Alien Ant Farm - truANT

2003

Track Listing                        

1. 1000 Days                                          7. Never meant                                                         

2. Drifting apart                                       8. Goodbye                                                                  

3. Quiet                                                   9. Tia Lupe                               

4. Glow                                                   10. Rubber mallet                                                              

5. These days                                        11. S.S. recognize                                    

6. Sarah wynn                                        12. Hope               

Band Members:                                                                                                                

Dryden Mitchell - Vocals     Terry Corso - Guitars     Tye Zamora - Bass

Mike Cosgrove - Drums       Several studio musicians - All other instruments

Produced By:   DeLeo Bros.                                                                       

Notes

For some reason this album did not do as well as their first release, ANThology, which I don't understand.  I personally believe this album blows their debut away.  It just isn't straight hard/alternative rock, you can tell there was a lot of work put behind it.  These days was the hit from this album, which was also on the EA Sports video game soundtrack for Madden 2004.  If it wasn't from that track being a part of the Madden series, I may have never known of this track and this album.  truANT reached number 43 on the Billboard Pop charts.  The CD booklet is one of the most original booklets I have seen.  The lyrics appear on what looks like papers written for school, with grades and grammar suggestions.

Recommendations

If you're into the metal/alternative rock scene, then you may want to check this album out.  It is not as heavy as their debut album, but to me the songs are better and catchier. 

If you plan on purchasing truANT

After the release of Madden 2004, my brother Bob bought this album for me, and he did a great job, he bought me the two disc enhanced version.  After doing further research it seems that they only released an enhanced version, which includes a nice lengthy DVD of what went on with the making of this album.  In 2007 there was another release of this album, which is exactly the same as the original with just an extra track.  I recommend owning the 2003 enhanced version which can be purchased at your local record store and at Cdnow.com.

If you don't plan on purchasing truANT but want to hear some tracks from it

As I said earlier this album as a whole is better than their debut, so if you own that, you really should own truANT.  If you are passing this up I do recommend that you own the tracks Glow and These days, which can be found at Itunes or Napster.  I do recommend checking out my top 5 tracks as well and my Ideal compilation at my Alien Ant Farm Home Page.

My Top 5