Act Your Age | ||||
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Released | June 2, 1998 | |||
Genre | Ska punk Pop punk Skate punk | |||
Length | 69:02 | |||
Label | Outpost Recordings | |||
Producer | Clif Norrell | |||
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Singles from Act Your Age | ||||
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Source | Rating |
AbsolutePunk | Favorable [1] |
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Los Angeles Times | ** [3] |
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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]
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