DDD (album)

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DDD
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Studio album by
ReleasedFebruary 22, 2000
Recorded1999, Studio Tedium, Champaign, Illinois
Genre Alternative rock
Length38:01
Label spinART [1]
Producer Jonathan Pines, Poster Children
Poster Children chronology
New World Record
(1999)
DDD
(2000)
No More Songs About Sleep and Fire
(2004)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [2]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [3]
Pitchfork 7.8/10 [4]
Spin 6/10 [5]

DDD is the seventh album by American alternative rock band Poster Children, released in 2000. [6] It derives its name from the SPARS Code for a digitally recorded, mixed, and mastered album.

Contents

Critical reception

In its 4-star review, The Austin Chronicle wrote that "Rick Valentin's lyrics are sharp-edged and hard-sung as ever, he and brother Jim's guitars bouncing off each other like crossed chainsaws." [7] Spin called the album "an energetic look at life-time employment in a young person's game, coloring bemusement and revulsion with ba-ba verses and who-gives-a-damn choruses." [5]

Track listing

  1. "This Town Needs a Fire" – 2:36
  2. "Strange Attractors" – 3:30
  3. "Daisy Changed" – 3:26
  4. "Zero Stars" – 2:02
  5. "Time Share" – 2:50
  6. "Rock & Roll" – 1:27
  7. "Persimmon" – 2:15
  8. "Elf" – 2:33
  9. "The Old School and the New" – 3:52
  10. "Judge Freeball" – 2:41
  11. "Silhouette" – 3:10
  12. "Perfect Product" – 2:39
  13. "Peck N'Paw" – 5:00

Personnel

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