Focus on the artwork, as the Used are telling you via the title of their fourth album.
It's an ugly beast of a picture of a man shoving a syringe labeled "ART" into an arm bearing "WORK" scrawled in blood on it.
What it all means is unclear -- is art being injected into work, is art the drug -- but what is evident is that the Used still take all this emotional bloodletting very, very seriously indeed.
Four albums in, they're also taking the business of being in a band very seriously too, demonstrating a greater command of dynamics and a certain measure of professional panache, something adolescent, an adenoidal rush of their early screamo.
This, of course, isn't quite the same thing as a considerable uptick in songcraft, but hooks never mattered to the Used anyway, so having a higher grade of execution helps underscore the Used's point, which ironically just makes the whole thing uglier and harder to take.
| Title/Composers | Performer | Listen | Time | Size | Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Blood On My HandsThe Used | The Used | Play | 03:17 | 7 MB | 24 MB |
| 2 | Empty With YouThe Used | The Used | Play | 03:23 | 7 MB | 24 MB |
| 3 | Born To QuitThe Used | The Used | Play | 03:33 | 8 MB | 26 MB |
| 4 | Kissing You GoodbyeThe Used | The Used | Play | 04:08 | 9 MB | 27 MB |
| 5 | Sold My SoulThe Used | The Used | Play | 04:12 | 9 MB | 29 MB |
| 6 | Watered DownThe Used | The Used | Play | 03:57 | 9 MB | 28 MB |
| 7 | On The CrossThe Used | The Used | Play | 03:07 | 7 MB | 23 MB |
| 8 | Come UndoneThe Used | The Used | Play | 03:23 | 7 MB | 24 MB |
| 9 | Meant To DieThe Used | The Used | Play | 03:46 | 8 MB | 27 MB |
| 10 | The Best of MeThe Used | The Used | Play | 04:29 | 10 MB | 30 MB |
| 11 | Men Are All The SameThe Used | The Used | Play | 05:54 | 13 MB | 41 MB |
| 43 mins | 99 MB | |||||
| 43 mins | 308 MB | |||||
| Artist | Job | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Craig Aaronson | A&R |
| 2 | Quinn Allman | Guitar, Photography, Vocals |
| 3 | Bill Appleberry | Digital Editing |
| 4 | Neal Avron | Mixing |
| 5 | Edward Colver | Assistant |
| 6 | Nicolas Fournier | Mixing Assistant |
| 7 | Jeph Howard | Bass, Vocals |
| 8 | Ted Jensen | Mastering |
| 9 | Frank Maddocks | Cover Photo, Creative Director, Design |
| 10 | Bert McCracken | Drawing, Handwriting, Piano, Vocals |
| 11 | Paul Rayner-Brown | Artwork, Photography |
| 12 | Matt Squire | Engineer, Producer |
| 13 | The Used | Composer, Primary Artist |
| 14 | Dan Whitesides | Drums, Vocals |
| Quality | Format | Encoding | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| CD Quality | FLAC | 16bit 44.1kHz | FLAC is an audio coding format which uses lossless compression. Digital audio in FLAC format has a smaller size and retains the same quality of the original Compact Disc (CD). |