A Hangover You Don't Deserve

A Hangover You Don't Deserve
Studio album by
Bowling for Soup
ReleasedSeptember 14, 2004
Recorded2004
StudioRuby Red Productions
(Atlanta, Georgia)
Valve Studios
(Dallas, Texas)
Genre
Length58:23
Label
Producer
Bowling for Soup chronology
Drunk Enough to Dance
(2002) 		A Hangover You Don't Deserve
(2004) 		Bowling for Soup Goes to the Movies
(2005)
Bowling for Soup studio chronology
Drunk Enough to Dance
(2002) 		A Hangover You Don't Deserve
(2004) 		The Great Burrito Extortion Case
(2006)
Singles from A Hangover You Don't Deserve
  1. "1985"
    Released: July 27, 2004
  2. "Almost"
    Released: January 4, 2005
  3. "Ohio (Come Back to Texas)"
    Released: November 17, 2005

A Hangover You Don't Deserve is the fifth studio album by American rock band Bowling for Soup.[3] It was released on September 14, 2004, as their third album with Jive Records.[3] The first single, "1985", quickly became a Top 40 staple, peaking at No. 5 on Billboard's Adult Top 40 chart.

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.[4]

Background and recording

After the success of the band's previous effort, Drunk Enough to Dance, especially with the single "Girl All the Bad Guys Want" earning a Grammy nomination, the band were given a higher budget and confidence from their label Jive Records, thus giving them more freedom for the recording sessions.[5]

Producer Butch Walker, who worked on their previous effort, teamed up with the band again for this one, co-writing and producing three tracks with singer Jaret Reddick. However, Reddick would then ultimately decide to have Walker work on the pre-production instead, with himself and engineer Russ-T Cobb handling most of the production.[5]

"Almost" was meant to be the first single off the album.[5] However, the band would receive a call from Walker's manager, who suggested the band cover the SR-71 song "1985", which was only available in Japan on their third album Here We Go Again.[6] 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.[4]

Release and reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[7]
Entertainment WeeklyC+[8]
Melodic[1]
PopMatters6/10[2]

The album's lead single, "1985", released on July 27, 2004, and upon release, charting no. 23 on the US Billboard Hot 100, with a no. 10 peak on the US Pop Airplay chart.[6] The album released on September 14, 2004, peaking at no. 37.[6] The album's second single, "Almost" released on January 4, 2005, charting no. 45 on the Hot 100[9] and no. 1 on the UK OCC Rock & Metal Singles chart.[10] The third and final single, "Ohio (Come Back to Texas)", released on November 17, 2005.

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."[7] 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."[8]

Legacy

"Ohio (Come Back to Texas)" was used as a Wake-Up Call on Day 10 of the Space Shuttle Discovery's final mission, STS-133, at the request of the crew, on March 5, 2011.[11]

From mid-2024 to early 2025, the band embarked on "A Hangover You Don't Deserve 20th Anniversary Tour", where they performed the album in its entirety.[12][13] On October 24, 2024, the band released the live album A Hangover You Definitely Deserve, which was recorded during the tour's show in Manchester.[14][15]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Almost"Jaret Reddick, Butch Walker3:27
2."Trucker Hat"Reddick, Walker3:01
3."1985"Reddick, Mitch Allan, John Allen3:13
4."Get Happy"Reddick, Zac Maloy2:57
5."Ohio (Come Back to Texas)"Reddick, Maloy, Ted Bruner3:51
6."Ridiculous"Reddick, Casey Diiorio3:58
7."Shut-Up and Smile"Reddick, Maloy4:03
8."Last Call Casualty"Reddick, Walker3:32
9."Next Ex-Girlfriend"Reddick, Jeff Coplan3:26
10."A-Hole"Reddick, Miles Zuniga3:57
11."My Hometown"Reddick3:02
12."Smoothie King"Reddick, Maloy4:02
13."Sad Sad Situation"Reddick, Zuniga, Tony Scalzo2:26
14."Really Might Be Gone"Reddick3:43
15."Down for the Count"Reddick3:37
16."Two-Seater"Reddick, Maloy3:55
17."Friends O' Mine"Reddick, Zuniga, Scalzo2:18
18."Ohio" (Reprise)Reddick, Maloy, Bruner7:17
19."Belgium" (Boy Band Remix)Reddick5:15
Total length:58:23

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.TitleLength
18."Somebody Get My Mum" (not on first pressing)3:20
Total length:61:43
Japanese edition
No.TitleLength
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)
  • Entire album In Stereo PCM
  • "1985" (video)
  • "Almost" (video)
  • "Ridiculous" (video)
  • "Two-Seater" (acoustic) (video from RollingStone.com Originals)

B-sides

No.TitleLength
1."Major Denial" (released on the Australian and UK "1985" Single 1 and 2)2:25
2."Make It Up to You" (released on the Australian "1985" single and UK "1985" 7" vinyl)3:53
3."Girl All the Bad Guys Want (Kerrang! Radio Session)" (released on UK "Almost" single)3:27
4."Undertow" (released on Bowling for Soup Goes to the Movies)3:31

Personnel

Bowling for Soup

  • Jaret Reddick – lead vocals, guitars, producer
  • Erik Chandler – bass, vocals
  • Chris Burney – guitars, vocals
  • Gary Wiseman – drums, percussion

Production

  • Russ-T Cobb – producer, engineer, mixing
  • Butch Walker – producer
  • Casey Diiorio – producer, mixing
  • Sean Loughlin – assistant engineer
  • Christie Priode – project coordinator
  • Tom Lord-Alge – mixing (tracks 1 and 3)
  • Chaz Harper – mastering
  • Jason Janik – album photography

Additional musicians/backing vocals

  • Butch Walker
  • Russ-T Cobb
  • Joey Huffman
  • Jeff "FFroe" Roe
  • Howie
  • Sim Klugerman
  • Sean Loughlin
  • JT Hall
  • Shelly Truesdell
  • Candice Leigh Andrews
  • Sybil Summers as the "ex" in "Down for the Count"

Locations

  • Recorded and mixed at Ruby Red Productions (Atlanta, Georgia) & Valve Studios (Dallas, Texas)
  • Mixed at South Beach Studios (Miami, Florida)
  • Mastered at Battery Mastering (NYC)

Charts

Certifications

Certifications for A Hangover You Don't Deserve
Region Certification Certified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI)[24] Silver 60,000‡
United States (RIAA)[25] Gold 500,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

References

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  3. ^ a b "A List of the 11 BFS studio albums (for my twitter peeps)". January 5, 2011. Archived from the original on July 15, 2011. Retrieved January 6, 2010.
  4. ^ a b "Bowling For Soup "A Hangover You Don't Deserve" Complete History". Alternative Press. December 12, 2019 – via YouTube.
  5. ^ a b c Howell, Maddy (November 4, 2024). "Bowling For Soup talk 20 years of A Hangover You Don't Deserve". Ticketmaster.
  6. ^ a b c Dailey, Hannah (April 24, 2024). "The Creators of Bowling for Soup's '1985' Look Back: The Power of Nostalgia & Why Debbie Gets the Last Laugh". Billboard.
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  8. ^ a b Hiatt, Brian (September 24, 2004). "A Hangover You Don't Deserve". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on April 25, 2009. Retrieved April 26, 2012.
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  10. ^ "Official Rock & Metal Singles Chart".
  11. ^ "NASA - STS-133 MCC Status Report #18". nasa.gov. Retrieved December 27, 2021.
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  13. ^ Carter, Emily (June 17, 2024). "Bowling For Soup announce A Hangover You Don't Deserve 20th anniversary tour". Kerrang!.
  14. ^ Barnes, Kelsey (October 27, 2025). "Bowling for Soup revisit A Hangover You Don't Deserve with new live LP". Alternative Press.
  15. ^ Garner, Emily (September 2, 2025). "Bowling For Soup announce A Hangover You Definitely Deserve (Live) album". Kerrang!.
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