Before Everything & After MXPX

BUY THIS ITEM

  • $13.99 List price
    $12.59 Online price
    (Save 10%)
    $11.33 Member price
    Join Now
    • skip to cart
  • Add To List uiAction=GetAllLists&page=List&pageType=list&ean=602498605929&productCode=MU&maxCount=100&threshold=3

GET FREE SHIPPING ON ORDERS OF $25 OR MORE

DELIVERY & GIFT DETAILS:

Usually ships within 24 hours

Delivery Time and Shipping Rates

Eligible for gift wrap & gift message.

Enter a zip code

CD - Enhanced

  • Release Date: 09/16/2003
  • Sales Rank: 93,764
  • Label: A&M
  • UPC: 602498605929

Listener Rating: (98 ratings)

See All Detailed Ratings

 
  • Overview
  • Tracks
  • Editorial Reviews
  • Customer Reviews
  • Details & Credits
Track List
Click on LISTEN or link to hear an audio clip.
To listen to samples you'll need a Windows Media Player

Before Everything & After

1LISTENBefore 0:20
2LISTENPlay It Loud / Halo Friendlies 3:18
3LISTENWell Adjusted 3:39
4LISTENIt's Alright / Benji Madden 3:01
5LISTENBrokenhearted / Kris Roe 2:10
6LISTENFirst Day of the Rest of Our Lives 3:01
7LISTENEverything Sucks (When You're Gone) 2:57
8LISTENQuit Your Life 3:38
9LISTENMore Everything 2:50
10LISTENKings of Hollywood / Jordan Pundik 3:41
11LISTENThe Capitol 2:50
12LISTENOn the Outs / Benji Madden 3:11
13LISTENDon't Walk Away 3:59
14LISTENYou Make Me, Me 3:06
15LISTENYou're Not Alone / Jordan Pundik 3:40
16LISTENAfter 1:43

About this Artist

Editorial Reviews

Mike Herrera, Yuri Ruley, and Tom Wisniewski have been rocking the kids for Ten Years and Running, as their 2002 retrospective proudly puts it. While their third outing for A&M mostly traces the peaks and valleys of a bipolar relationship, tracks like "Play It Loud" and "Kings of Hollywood" assert the band's van-touring pride and dedication to "left coast punk rawk" [sic]. Reaching out to freshly minted suburbanite punk Benji Madden for guest vocals only solidifies the band's status as ten-and-five men. For Before Everything & After, the veteran trio has embraced the big-budget punk-pop treatment that regularly tweaks albums by junior leaguers like A New Found Glory or Madden's own Good Charlotte. Mixing from the ubiquitous Lord-Alge brothers squeegees clean each cut, plugging power chords into punchy drum fills, processing vocals to within an inch of their humanity, and putting pop accessibility way before any punk revivalist relevancy. You might recognize "Well Adjusted" from its role in a popular Pepsi commercial; in any case, its vintage Green Day crunch is powerful. The song's carefully cleansed grit will light up the LEDs on your car stereo, but if you can tell it apart from its brethren, you win a Hercules wristband. Following standard operating procedure, Before Everything's handful of rock anthems is accompanied by a midsection of pop-punk power ballads. Synths, treated piano, surging string sections, and robot vocal processing all dress up "Don't Walk Away" and "Quit Your Life," where Herrera gives his emotional perspective on a bicoastal romance. Johnny Loftus, All Music Guide

Customer Reviews

Before Everything & Afterby Anonymous

Reader Rating:
See Detailed Ratings

December 04, 2005: This is such an amazing album! I love MXPX! Check out the songs Brokenhearted and First Day of the Rest of Our Lives! You won't be dissappointed with this CD if you decide to buy it which I totally recommend!

Before Everything & Afterby Anonymous

Reader Rating:
See Detailed Ratings

November 24, 2004: i'm a huge MXPX fan, but this is too soft for them. it sounds too much like a bunch of backstreet boys songs put to faster music. i liked the older stuff, that was louder and faster. its ok, bu titcould be skipped.


More Customer Reviews