This Addiction (Deluxe CD + DVD) [Enhanced]

Alkaline Trio | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 23, 2010)
• Original Release Date: 2010
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Enhanced
• Label: Epitaph
• ASIN: B0031WY1EK
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #28,899 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. This Addiction

2. Dine, Dine My Darling

3. Lead Poisoning

4. Dead On the Floor

5. The American Scream

6. Off the Map

7. Draculina

8. Eating Me Alive

9. Piss and Vinegar

10. Dorothy

See all 17 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. DVD - Live At the House of Blues, Las Vegas, NV. 2008

Editorial Reviews

Alkaline Trio It's been 11 years since Alkaline Trio released their first full-length album, Goddamnit. In that time, they've toured the world, sold over a million records, and expanded their sound radically beyond their original straight-ahead punk style, incorporating production slick enough to earn them mass exposure on outlets like MTV's The Hills. Now with This Addiction, their seventh album and first for Epitaph, the Chicago rockers are heading back to their roots. This deluxe version a DVD of Alkaline Trio live at the House of Blues, Las Vegas 2008, and 6 additional bonus tracks.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This Addiction, February 24, 2010

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Kevin Conaway - See all my reviews
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This review is from: This Addiction (Audio CD)

Unlike many longtime fans, I have actually enjoyed the progress that Alkaline Trio has made since their debut over a decade ago to 2008's Agony & Irony. The band has shown great leaps in songwriting and musicianship. They've matured as musicians and artists. The writing has become much more melodic and the hooks have gotten stronger.

2010's This Addiction is the perfect combination of the new mature songwriting style with the original punk edge that they debuted with. The songs are dark, powerful, and fast (for the most part), yet still melodic. There should be enough on this album to satisfy both old fans and newer fans of the band.

Some personal favorites are the title track, which sounds very reminiscent of their early days, the hard and fast rocker American Scream, and the beautifully melodic Draculina.

My only regret in buying this album is that I hastily bought it before I realized that there was a deluxe version of it available. The deluxe version is only $2 more and offers 6 more tracks and a bonus live DVD. You can't beat that!

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Something Old, Something New, March 11, 2010

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Weston (Tucson, AZ USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: This Addiction (Deluxe CD + DVD) (Audio CD)

For a band with seven studio albums and other numerous appearances, it's almost impossible not to compare their new material with their old. That's just fine in the case of Alkaline Trio, since the band is doing what it's always done since 1996.

On their latest effort, "This Addiction", Alkaline Trio take a step backwards from their last attempt, "Agony & Irony", to go back to the tried-and-true drawing board. "Agony" seemed to be the Trio's attempt at injecting their timeless formula with some new spin, and it didn't translate well from the idea to the album. The sound that we've come to know and love wasn't the same, and after such a long break after "Crimson" (I'm not counting "Remains", as it was B-sides), we were ready to be refreshed.

This new album, however, embraces what Alkaline Trio has always done, and done well. The hooks are catchy, the lyrics and rhyme metering are clever. Some songs sound like polished-up versions of classics, with "Dead On the Floor" sounding like a bit of a nod to "Radio", and "Piss and Vinegar" sounding like just a drop of "I'm Dying Tomorrow". However, their attempts to infuse a new methodology of playing the same four-chord progression falls a bit in songs like "Dorothy" and another attempt at a Cure-sounding track on "Eating Me Alive" just can't deliver.

Overall, this album is better than their last, but not as perfectly polished as "Crimson". It's the new sound of Alkaline Trio, that they started with "Good Mourning", and it's just like restoring an old muscle car - it's the same ride, just shinier.

5.0 out of 5 stars More catchy than ever and full of hooks !!!!!!!!!!!!!!, January 18, 2012

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Cyber Freak - See all my reviews

This review is from: This Addiction [Deluxe Edition] (MP3 Download)

This is a great album in my opinion more catchy than ever and full of hooks and great lyrics and the acoustic songs at the end on the bonus version add a nice touch.