Does This Look Infected?

Does This Look Infected?
Studio album by Sum 41
Publication (s)	November 25, 2002
admission	2002
Label (s)	Mercury / Iceland
Format (s)	CD
Genre (s)	Punk rock , pop punk , alternative rock
Title (number)	12
running time	31 min 6 s
occupation	Vocals , guitar : Deryck Whibley Drums , background vocals : Steve Jocz Bass , backing vocals : Jason McCaslin Lead guitar , backing vocals : Dave Baksh
production	Greig nori
Studio (s)	Avatar Studios, New York City
chronology All Killer No Filler 2001 Does This Look Infected? Chuck 2004
Single releases December 2, 2002 Still waiting February 10, 2003 The Hell Song June 23, 2003 Over My Head (Better Off Dead)

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

Does This Look Infected?   DE 58 12/09/2002 (9 weeks)   AT 49 12/08/2002 (10 weeks)   CH 17th 12/08/2002 (17 weeks)   UK 39 December 07, 2002 (6 weeks)   US 32 12/14/2002 (27 weeks)

Singles

Still waiting   DE 90 12/02/2002 (1 week)   CH 97 01/19/2003 (1 week)   UK 16 11/30/2002 (7 weeks) The Hell Song   UK 35 02/22/2003 (3 weeks)

Does This Look Infected? is the second album of the Canadian punk - band Sum 41 . It was released on November 25, 2002 by Mercury / Island .

Creation and publication

The recordings for the album began in the summer of 2002. Avatar Studios in New York City were chosen as the studio and Greig Nori as the producer.

The album was released in German-speaking countries on November 25, 2002, and one day later the album was released in North America . The British version contains two additional titles, Reign In Pain and WWVII Parts 1 & 2 . Furthermore, Is This Look Infected? the band's only album to feature the Parental Advisory sticker. Therefore, in addition to the actual version, an album with censored titles was released.

Track list

#	title	length
1.	The Hell Song	3:18
2.	Over My Head (Better Off Dead)	2:29
3.	My Direction	2:02
4th	Still waiting	2:38
5.	ANIC	0:37
6th	No brains	2:46
7th	All messed up	2:44
8th.	Mr. Amsterdam	2:56
9.	Thanks for nothing	3:04
10.	Hyper-Insomnia-Para-Condrioid	2:32
11.	Billy whimsy	2:32
12.	Hooch	3:28

reception

The album was mostly rated only average by critics .

Gregory Britsch awards 3 out of 5 stars on laut.de and writes that the album is only average, but fun.

The album gets 5 out of 10 points on plattentests.de . Critic Sven Cadario says that the music is only mediocre, but the album still sounds kind of nice.

whiskey-soda.de awards the school grade 2+ and describes the album as a second work not suitable for radio, and as a damn good pop punk album.

Stephen Thomas Erlewine from allmusic.com awards 3 out of 5 stars and writes that the music is nothing new, but that it still sounds nice.

Awards

• Silver record
  • Great Britain
• Golden record
  • United States
  • Switzerland
• Platinum record
  • Canada

Web links

• Does This Look Infected? at Allmusic (English)
• Criticism on laut.de
• Criticism on plattentests.de
• Criticism on whiskey-soda.de
• Title list on hitparade.ch

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Charts DE Charts AT Charts CH Charts UK Charts US
2. ↑ ^{a b} Gregory Britsch: The main thing is that everyone is good druff. On: laut.de. Retrieved June 11, 2011
3. ↑ Credits on allmusic.com (English). Retrieved June 11, 2011
4. ↑ Sven Cadario: Brightly colored . On: plattentests.de. Retrieved June 11, 2011
5. ↑ Criticism ( Memento of the original from October 24, 2013 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. on whiskey-soda.de. Retrieved June 11, 2011 
6. ↑ Stephen Thomas Erlewine: Review on allmusic.com (English). Retrieved June 11, 2011
7. ↑ Awards for Music Sales in Great Britain . On: the BPI website (search). Retrieved June 11, 2011
8. ↑ Awards for Music Sales in the United States . On: riaa.com. Retrieved June 11, 2011
9. ↑ Awards for music sales in Switzerland . On: Hitparade.ch. Retrieved June 11, 2011
10. ↑ Awards for Music Sales in Canada . On the Music Canada website . Retrieved June 11, 2011