When Your Heart Stops Beating [Enhanced, Import]

+44, 44 | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 18, 2006)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Enhanced, Import
• Label: Universal
• ASIN: B000JLSWV4
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (60 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,721,574 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Lycanthrope

2. Baby Come On

3. When Your Heart Stops Beating

4. Little Death

5. 155

6. Lillian

7. Cliff Diving

8. Interlude

9. Weatherman

10. No, It Isn't

11. Make You Smile

12. Chapter 13/Non-Musical Silence

13. Baby Come On (Acoustic Version)

14. Weatherman (Acoustic Version)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

A few years ago, it would have been impossible to imagine the members of Blink 182 occupied with anything that didn't involve poop jokes and pixilated private parts. Now Tom DeLonge is channeling early U2 with Angels and Airwaves while former bandmates Mark Hoppus and Travis Barker have reunited as +44, another numerical band named after the international calling code for the United Kingdom. The twitchy punk rhythms, adolescent accented vocals, and blockbuster choruses of their former outfit remain, as does producer Jerry Finn, but songs like "Baby Come On" and the spooky "Little Death" show the musicians finally delivering the substance that was promised on Blink 182's self-titled 2003 release. "A little death makes life more meaningful," Hoppus sings on that latter. --Aidin Vaziri

Product Description

When Your Heart Stops Beating Explicit Version CD: Former blink-182 co-founders Mark Hoppus and Travis Barker have reunited under the aegis of a new band, (+44), and will release their much anticipated album, When Your Heart Stops Beating on Interscope Records. The album is produced by Hoppus and Barker and executive produced by long-time blink-182 producer Jerry Finn. Recruited for their new journey as (+44) pronounced Plus (+44) Shane Gallagher (The Nervous Return) and Craig Fairbaugh (Transplants, The Forgotten, Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards) join singer-bassist Hoppus and drummer-keyboardist Barker and pick up where the popular, multi-platinum-selling band blink-182 left off after splitting in late 2004. We were twothirds of blink-182, so we're not afraid of sounding like ourselves, says Hoppus. We're not divorcing ourselves from the past, but we are pushing beyond the past. We're progressing like musicians should. Barker agrees: Mark and I have a natural chemistry after playing together for so long and it's only gotten stronger. This band is a continuation of blink-182 but it's also different. For a long time, blink-182 was an underdog. I like being the underdog again. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Customer Reviews

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18 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Finally, November 14, 2006

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Ron (Jersey) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: When Your Heart Stops Beating (Audio CD)

Mark and Travis have continued the Blink legacy. Though I miss Tom's voice on some tracks, I can easily have seen this album as a followup to the self titled last Blink 182 album. Though it has the fun punk-pop songs I love, it also has some maturity and experimentation. I like this much more than the Angels and Airwaves album which seemed so far removed from the Blink sound which I will always be a fan. Though I would have made Lycanthrope the first single, When Your Heart Stops Beating is a good up tempo song as well. If you purchase the album over at iTunes they include a bonus song which is just an acoustic very of "Baby, Come On". Pick this one up.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great album., November 15, 2006

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Kyle Gundrum (Ohio, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: When Your Heart Stops Beating (Audio CD)

I think that Plus 44 is kind of picking up where Blink 182 left off. With the last few albums of Blink they showed a sense of maturity, and I think that sense of maturity has carried over with Mark and Travis. Some of the songs are a completely different instance than any individual Blink song, but you can just hear the Blink in some of them. I like the direction that Plus 44 seems to be going and the only thing I wish would be different about this album is add Carol back in. That'd give the band more of a vocal "edge," but oh well, Mark's voice is still pretty good. Admittedly it's not as good as Tom's voice, but it still has a certain desirable feature I don't know how to describe.

I would recommend any fan of Blink 182 or Boxcar Racer to buy this album. The song "Little Death" resembles some of Blink's slower songs, the song "Lycanthrope" resembles some of Blink's faster songs, and the song "No It Isn't" is something completely different. Actually No It Isn't is moreso emo than anything else, and normally I don't like emo, but this song catches my interest. The lyrics are amazing, the tempo is amazing, and the only thing that would have made the song better, again, is Carol's voice. (Actually, she used to have a major backup role in the end of the song but when she left the band her voice pretty much faded away from the song.)

Good album altogether, I'll be eagerly waiting for their next production.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars No, It Isn't, November 15, 2006

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Joshua D. Beachy "heyimaghost" (Milwaukie, Oregon) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: When Your Heart Stops Beating (Audio CD)

The first song I heard by +44 was "No, It Isn't." That's fitting, because when I heard "When Your Heart Stops Beating" my first thought was "so this is what blink would've sounded like had they not broken up." Upon hearing the album, my first thought is a response to the former: "No, it isn't." Granted, some songs like "Cliffdiving," "155," and "When Your Heart Stops Beating" sound like they could've been taken off of what would've been blink-182's seventh full-length album. Putting that idea aside and focusing on the album as a whole, +44 have created a beautiful debut album which is both familiar and unique at the same time. Stealing a line from "Baby Come On," "Isn't there something familiar about me? The past is only the future with the lights turned on." I think one of the best songs on the album is "Make You Smile," which sounds like it could've been a b-side to Death Cab For Cutie's Transatlanticism. Another band that this album really brings to mind is Motion City Soundtrack, having a similar guitar style and the same steady beats. So to those of you who were hoping this would be blink-182 without Tom, then congratulations: Mark and Travis will not disappoint. And for those who wanted something new: listen to "Weatherman" and "Little Death" and tell me that Mark isn't broadening his horizons.

And for the record, I loved Angels and Airwaves album as well. So I'm not picking sides.