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All Killer No Filler

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So what the hell are a bunch of canadians doing on this cd? Playing a great mix of pop and skater punk, thats what. I really didn't expect much on this cd. The low price tag didn't do too much to reverse my opinion either. I went in not too familiar with the band. I heard their single Fat Lip and thought it was a good, catchy song. The video for it was great too. At any rate I got the cd and heres my take on it. To start with I think the lyrics are good. They go well with the music and such. I like the mix of topics. Sum 41 doesn't try to be The Ataris and do the bitchin' about girls in every song nor do they try to be Blink 182 with stupid potty humor. Again, good mix of topics. Fat lip is your basic punk rock theme song. Rebelling against anyone who ain't down with us. It's a good song. Shows the bands intentions. I don't hold Fat Lip in the highest regards on the cd. That goes to Handle This. Good lyrics and great use of vocals and guitar.

Theres something about the way the cd sounds that is just awesome. The guitars come thru all nice and crunchy. The bassist is pretty damn good. The drummer is decent. I like on the vocals how everyone gets involved. This is a trend I like. Breaks up the monotony. Pain For Pleasure is a great sounding song, even if it is a joke song. Fat Lip is great to listen too. It builds up the intensity till an almost orgasm-like effect on the last chorus with the guitars. These canadians let their guitars hang out and it's for the best

Good cd. Nothing that will win any awards. It's fresh and isn't as nice to the general public than Blink 182. I doubt any 14 year old girls are going to be wetting themselves to get to this band. A nice, bright future for the boys of Sum 41. Can't wait till the next cd, eh?

Well, it was 2001, and for some reason they were showing a 15 second clip of "In too deep" on Nickelodeon. I was 7, and I was into Green Day at the time, and I thought their sound was great, so I went to the store and bought this album. At that time, I didn't realize how amzing this album was, but I sure do now. This is not only a great album, but it's probably one of the top 3 best pop-punk albums of all time. I don't skip one song, and every song has me singing along. All Killer No Filler is one of the best albums in my collection, and I'm sure it will always be.

All Killer No Filler starts out with an intro called "Introduction To Destruction" which is funny, and it made for a great intro before they played their shows (ex: Live in Astoria). 8/10

Next up is "Nothing on my Back" which is a great way to kick this album off. The chorus is catchy and easy to remember, and this is definatly a highlight of the album. 10/10

"Never Wake Up" is like 44 seconds long and pretty hard to understand, it's fast and probably was just added as filler (contradicting the title) but it's good filler anyway. 8/10

"Fat Lip" is one of the best pop-punk songs of all time. It's catchy hooks and raps on the verses have you singing along each time it comes on the radio, the stereo or wherever you hear it. The video for this song is also awesome. 10/10

"Rhythms" comes next, and I recommend it. It is probably my third favorite. The guitar is what hooks you in at the beginning and the chorus sticks in your head for days. 10/10

Despite what many people will say the third single "Motivations" is actually not one of my favorites. The chorus is pretty good, but I don't listen to this one very much, and as I recall, I never did like it too much. Still it's a good song, just not my type. 8/10

Ah yes, "In Too Deep", probably my favorite song on the album. I remember this was the first song that I memorized the words too on this album. I love this song, and the video is amazing, I remember the first time i saw the clip of bizzy d diving on nickolodeon before I bought this album. This will probably always be my favorite song by Sum 41 because it was the first that I ever heard. 10/10

"Summer" is a great song, but after I bought Half Hour Of Power (My second Sum 41 cd) I realized this was almost the exact same recording and that was dissapoining. It still gets five stars cuz I love the words and the music. 10/10

"Handle This" is another one of my favorite songs from the album because it is different, and I thought it was cool that they did a slower song, plus it had great lyrics and awesome guitar playing by dave. 10/10

To this day, I still don't get why they names song 10 "Crazy Amanda Bunkface", but it's a good song, and it's a faster one, and I like to rock out and run around and stuff to it. Catchy lyrics, strange name. 10/10

"All She's Got" is so friggin catchy, I can't get it out of my head on any day. The bridge featurs great guitar playing for dave as usual and bizzy d sings great. Awesome song. And it's also great live. 10/10

"Heart Attack" is a cool song, cuz it goes from slow to fast and soft to loud, and is pretty much the only song on the album that does that. As I said, I like different songs, this one, is another one that is about liking sleep (see Never Wake Up) and in my opinion, I think Never Wake Up should have been placed in front of this song instead, cuz it'd make alot more sense. 10/10

"Pain For Pleasure" is a joke song with Steve-O 32 on vocals, I'm pretty sure it's just filler, It's a funny listen, I like it. 8/10

Overall Grade: 94 A-

This is probably one of the best pop-punk albums of all time, and for fans of Green Day and Blink-182, This is a must have. This is Sum 41's best cd. But if you are looking for selections like this one, buy their debut Half Hour of Power, their dvd, Introduction to Destruction, and then buy Does This Look Infected? and Chuck, which are different than this album due to Dave Baksh's harder influences. Due to Dave's recent departure from Sum 41 to start his own harder band, The Brown Brigade, Sum 41 may be going back to its Pop-Punk roots. Still, their two newer releases are great.

Sum 41 does basically does the same thing here that they did for Half Hour of Power. In fact, they even recycle the song "Summer" from their first disc. It's a bunch of pretty catchy 2 or 3 minute songs filled with power chords and standard main-stream punk mentallity. Good Stuff. Half Hour may have succeeded a little more as far as pure catchiness goes, but this one expanded their sound a bit more and they succeeded at it for the most part. Check out the hilarious mpeg video included on the disc for the minute and a half long hair-metal inspired 'Pain for Pleasure.' Standouts include 'Nothing On My Back,' 'Fat Lip,' 'Rhythms,' and 'Heart Attack.' If you liked Half Hour of Power, then by all means go for All Killer No Filler.

This is the cd that got me listening to Sum 41 and I always been satisfied with all 4 of there cd's. This was a great cd for them and made them known more then what they were when they released there first album. This was a change for them kinda being more punk/rock then there first,and fourth cd that were more punk/metal. This is a great cd with awesome vocals, guitar and drums in every song. I don't think there were any solos on this cd. We all know that Dave can play the guitar well though. The drumming on this cd is good but not as good as what is on there other releases. The songs for Motivation, Fat Lip, and In Too Deep are cool. Overall this is a great cd to own. Almost every song I can listen to anytime and never get bored listening to it. Well worth the price.

TRACK RATINGS:
1.Intro-(:37)-N/A
2.Nothing On My Back-(3:07)-10/10
3.Never Wake Up-(:50)-10/10
4.Fat Lip-(2:58)-10/10
5.Rythms-(2:59)-10/10
6.Motivation-(2:50)-10/10
7.In Too Deep-(3:27)-10/10
8.Summer-(2:49)-9/10
9.Handle This-(3:37)-10/10
10.Crazy Amanda Brunkface-(2:16)-10/10
11.All She's Got-(2:22)-10/10
12.Heart Attack-(2:49)-10/10
13.Pain For Pleasure-(1:43)-9/10

So like this album is like crazy fast right. I mean, you can listen the whole thing thru and it gets you sooo pumped up with adrenaline that you feel like you can take on anyone! Have it blasting in your car stereo with some crazy loud speakers and before you know it, the people in the cars next to you are rocking out!! Even grams and gramps!! Totally recommend this album AND any other album released by Sum 41.

The cd is all together really good except pain for pleasure i f***ing hate that song. The Good Songs are Fat Lip, In Too Deep, Crazy Amanda Bunkface, and Motivation. My opinion is if you like skatebording youll like this cd and if you like punk youll like this cd.

To the person who reviewed this using all capitals before, get your facts right before your say stuff about a group of people who supposedly like a band or style of music!

Firstly...I LOVE SUM41! And I....

DON'T SKATE
DON'T HAVE POSER FRIENDS
DON'T THINK I'M COOL
I AM NOT PUNK
I DON'T DRESS PUNK
I DON'T CONSIDER MYSELF A REBEL
I DON'T HATE MY PARENTS

So before you say something that MIGHT be true about other Sum41 fans, make sure you know that people like their music for all different reasons.

I know it's not the punk of the old days, but it's new pop punk style and not everyone is going to like it...BUT I DO! And I don't like their music coz I am trying to be some sort of cool punk or something! I listen to it coz I like the sound of it, that's why I listen to music...coz I LIKE IT! Not coz anyone else does...END OF STORY!!!

I got this CD because I liked a few songs on it, but now I can't stop listening to it and I just love the tracks1-8 I listen to them over and over and never get sick of them

I thought they did when I first put "All Killer No Filler" Into my CD player cause their style is straight out of "The Big Bumper Book Of Punk Rock (Volume 41)" this is not to say that Sum 41 are unoriginal, far from it, it means that punk rock: "if it aint broke don't fix it" Sum 41 twist the genre a little bit however as they are a bit more of a rap/punk group, not in the same league as Limp Bizkit or Linkin Park, but just imagine Blink 182 songs with the Beastie Boys rapping over them then you're kind of getting what I mean. On track 4, the highly successful single, "Fat Lip" the vocals are very similar to the Beastie Boys, the fact that Sum 41 are on the Beastie Boy's old record label (Def Jam) may be a connection here but I am yet to discover this as true. The track originally at the end of the "Fat Lip" music video can be found as the last track of "All Killer No Filler" and is called "Pain For Pleasure" Backed up by a very funny video, i think it is a mischeivous and rebellious way of Sum 41 saying repeating the line from "Fat Lip": "Judas and Priest were the gods that we praised!". This is to remind us of how it all began and not to forget the groups who started the game "Back in the day!"

Sum 41 pull out all the stops and give us something that you can really head-bang to (Dude ranch style) and basically something to make you feel young again (if you're old that is.) This is a fresh mix of new, youthful talent and experimental techniques. They may be all killer! but "Killed off" is something you wont see in regard to Sum 41!!!

I heard Sum 41's "Fatlip" on Mtv and decided to pick it up. It turned out to be the best best C.D. that I have ever got!!! Every song is just as good as "Fatlip". I listened to it over and over until it got stuck in my C.D. player. Now I can't get it out, but if you like punk rock, you should buy this C.D--Wait a minute,back up. If you are ALIVE, you should buy this C.D! It will be the best day of your life!!!