Act Your Age (Home Grown album)

Act Your Age
Studio album by Home Grown
Released	June 2, 1998
Genre	Ska punk Pop punk Skate punk
Length	69:02
Label	Outpost Recordings
Producer	Clif Norrell
Home Grown chronology
That's Business (1995) Act Your Age (1998) EP Phone Home (Home Grown EP) (1999)
Singles from Act Your Age
"All That You Have/She's Anti (Promo Only)" Released: 1998 "Surfer Girl" Released: May 18, 1998 [1] "Suffer" Released: 1998

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
Los Angeles Times	** [3]
Punknews.org	[4]

Act Your Age is the second album by the rock band Home Grown, released in 1998 by Outpost Recordings. It was the band's only album for a major label. It expanded their popularity and found them moving into a pop punk and pop rock direction musically. The album's most popular tracks were a new version of "Surfer Girl," a song which had originally appeared on their debut album That's Business and "Suffer" which also appeared on Geffen sampler Everything is Beautiful. ^[5] Act Your Age would be the band's final recording with their original lineup, as guitarist Ian Cone left the band shortly after its release.

The album contains a hidden track called "Too Many Stops" on track 15 after "Reflections." The song plays at 22:59 into the track and is followed by a 1-minute clip of the band members laughing uncontrollably.

Act Your Age was Home Grown's first album to chart; reaching #24 on Billboard's Heatseekers in 1998. ^[6]

Track listing

1. "Nowhere Slow" (Lohrbach)
2. "All That You Have" (Lohrbach)
3. "She's Anti" (Tran)
4. "Surfer Girl" (Lohrbach)
5. "Last Nite Regrets" (Tran)
6. "Suffer" (Lohrbach)
7. "Your Past" (Tran)
8. "Grow Up" (Lohrbach)
9. "Piss Off" (Tran)
10. "Let Go" (Lohrbach)
11. "Bad News Blair" (Tran)
12. "Kids" (Lohrbach)
13. "Wow, She Dumb" (Tran)
14. "Envy Me" (Tran)
15. "Reflections" (Lohrbach) / "Too Many Stops"

Personnel

• John "John E. Trash" Tran – vocals, guitar, moog, keyboard
• Ian Cone – guitar, vocals
• Adam Lohrbach – vocals, bass, moog, keyboard
• Bob Herco – drums

Album information

• Recorded at Ocean Way Studios, Sound City Studios, and Louie's Clubhouse
• Mixed at Louie's Clubhouse
• Produced, engineered, and mixed by Clif Norrell
• Assistant engineers: John Sorensen, Greg Fidelman, Victor Janacua
• Mastered by Howie Weinberg at Masterdisk in New York
• Tracks 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 & 15 written by Adam Lohrbach
• Tracks 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13 & 14 written by John Tran
• Art direction by Pawn Shop Press
• Cover photo by Stephen Stickler
• Other photography by Alison Dyer

References

1. Adored, Ivana B. (May 15, 1998). "Post Modern" (PDF). Hits . 12 (589): 40. OCLC   15994494.
2. AllMusic review
3. Los Angeles Times review
4. Sorley, Jeff (November 14, 2018). "Home Grown - Act Your Age". Punknews.org. Retrieved March 24, 2021.
5. "Various - Everything Is Beautiful". Discogs. Retrieved November 18, 2015.
6. "Act Your Age - Home Grown | Awards | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved November 18, 2015.