A Hangover You Don't Deserve

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.

A Hangover You Don't Deserve
Studio album by Bowling for Soup
Released	September 14, 2004
Recorded	2004
Studio	Ruby Red Productions (Atlanta, Georgia) Valve Studios (Dallas, Texas)
Genre	Pop punk power pop
Length	58:23
Label	Jive FFROE Zomba
Producer	Butch Walker Russ-T Cobb Jaret Reddick Casey Diiorio
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
"1985" Released: July 27, 2004 "Almost" Released: January 4, 2005 "Ohio (Come Back to Texas)" Released: November 17, 2005

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]

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[3]
Entertainment Weekly	C+[4]
Melodic	[5]

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]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Almost"	Jaret Reddick, Butch Walker	3:27
2.	"Trucker Hat"	Reddick, Walker	3:01
3.	"1985"	Reddick, Mitch Allan, John Allen	3:13
4.	"Get Happy"	Reddick, Zac Maloy	2:57
5.	"Ohio (Come Back to Texas)"	Reddick, Maloy, Ted Bruner	3:51
6.	"Ridiculous"	Reddick, Casey Diiorio	3:58
7.	"Shut-Up and Smile"	Reddick, Maloy	4:03
8.	"Last Call Casualty"	Reddick, Walker	3:32
9.	"Next Ex-Girlfriend"	Reddick, Jeff Coplan	3:26
10.	"A-Hole"	Reddick, Miles Zuniga	3:57
11.	"My Hometown"	Reddick	3:02
12.	"Smoothie King"	Reddick, Maloy	4:02
13.	"Sad Sad Situation"	Reddick, Zuniga, Tony Scalzo	2:26
14.	"Really Might Be Gone"	Reddick	3:43
15.	"Down for the Count"	Reddick	3:37
16.	"Two-Seater"	Reddick, Maloy	3:55
17.	"Friends O' Mine"	Reddick, Zuniga, Scalzo	2:18
18.	"Ohio" (Reprise)	Reddick, Maloy, Bruner	7:17
19.	"Belgium" (Boy Band Remix)	Reddick	5:15
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.	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)
• Entire album In Stereo PCM
• "1985" (video)
• "Almost" (video)
• "Ridiculous" (video)
• "Two-Seater" (acoustic) (video from RollingStone.com Originals)

B-sides

No.	Title	Length
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
• FFroe
• 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

Weekly charts Chart (2004) Peak position Scottish Albums (OCC)[6] 65 UK Albums (OCC)[7] 64 US Billboard 200[8] 37

Year-end charts Chart (2005) Position US Billboard 200[9] 185

Singles

Year	Single	Chart	Position
2004	"1985"	Adult Top 40	5
		The Billboard Hot 100	23
		Top 40 Mainstream	10
		Top 40 Tracks	13

Certifications

Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI)[10]	Silver	60,000‡
United States (RIAA)[11]	Gold	500,000^
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. ‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.