Brand New - Your Favorite Weapon
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Release date: 09 October 2001
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- The Shower Scene
- Jude Law and a Semester Abroad
- Sudden Death in Carolina
- Mix Tape
- Failure by Design
- Last Chance to Lose Your Keys
- Logan to Government Center
- The No Seatbelt Song
- Seventy Times 7
- Secondary
- Magazines
- Soco Amaretto Lime
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Brand New - Your Favorite Weapon: Wikipedia Album Entry
Your Favorite Weapon (2001) is the debut full-length album by Long Island-based band Brand New.
The album consists largely of power chord-heavy pop-punk songs, detailing the highs and lows of teenage relationships and experiences. As of 2009, the band has begun to perform some tracks from this release more frequently, such as "The Shower Scene"; "Jude Law and a Semester Abroad"; "Mixtape"; "The No Seatbelt Song"; "Seventy Times 7" and "Soco Amaretto Lime".
The song title "Seventy Times 7" in Your Favorite Weapon comes from a verse in the Holy Bible - Matthew 18:22 - where Jesus tells Peter he must forgive his brother "seventy times seven times" - "Then Peter came and said to him, "Lord, if another member of the church sins against me, how oft should I forgive? As many as seven times?" Jesus said to him, "Not seven times, but, I tell you, seventy times seven times.". The song is about a disagreement between Jesse Lacey and childhood friend John Nolan, then-guitarist in Taking Back Sunday. Taking Back Sunday later released "There's No 'I' in Team," which is their side of the story. Lacey and Nolan are now on good terms again and are well past the issue.
A line in "The Shower Scene" (which itself is a reference to Alfred Hitchcock's film Psycho) which reads "It's time for you to choose / The bullet or the chapstick" is an allusion to a speech by Malcolm X entitled "The Ballot or the Bullet".
In August 2002, Iodine Recordings released Your Favorite Weapon on vinyl along with an extra track, "...My Nine Rides Shotgun", a song from the band's early days. This is also available as a bonus track on the Japanese release of the album. This vinyl pressing was done on blue vinyl, and is exceedingly rare. The few copies that do surface online tend to fetch prices near $200.
The band also stated on numerous occasions that they weren't entirely happy with the recordings of the songs, and in 2002, re-recorded "Jude Law and a Semester Abroad" and released it for free on MP3.com.
The album was finally released in the UK on March 17, 2003, by Eat Sleep Records, followed shortly by the single "Jude Law and a Semester Abroad", released on CD and 7" vinyl, two and a half months later on June 2, 2003. "Jude Law and a Semester Abroad" had also previously been made into a music video, helping the band gain many fans across the world.
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Brand New - Your Favorite Weapon Lyrics
Brand New - Jude Law and a Semester Abroad Lyrics
Whatever poison is in this bottle
Will leave me broken sore and stiff
But it's the genie at the bottom
Who I'm sucking at, he owes me one last wish
Brand New - Shower Scene Lyrics
It's funny how your worst enemies always seem to
Turn out to be all of your best friend's best friends
But I folded and I told, these aren't things I've saved to sink you
But I folded and I told, so draw or throw and I will explode
Brand New - Sudden Death In Carolina Lyrics
Last night I swallowed liquor and a lighter
And this morning I threw up fire
But it's nothing new
I've been piecing it together and it's got something to do
Brand New - Mix Tape Lyrics
I got a twenty-dollar bill
That says, 'No one's ever seen you without makeup
You're always made up'
And I'm sick of your tattoos
Brand New - Failure By Design Lyrics
Watch you on the one's and two's
Through a window in a well lit room
Become a recluse
And I blame myself 'cause I make things hard
Brand New - No Seatbelt Song Lyrics
So it's sad this doesn't suit you now and me fresh out of rope
Please ignore the lisp, I never meant to sound like this
So take me and break me and make me strong like you
I'll be forever grateful to this and you
Brand New - Seventy Times 7 Lyrics
Back in school, they never taught us what we needed to know
Like how to deal with despair or someone breakin' your heart
For twelve years, I've held it all together
But a night like this is beggin' to pull me apart
Brand New - Soco Amaretto Lime Lyrics
Passed out on the overpass
Sunday best and broken glass
Broken down from the bikes and bars
Suspended like spirits over speeding cars
