There was no specific time I had to do anything. The band allowed me to create when I was able to create, which was a good thing. “I wouldn’t say it was hard to make any of the record but it definitely was time consuming,” Bert says. Between a few sporadic tours, the band spent about three months total recording with Squire where they allowed their creativity to dictate when they worked on something. Tracking for the album began in June of 2008 with producer Matt Squire and eventually concluded in February of 2009, primarily at LA studios The Lair and NRG. The band members dubbed the music they were writing “gross pop,” their own new genre of hook-laden numbers that pushed the boundaries of the grotesque. 5 on the Billboard Top 200, spent the first half of 2008 in LA exploring and refining these ideas, eventually piecing tangential riffs and melodies into a scattering of songs that contained a surprisingly cohesive sensibility. The Used, whose last album, 2007’s Lies For the Liars, debuted at No. The group started writing the album after finishing the Taste of Chaos International tour in 2007, slowly collecting and jamming out ideas with no concrete intention beyond making the songs as dirty as possible. Now, the Utah band has titled their fourth full-length album with that very word: Artwork. The sentiment, which, to Bert and his bandmates in The Used, resonated with both extreme simplicity and indescribable complexity, said everything without really having to say anything. In a 2012 interview, The Used bassist Jeph Howard said that "A Box Full of Sharp Objects" is probably his favorite song by the band.Ī few years ago, while preparing to send the album art for b-side collection Shallow Believer to his record label, Bert McCracken scrawled the word “Artwork” across its cover in silver ink. The band has achieved both Gold and Platinum statuses in over 6 countries worldwide. They spent the entire year of 2008 working on their fourth studio album, Artwork, which was released September 1st, 2009. An EP, Shallow Believer, was released in February 2008 that featured most of the band's B-sides to date. They followed up with their second album, In Love And Death, in September 2004 and their third album, Lies For The Liars, in May 2007. Soon after a CD/DVD package named "Maybe Memories" was released containing unheard demos and a "behind the scenes" story of the band/band's past. They signed with Reprise Records in late 2001 and rose to fame in June 2002 after releasing their debut self-titled album, The Used. Their sound has been classified under many sub-genres of rock. Read Full Bio The Used is an American alternative rock band from Orem, Utah. ![]() ![]() The Used is an American alternative rock band from Orem, Utah. Written by: BRANDEN STEINECKERT, JEPH HOWARD, QUINN ALLMAN, ROBERT MCCRACKEN I'm willing to give you everything I have You could become so important to me that my life revolves around you I believe you have the power to change me ![]() I'm not sure if I can trust you completely, but I'm willing to try Intense feelings can be both powerful and painful Will your passion be too much for me to handle? To come across a person who is so special I've been waiting for someone like you for ages Would you like to have me as your partner? I'm so far gone now I been running on empty I wanted you to be aware of my thoughts and feelings I'm starting to see things from a different perspective You surprised me with how much power you have over me
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