after awhile, which makes things a bit confusing. One minutes they're angry, the next minute they're bouncing off the walls in rebellion. In terms of song selection, they got the major highlights, but then they reached too far into the bin and pulled out some songs best left in. These tracks could have best been replaced by some alternative versions of their hits, and no, not the lames excuses for "live" tracks at the ends. Sure, the sound quality is different, but where's the crowd?

Anyways, if you want to get to know Sum 41, and you don't own any of the band's previous work, then this will set you up. For fans however, this album provides really nothing, and in fact it shows a bit too much of the bad side of the band. However, the DVD portion is nice. So, it's all the good stuff, then some. But again, a new album should be releasing soon, so did we really need this?

Real Score: 3.5

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good S#@t, Indeed!, November 7, 2010

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Paige Turner "Paige" (New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: All the Good Shit: 14 Solid Gold Hits, 2001-2008 [CD & DVD] (Audio CD)

Sum 41 is an under-rated "post-punk punk group" in the generation of Green Day. I find them far superior simply because they do not let heavy political crap suck the energy out of their teen-angst, guitar-driven music. Their music has enough edge and energy to really rock out to, and the lyrics speak to frustration without being depressing.

This greatest hits collection is a powerhouse. Somehow, though, I always find myself going back to "Does This Look Infected?" It seems like the catchiest, best songs on this CD are all from that effort. That is a testament to the "lightning in a bottle" they captured then - that CD is like a greatest hits collection on its own.

Hard-core Sum 41 fans will probably be content to simply put the best songs from their first two albums in one big play list and just listen to that. This collection will be enough for everyone else.

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome, September 1, 2011

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This review is from: All the Good Shit: 14 Solid Gold Hits, 2001-2008 [CD & DVD] (Audio CD)

Driving home from work just today, I was just thinking that for Christmas, I was going to give all my friends one of these CD's as it is one of the best CD's I have heard in a long time. It comes with the separate video CD. I play the CD with the music videos all day long at work. This way when I get a minute, I can check out a video here and there...this makes me so HAPPY!