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These Are the Good Times People

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Released
  
March 11, 2008

Length
  
39:05

Release date
  
11 March 2008

Label
  
Fugitive Recordings

Recorded
  
2006 – 2007

These Are the Good Times People (2008)
  
Kudos to You! (2014)

Producer
  
Kurt Bloch

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Artist
  
The Presidents of the United States of America

Genres
  
Alternative rock, Pop punk

Similar
  
The Presidents of the United States of America albums, Alternative rock albums

These Are the Good Times People is the fifth studio album by The Presidents of the United States of America. It was released on March 11, 2008. This is their first album to feature Andrew McKeag instead of Dave Dederer on guitbass.

Contents

Track listing

All songs written by Chris Ballew unless otherwise noted.

"More Bad Times" is a loose cover of an Ed's Redeeming Qualities song.

Bonus Tracks

  • "Rooftops in Spain" – 2:41 (UK iTunes / Japan CD)
  • "Scrappy Puppy" – 2:54 (all iTunes)
  • "Truckstop on the Moon" – 4:14 (Walmart mp3 store)
  • "What the Hell" – 3:30 (Amazon / Napster)
  • Personnel

  • Chris Ballew – vocals, basitar
  • Andrew McKeag – guitbass
  • Jason Finn – drums
  • Fysah Thomas – vocals on "Deleter"
  • Mark Hoyt – backing vocals on "Poor Turtle"
  • The Love Lights Horn Section - on "Sharpen Up Those Fangs", "Ghosts are Everywhere" and "Deleter"
  • Jerimiah Austin – trumpet
  • Sarah Jerns – trumpet
  • Diana Dizard – baritone sax
  • Martin Feveyear – mixing
  • Response

    Critical response to These Are the Good Times People was mixed. The album so far has a Metacritic rating of 56 out of 100 based on "mixed or average reviews". musicOMH remarked, "There's nothing complicated on this album, but then when did things ever need to be complicated?" Allmusic said that in view of the lineup changes, the album is "perhaps their most eclectic album to date." Billboard found that while nothing on the album is as immediately memorable as "Lump" or "Peaches," several tracks "come across as less novelty-like as a result of songcraft." Uncut magazine felt the record was "the desperate death-throe of a rank '90s relic."

    Songs

    1Mixed Up SOB3:04
    2Ladybug2:33
    3Sharpen Up Those Fangs3:05

    References

    These Are the Good Times People Wikipedia