A Place in the Sun (Lit album)

Template:Use mdy dates Template:Use American English Template:Infobox album A Place in the Sun is the second studio album by the American rock band Lit, released on February 23, 1999.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Release

Produced by Don Gilmore, the album was released on February 23, 1999 by Dirty Martini and RCA Records. It was the band's first release through a major label. The song "No Big Thing," which appeared on their previous album Tripping the Light Fantastic, was re-recorded for this album, and eventually appeared on the auto racing video game Jarrett & Labonte Stock Car Racing.

The song "Quicksand" appears on the Clockstoppers soundtrack from 2002.

On December 9, 2013, the band announced on its Facebook page that it would perform a special 15th anniversary show for A Place in the Sun, when the band would play the entire album from start to finish on February 28, 2014, at the House of Blues in Anaheim, California.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

A digital expanded edition of A Place in the Sun containing live versions of "Four" and "Quicksand," an acoustic version of "Down," and the B-side "Money," was released in 2020 in celebration of the album's 21st anniversary.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Reception and legacy

Template:Album ratings The album peaked at #31 on the US Billboard 200 chart and #1 on the Billboard Heatseekers Albums chart. Three singles from the album were released: "My Own Worst Enemy", "Zip-Lock," and "Miserable." A Place in the Sun has been certified gold by in sales by the RIAA in the United States on June 21, 1999, and later certified platinum by the RIAA on October 27, 1999.

The first single from A Place in the Sun, "My Own Worst Enemy," reached #1 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart for eleven weeks, reached #6 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart. "My Own Worst Enemy" was certified double platinum by the RIAA on May 8, 2020, 21 years after the single's release. The album's second single, "Zip-Lock," peaked at #11 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart and #34 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart. "Miserable," the third single from the album, peaked at #3 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart and #29 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart.

A Place in the Sun received mixed reviews. Leslie Matthew in AllMusic described it as "an album that is sonically more focused, but it also unfortunately makes the band sound like replicas of a dozen of their post-grunge contemporaries: neither Better Than Ezra or Less Than Jake".<ref name="allmusic"/> At NME, the songs "My Own Worst Enemy" and "No Big Thing" were described as having "a hook as sharp and persistent as a leech". It went on to say, "Gonzoid trash fun maybe, but how we got from The Dead Kennedys to here remains a mystery."<ref name=NME/> NME listed the album as one of "20 Pop Punk Albums Which Will Make You Nostalgic".<ref name="WPCleanerAuto1" />

The album was a massive influence on Eve 6's Horrorscope (2000), Good Charlotte's Good Charlotte (2000), American Hi-Fi's American Hi-Fi (2001), The All-American Rejects' Move Along (2005) and Zebrahead's Broadcast to the World (2006).<ref>Sayce 2014, p. 36</ref>