Chuck (album)
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| Studio album by Sum 41 | ||||
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CD, LP |
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13 |
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37:59 |
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Chuck is the third studio album by the Canadian punk band Sum 41 . It was released on October 11, 2004 and produced by Greig Nori. The album climbed to number 10 on the US Billboard 200 chart and number 2 on the Canadian album charts. Chuck achieved double platinum status in Canada, gold status in the US, and sold approximately 2 million copies worldwide.
In contrast to the more fun punk-oriented albums All Killer No Filler and Does This Look Infected? political issues are also addressed on Chuck for the first time. This is mainly due to the experiences of the band during their stay in the Democratic Republic of the Congo , where Sum 41 was surprised while filming a documentary about the conflict between two rival ethnic groups and could only be saved from their hotel, which had come under fire, thanks to UNO employee Chuck Pelletier . Because they owed their lives to Chuck Pelletier, Sum 41 dedicated the album to him and named it Chuck . The song We're All To Blame was written by Deryck Whibley after the album was actually finished and is about the band's realization after their trip to the Congo. Originally the song Noots was planned to be third on the track list, but it was then replaced by We're All To Blame and used as a bonus track for the European version. The song can also be heard in the Japanese monster film Godzilla: Final Wars .
Musical style
Chuck is a very varied album. So there are typical punk songs for Sum 41 ( No Reason or Open Your Eyes ), but also songs that are more metal-like ( We're All To Blame , The Bitter End or 88 ). Chuck also contains the first ballad in Sum 41's history, Pieces .
Track list
| # | title | length | comment |
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| 1 | Intro | 0:46 | Intro |
| 2 | No reason | 3:04 | Third single (only in US and Europe, released at the same time as Some Say ) |
| 3 | We're All To Blame | 3:38 | First single and part of the soundtrack for Godzilla: Final Wars |
| 4th | Angels With Dirty Faces | 2:23 | |
| 5 | Some say | 3:26 | Third single (only in Canada and Japan, released at the same time as No Reason ) |
| 6th | The bitter end | 2:51 | |
| 7th | Open your eyes | 2:44 | |
| 8th | Slipping Away | 2:29 | |
| 9 | I'm not the one | 3:34 | |
| 10 | Welcome to Hell | 1:56 | |
| 11 | Pieces | 3:01 | Second single |
| 12 | There's no solution | 3:18 | |
| 13 | 88 | 4:40 | |
| 14th | Noots | 3:49 | International bonus track |
| 15th | Moron | 2:00 | Bonus track of the Japanese version |
| 16 | Subject To Change | 3:17 | Bonus track of the Japanese version |
To the album
- The songs Intro , Angels With Dirty Faces , Open Your Eyes , Slipping Away , I'm Not The One , Welcome To Hell , Pieces and 88 were mixed by Andy Wallace, the remaining five by Tom Lord-Alge.
- The title of the bonus track Subject To Change is to be taken literally, as it is a demo recording that has yet to be changed. The bridge's vocal melody was incorporated into the final chorus of No Reason . The chorus is identical to the 2007 single Underclass Hero .
- Exclusively on iTunes, the album only had the bonus track Get Back , which Sum 41 recorded with Ludacris .
Chart placements
album
| year | title | Chart positions | ||||||||
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| CA | JPN | US | FRA | OUT | DE | CH | AT | UK | ||
| 2004 | Chuck | 2 | 2 | 10 | 9 | 13 | 32 | 14th | 35 | 59 |
Singles
| year | title | Chart positions | ||||
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| US | CA | DE | AT | CH | ||
| 2004 | We're All to Blame Chuck |
10 | 8th | - | - | - |
| 2005 | Pieces Chuck |
14th | 1 | 84 | - | - |
| 2005 | Some Say (Canada and Japan only) Chuck |
- | 10 | - | - | - |
| 2005 | No Reason (US and Europe only) Chuck |
16 | - | - | - | - |
Web links
- Album review at laut.de.
- Chuck at Allmusic (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c billboard.com: [1] Accessed October 7, 2010. (English)
- ↑ Associated CD booklet by Chuck
- ↑ Sum 41 Album & Song Chart History - Oricon Charts . Retrieved July 10, 2011.
- ↑ lescharts.com: [2] Retrieved October 16, 2010 (French)
- ↑ australian-charts.com: [3] Retrieved October 16, 2010
- ↑ musicline.de: Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated May 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved October 7, 2010.
- ↑ hitparade.ch: [4] Retrieved on October 7, 2010
- ↑ austriancharts.at: [5] Retrieved October 7, 2010
- ↑ Chuck in the Official UK Charts (English)
- ↑ a b billboard.com: [6] Retrieved October 16, 2010 (English)
- ↑ musicline.de: Archived copy ( memento of the original from January 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Accessed October 7, 2010. (German)
