A Hangover You Don't Deserve

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A Hangover You Don't Deserve is the fifth studio album by American rock band Bowling for Soup.<ref name="Posterous">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> It was released on September 14, 2004, as their third album with Jive Records.<ref name="Posterous"/> The first single, "1985", quickly became a Top 40 staple, peaking at No. 5 on BillboardTemplate:'s Adult Top 40 chart.

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.<ref name="hangover">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

"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.<ref name="hangover" />

Critical reception

Template:Album ratings 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 HangoverTemplate:'s radio and video-ready sheen."<ref name="AM"/> 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."<ref name="EW"/>

Track listing

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.

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)

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

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2004 weekly chart performance for A Hangover You Don't Deserve

Chart (2004)	Peak position
Australian Hitseekers Albums (ARIA)<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>	20
Canadian Albums (Nielsen SoundScan)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	89
US Billboard 200<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>	37

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2025 weekly chart performance for A Hangover You Don't Deserve

Chart (2025)	Peak position

Year-end charts

Year-end chart performance for A Hangover You Don't Deserve

Chart (2005)	Position
US Billboard 200<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>	185

External links

• A Hangover You Don't Deserve at YouTube (streamed copy where licensed)