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| When Your Heart Stops Beating | 
 enlarge | Artist: (+44)
Label: Interscope Records
Category: Music
List Price: $13.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  56 reviews
Sales Rank: 10772
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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 Amazing album! November 16, 2006
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
I totally LOVE this album!!! For me, it knocks Tom's effort out of the park, but quite frankly it is the warmth and strength of this album that I love, not the comparisons. I can't stop listening to "Baby Come On", it's great. A magnificent album!
 The Past Is Only the Future with the Lights On November 18, 2006
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
Don't hate (+44) because half it's members are from Blink-182, a band that is best know for songs about prank phone calls and other sophomoric lyrics. Don't hate the band because the other Blink-182 member, with his new band Angels and Airwaves, (see my review: Everyone Will Listen Even if it Hurts Sometimes) made the most pretentious album of the year had My Chemical Romance not tried to make a concept album that sounded like Queen and Pink Floyd. Don't hate the band because half of the members are from the Transplants, a band best known for letting one of their songs to be used for a female hair product. No, don't even hate the band because their drummer has been seen with his tongue in Paris Hilton's mouth on multiple occasions recently.
After Blink-182 when on an indefinite hiatus, Mark Hoppus and Travis Barker started up the new band describing it as more experimental and more electronica oriented. But after the duo recruited Craig Fairbaugh, who Barker played with in the Transplants, and Shane Gallagher from the band The Nervous Return, the electronic sound got pushed into the background as the guitars became more prominently featured on the release of When Your Heart Stops Beating. The result is just a slight variant of the old Blink-182 sound, a sound that the band was already going towards with the release of their last self titled album with a more mature sound and void of any frat boy humor.
There are some great modern rock tracks on the album, but some are just derivatives of other and it's sometimes hard to distinguish the title track with the opener Lycanthrope. Little Death should like an offshoot of Blink's I Miss You. And when the band finally lives up to its electronic promise like on 155 and the instrumental Interlude, the result is mediocre at best. An exception to that is Make You Smile where Hoppus does a heartfelt duet with Carol Heller who was part of the early carnation of the band but left to start a family.
But at least Hoppus and Barker can rest in the solace that they made a better record than their former band mate Tom DeLonge whom they may or may not have taken a dig at in the line, "This isn't just goodbye, this is I can't stand you" from the song No, it Isn't.
Spot on. (Better than the AVA album) January 2, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
+44's debut feels like Mark and Travis are picking up where Blink 182 left off... except not.
It's got the trademark punk-rock/pop-punk stylings that Blink had, but there are electronic undertones and to be honest... catchier songs than Blink 182's last release.
For someone like me who enjoys a range of music (metal, punk rock, pop, electronica, ska...) this is a great up-tempo album with some good upbeat tracks.
Songs like 'When Your Heart Stops Beating', 'Lycanthrope' and 'No It Isn't' stand out most on the first listen. Some songs don't make as much of an impression at first, but they'll grow on you with time!
This is a great debut from Mark and Travis's new project and I'm sure they'll do very well with their next album.
Overall, this is a brilliant feel-good, upbeat cd that's got quite a few tracks that would sound great blasting from a car whilst speeding down a motorway. If you liked Blink 182's last release, you should definatley get this!!
Freshman Album October 15, 2007
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
If this were the first record for these guys, this would be a spectacular piece of music. For serious. There's a lot of promise here but not much delivery, which is terrific for new bands. Unfortunately, this group is, for all intents and purposes, Blink-182, albeit with a couple of contributory components from another band and some defining elements (Tom DeLonge and juvenile obsessions) missing, and really not eligible for such exceptions.
But, before I get carried away, I should go over the basics for the uninitiated. Categorizing +44 musically is surprisingly hard for a band that is this consistent, well-heeled, and ultimately unimpressive (three qualities which usually convene in easy genre attribution), but if I were pressed I'd say that this is as close to general "rock music" as anything. Their nearest progenitors are Blink-182 (of course - they do have 2/3 of that bands membership), and their nearest contemporaries, so far as my music collection is concerned, would be Head Automatica. Fans of modern rock would probably be comfortable here, and fans of country music and jazz would feel most out of place.
That broad categorization out of the way, let's discuss the specifics. I want to make clear that I do not in any way dislike +44. I actually kind of like the album. That's the thing, though. I kind of like it, but I don't think that I'd go out of my way to point it out to anybody that I didn't already know would be interested by virtue of their Blink pedigree. The music doesn't really go out of its way to distinguish itself, and the band has some notable problems. Specifically, they really, really, REALLY need a better, more distinctive vocalist to give them some spirit. If they had somebody like Daryl Palumbo (of the aforementioned Head Automatica - a band with their own shortcomings) at the lead, I think that would do an awful lot to elevate this group to the next level. As it stands, musically speaking, the band is solid, but unremarkable.
The word "boring" has been coined with respect to this particular record, and while I don't agree with the most popular locus for the term (I personally think tracks 1 through 6 are the strongest), it does fit the group. They sound like four really talented session musicians with no band leader. I can't fault their composition or talent, but I can fault their creativity, and that's the biggest problem I have with this record. These guys seem to have everything going for them except for that one unique hook that will get them there. It could be a new vocalist with some better range and expression (Mark Hoppus is noticeably uninteresting and pedestrian), it could be a new producer with an artistic vision (a la Dan the Automator with the excellent first Head Automatica album) - I can't say exactly what it is they need, because they could use a lot of things to help them vault that short distance from mediocre to stellar.
What all this should say is that this band isn't bad, and the three star review shouldn't indicate that. If I could give them three and a half, I would, because I'd like to emphasize that these fellas are on the good side of average on this release. What it should say, though, is that there's a lot of room for them to improve, and there isn't much to recommend When Your Heart Stops Beating to a prospective buyer, though there may not be much to malign it either. Honestly, this isn't a purchase I can offer advice with respect to. If this seems like something you'd like to try out, or if you're following up on the remnants of Blink-182, I can't fault you for buying it. It's certainly good enough to be enjoyable. I've put it on a few times and will probably play it on rare occasion in the future. If you don't feel interested, I wouldn't urge you to buy the record. I just hope that I can recommend their next effort more powerfully.
Best CD in a while November 19, 2006
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
since the break up of blink-182, there are two bands... Angels And Airwaves and (+44), Angels And Airwaves is just plain awful, (+44) showed that punk rock is still good and could be different, this album is very different from any of the blink-182 albums. The songs have more meaning and a better sound. Every song an the CD is amazing. BUY THIS CD!!!! IT"S WORTH IT!!!!!
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