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13 tracks | 46 minutes
Released Jan 2007
on NeedleDrop Records
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:15 Heads Up Face Down lyrics BUY MP3 02:15 Heads Up Face Down lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:15 Heads Up Face Down
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:13 Disco Shoes lyrics BUY MP3 03:13 Disco Shoes lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:13 Disco Shoes
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:12 Another Second Chance lyrics BUY MP3 02:12 Another Second Chance lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:12 Another Second Chance
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:40 Goin' Around With You lyrics BUY MP3 03:40 Goin' Around With You lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:40 Goin' Around With You
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:24 Be There Again lyrics BUY MP3 04:24 Be There Again lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:24 Be There Again
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 05:14 Stay lyrics BUY MP3 05:14 Stay lyrics "GIFT MP3" 05:14 Stay
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:30 Home lyrics BUY MP3 03:30 Home lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:30 Home
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:00 Take Away lyrics BUY MP3 03:00 Take Away lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:00 Take Away
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:46 I Love You But You Can't Come Home lyrics BUY MP3 02:46 I Love You But You Can't Come Home lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:46 I Love You But You Can't Come Home
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:58 Won't Be The One lyrics BUY MP3 04:58 Won't Be The One lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:58 Won't Be The One
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:37 I'm Done lyrics BUY MP3 03:37 I'm Done lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:37 I'm Done
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:03 The Bend lyrics BUY MP3 04:03 The Bend lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:03 The Bend
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:37 Crush lyrics BUY MP3 03:37 Crush lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:37 Crush
Getting divorced has never been so catchy and powerful.
Bio / Background
Sensitive Lead Vocalist: “There’s no polite or delicate way to say this, so I’ll just say it: I’m getting divorced.”
Wisecracking Guitar Player: “Really? Me, too...” (he wasn’t joking)
They say misery loves company. When Nine Fifty set up shop to build their own version of Frustrated, Incorporated in the fall of 2003, they were a typical independent (i.e. - unpopular) Chicago band working on their second album, Heads Up Face Down. The 13 songs about upheaval, transition, redemption and (of course) heartbreak were born from the personal chaos of one shattered marriage, sown by the sympathetic despair of another bruising divorce and finally brought to fruition amidst a number of internal and external band breaches. Fellow indie bands take note: your record should never take more than a year to finish! In the end, however, the music was more about the company than the misery.
↓ more ↓2005 was particularly ‘challenging’: the band’s original bass player was dismissed, the group parted ways with their long-time manager and the bottom fell out from the record’s funding. A new bassist was hired, the entire catalog of songs was re-learned and a year-long series of live performances commenced to raise the thousands of dollars necessary to complete the album. One fondly remembered ’gig’: Home Depot + Round Lake Beach + Blizzard. Oh yes.
2006 brought the abrupt resignation of the new bass player (literally fleeing from the stage immediately following the group’s Abbey Pub performance) and the band hiring their third bassist in as many years. Following several additional months in the recording and rehearsal studios, the album was ultimately finished and the band was finally complete.
Writing, performing and recording the music together was never just a method to manage the madness, it was the only way to deal with it. Each track is a fragment of the picture documenting the anarchy which engulfed but never dissolved the band. The result is a record filled with classic American guitar rock, forged by a headstrong fire of sheer will and determination.
As a certain schmaltzy rock star would say, “Here’s one for friendship”.
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