A Hangover You Don't Deserve is the fifth studio album by American rock band Bowling for Soup.[1] It was released on September 14, 2004, as their third album with Jive Records.[1] The first single, "1985", quickly became a Top 40 staple, peaking at No. 5 on Billboard's Adult Top 40 chart.
Background
The album's name came from lead guitarist Chris Burney, who was also the name inspiration for the band's previous effort, Drunk Enough to Dance.[2]
"Almost" was meant to be the first single off the album. However, the band would receive a call from Butch Walker's manager, who suggested the band cover the SR-71 song "1985". Upon hearing the song, Reddick felt the subject matter didn't meet the band's criteria, so he asked SR-71 frontman Mitch Allan if he could make changes to the song, to which Allan said yes.[2]
Johnny Loftus, writing for AllMusic, praised the catchability of the first three tracks and Jaret Reddick's songwriting on songs like "Ohio (Come Back to Texas)", but was critical of the album containing typical pop punk production ("stuff like piano breaks, compressed vocals, and steppe farm chorus guitars") that made the band sound too close to similar bands like Goldfinger and Lit, saying that "most of the time it's very hard to hear Bowling for Soup around Hangover's radio and video-ready sheen."[3]Entertainment Weekly writer Brian Hiatt felt that tracks like "1985" were not enough to sustain a whole album, saying that, "Like a lower-SATs version of Fountains of Wayne, the Texas quartet tries to write silly/clever lyrics to go atop their high-carb pop melodies. But too much of the humor (rhyming "Miss Texas" with "bigger breast-es"?) functions on a Jackass: The Band level."[4]
Each version of the album, excluding the DualDisc version, has a number of tracks that are four to five seconds of complete silence, titled "[Blank]", between the last song and "Ohio (Reprise)". The number of tracks varies upon the version, but "Ohio (Reprise)" and "Belgium (Boy Band Remix)" are tracks 43 and 44 respectively on all versions.
UK edition
No.
Title
Length
18.
"Somebody Get My Mum" (not on first pressing)
3:20
Total length:
61:43
Japanese edition
No.
Title
Length
18.
"Somebody Get My Mum"
3:20
19.
"Bipolar" (also appears on the Australian "1985" single and U.K. "1985" Single 1)
2:39
Total length:
64:22
DualDisc version
CD side
Tracks 1–17 of standard edition
DVD side
Entire album in 5.1 Surround Sound (including "Ohio (Reprise)" and "Belgium" (Boy Band Remix) as tracks 18 and 19 respectively)
