Act Your Age (Home Grown album)

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Act Your Age
Home Grown - Act Your Age cover.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedJune 2, 1998
Genre Ska punk
Pop punk
Skate punk
Length69:02
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
  1. "All That You Have/She's Anti (Promo Only)"
    Released: 1998
  2. "Surfer Girl"
    Released: 1998
  3. "Suffer"
    Released: 1998
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AbsolutePunk Favorable [1]
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Los Angeles Times ** [3]
Punknews.orgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [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.

Contents

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

Album information

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References

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  2. AllMusic review
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