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| When Your Heart Stops Beating | 
 enlarge | Artist: (+44)
Label: Interscope Records
Category: Music
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Avg. Customer Rating:  56 reviews
Sales Rank: 15150
Format: Explicit Lyrics
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 000775402
UPC: 602517079588
EAN: 0602517079588
ASIN: B000J233J4
Release Date: November 14, 2006
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| Tracks:
| • | Lycanthrope | | • | Baby Come On | | • | When Your Heart Stops Beating | | • | Little Death | | • | 155 | | • | Lillian | | • | Cliffdiving | | • | Interlude | | • | Weatherman | | • | No, It Isn't | | • | Make You Smile | | • | Chapter 13 |
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A few years ago, it would have been impossible to imagine the members of Blink 182 occupied with anything that didn't involve poop jokes and pixilated private parts. Now Tom DeLonge is channeling early U2 with Angels and Airwaves while former bandmates Mark Hoppus and Travis Barker have reunited as +44, another numerical band named after the international calling code for the United Kingdom. The twitchy punk rhythms, adolescent accented vocals, and blockbuster choruses of their former outfit remain, as does producer Jerry Finn, but songs like "Baby Come On" and the spooky "Little Death" show the musicians finally delivering the substance that was promised on Blink 182's self-titled 2003 release. "A little death makes life more meaningful," Hoppus sings on that latter. --Aidin Vaziri
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 Finally November 14, 2006
13 out of 17 found this review helpful
Mark and Travis have continued the Blink legacy. Though I miss Tom's voice on some tracks, I can easily have seen this album as a followup to the self titled last Blink 182 album. Though it has the fun punk-pop songs I love, it also has some maturity and experimentation. I like this much more than the Angels and Airwaves album which seemed so far removed from the Blink sound which I will always be a fan. Though I would have made Lycanthrope the first single, When Your Heart Stops Beating is a good up tempo song as well. If you purchase the album over at iTunes they include a bonus song which is just an acoustic very of "Baby, Come On". Pick this one up.
Great album. November 16, 2006
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I think that Plus 44 is kind of picking up where Blink 182 left off. With the last few albums of Blink they showed a sense of maturity, and I think that sense of maturity has carried over with Mark and Travis. Some of the songs are a completely different instance than any individual Blink song, but you can just hear the Blink in some of them. I like the direction that Plus 44 seems to be going and the only thing I wish would be different about this album is add Carol back in. That'd give the band more of a vocal "edge," but oh well, Mark's voice is still pretty good. Admittedly it's not as good as Tom's voice, but it still has a certain desirable feature I don't know how to describe.
I would recommend any fan of Blink 182 or Boxcar Racer to buy this album. The song "Little Death" resembles some of Blink's slower songs, the song "Lycanthrope" resembles some of Blink's faster songs, and the song "No It Isn't" is something completely different. Actually No It Isn't is moreso emo than anything else, and normally I don't like emo, but this song catches my interest. The lyrics are amazing, the tempo is amazing, and the only thing that would have made the song better, again, is Carol's voice. (Actually, she used to have a major backup role in the end of the song but when she left the band her voice pretty much faded away from the song.)
Good album altogether, I'll be eagerly waiting for their next production.
No, It Isn't November 16, 2006
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
The first song I heard by +44 was "No, It Isn't." That's fitting, because when I heard "When Your Heart Stops Beating" my first thought was "so this is what blink would've sounded like had they not broken up." Upon hearing the album, my first thought is a response to the former: "No, it isn't." Granted, some songs like "Cliffdiving," "155," and "When Your Heart Stops Beating" sound like they could've been taken off of what would've been blink-182's seventh full-length album. Putting that idea aside and focusing on the album as a whole, +44 have created a beautiful debut album which is both familiar and unique at the same time. Stealing a line from "Baby Come On," "Isn't there something familiar about me? The past is only the future with the lights turned on." I think one of the best songs on the album is "Make You Smile," which sounds like it could've been a b-side to Death Cab For Cutie's Transatlanticism. Another band that this album really brings to mind is Motion City Soundtrack, having a similar guitar style and the same steady beats. So to those of you who were hoping this would be blink-182 without Tom, then congratulations: Mark and Travis will not disappoint. And for those who wanted something new: listen to "Waetherman" and "Little Death" and tell me that Mark isn't broadening his horizons.
And for the record, I loved Angels and Airwaves album as well. So I'm not picking sides.
Beats Angels and Airwaves November 16, 2006
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
When I first heard the No, It Isn't demo, I'll admit that I was very dissappointed. But then I heard Lycanthrope and When Your Heart Stops Beating, which definitely raised my interest in Plus 44. Then I heard the album version of No It Isn't and Cliff Diving. At that point, I made it a priority to get this album when it came out.
I bought the album, came home, inhaled a subway sub, then put this into my CD player. This CD is amazing, and it definitely beats Angels and Airwaves.
Each song has its own identity, and there's no filler songs. I'm glad to see that (+44) did not abuse electronic instruments. They found the perfect blend of rock and electronic music for this album. Every instrument is balanced on this album.
Just so you know, the single, When Your Heart Stops Beating, is not an indicator of what this album sounds like. There are all sorts of influences on this album. It's like a cross between The Cure and blink 182, but with a completely new sound mixed in there as well.
Shane and Craig show amazing guitar work on this album. Their parts work together perfectly, and never weaken. Mark and Travis also show amazing work, as always. I would also like to point out that, although his voice has a lot of effects on it, this is Mark's best vocal work yet.
Even if you're not a fan of blink, buy this!
Think of it as a much faster and darker Blink 182 December 7, 2006
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
I had never really been much of a Blink 182 fan until their self-titled (and unfortunately, final,) CD. It really nearly reached perfection and it was unfortunate that afterwards, the band's singers, Mark and Tom, ran into disagreements on which direction to take the band. They released their own solo projects, Tom's Angels and Airwaves and Mark's +44. These CD's demonstrate which direction each singer had apparently wanted to take Blink 182 so owning both of them are pretty necessary for any Blink fan.
Plus 44 attempts to continue where Blink 182 left off with their darker CD. Unlike Angels and Airwaves, Plus 44 keeps the fast punk cords but keeps up the darker tone and the CD's certainly more even in quality than Angels and Airwaves's first effort. I just kind of wish Plus 44 had put more thought into a message they wanted to convey.
For example, there's no theme here, no real presentation. The CD simply starts, and continues with a bunch of songs. Rather than feeling like a CD put together with lots of thought, it's like listening to random songs selected off an Ipod. Although there's no introduction to the CD or band at all, the CD features an "interlude," which sounds completely out of place and doesn't fit in at all with the rest of the CD. While Angels and Airwaves put thought into their CD with things like a general theme to their songs, Plus 44's first CD seems just like Mark and his band simply recorded tons of songs, picked the best ones, and threw them on here.
Not that it's necessarily a bad thing. This is a collection of truly excellent songs here. And while it's definitely less ambitious than former bandmate Tom's effort, this is an overall more fun CD to listen to and is definitely easier to get into.
Lycanthrope; a great beginning to the CD. Really fast and melodic. Really excellent lyrics. Overall, great song. 8/10
Baby Come On; Gets off to a great start. Continues very well with great music and lyrics. A little forgettable, though. 7/10
When your heart stops beating; A really great song, again. Very catchy. 8/10
Little Death; It's an alright song. I didn't find its chorus all that good, though. 7/10
155; Really cool music, really catchy beat. Nothing truly special about it but a fun song. 7/10
Lillian; An excellent song. Great lyrics and overall great music. 9/10
Cliffdiving; Not a fan. Predictable and stale lyrics and kind of generic music. Sounds like an underwhelming Blink song. Filler. 5/10
Interlude; an "intermission" that sounds nothing like the rest of the CD and sounds out of place. It's got a good tune, but really, what's it doing on this CD? 6/10
Weatherman; heavy lyrics but a little too slow. Kinda boring. 5/10
No, It Isn't; basically a perfect song. Best lyrics on the CD and really great tunes. This one's a classic. 10/10
Make You Smile; Definitely a departure from the rest of the CD. A nice listen, even though it really feels slightly out of place, (the entire CD was at one point meant to sound like this song but they changed direction at the last minute. This is the remains of the electronic-tone the band originally wanted to go in) I'm glad it's on there, even though it's a bit out of place. 8/10
Chapter 13; Great end to the CD. Nice lyrics like the rest of the CD. Cool chorus and verses. 9/10
We have a CD here that's loaded with great songs. Many. Mark has shown that he has much more strength than Tom for writing lyrics, (something Angels and Airwaves struggled with in their first effort,) while Tom has shown much more strength at conveying a message or set theme and for variety. This CD just feels kinda thrown together and the songs are ALL love songs. Now...they aren't all songs about lust. The ones that are are the weak points of the CD. The strengths here are the very fast beats and the very interesting lyrics that keep things interesting. I still wish they would find something different to sing about, though. Overall, it's maybe a little better, although not necessarily as memorable, as Angels and Airwaves's first effort. Both CD's have their strengths and weaknesses. But just like that one, +44 is still behind where Blink 182 left off with their final CD. Songs here are all about love, and seem to be playing it a little safe, which is too bad, because the lyrics here are truly excellent, and I think Mark could write some great songs about other things if he tried. This is basically like Blink's final CD but even a little darker. Unlike that CD, though, which I gave 5 stars to, this doesn't have much variety. The songs here sound a little too similar to eachother.
It's worth owning all 3 CD's, (Blink 182, We Don't Need to Whisper, and When Your Heart Stops Beating) because they complement eachother very well. Hopefully this band will reunite someday, though, because that's where they're best.
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