Ocean Avenue

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Ocean Avenue
Yellowcard studio album

Publication
(s)

2003

Label (s) Capitol Records

Format (s)

CD, LP

Genre (s)

Alternative rock, pop punk

Title (number)

13

running time

47 min 16 s

occupation
  • Guitar: Ben Harper
  • Drums : Longineu W. Parsons III

production

Neal Avron

chronology
The Underdog EP
(2002)
Ocean Avenue Lights and Sounds
(2006)

Ocean Avenue is the fourth studio album of American alternative rock - band Yellowcard and also their major label debut. It was released under the Capitol Records label and contains 13 tracks.

The album was a commercial success in the United States, especially through the single Ocean Avenue of the same name , where it was awarded platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America and gold by the Canadian Recording Industry Association .

success

In the first week, 11,000 copies of Ocean Avenue were sold in the United States. With this album, Yellowcard was able to place itself in the Billboard Top 200 for the first time. To date, it has sold over 1,000,000 copies in the US alone and is the band's most successful album.

reception

Xian Yang from laut.de describes it as low-tension, polished and replaceable.

Ocean Avenue is a solid and consistent record that has made a believer out of me. - Nicky Madsen.

Nico Schuth from Alterna-Stage.de describes Ocean Avenue Acoustic as "[...] 13 songs that don't hurt anyone, sound great and are a great opportunity to get to know the band better."

The theme song won the MTV2 Award at the MTV Video Music Awards 2005 .

Charts

year Charts position
2004 New Zealand Albums Chart 8th
US Billboard 200 23
British music charts 149

Track list

  1. Way Away - 3:22
  2. Breathing - 3:38
  3. Ocean Avenue - 3:19
  4. Empty Apartment - 3:36
  5. Life of a Salesman - 3:18
  6. Only One - 4:16
  7. Miles Apart - 3:32
  8. Twentythree - 3:27
  9. View from Heaven - 3:10
  10. Inside Out - 3:40
  11. Believe - 4:31
  12. One Year, Six Months - 3:05
  13. Back Home - 3:57

Individual evidence

  1. http://www.laut.de/Yellowcard/Ocean-Avenue-(Album)
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