Modern Minds and Pastimes

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Modern Minds and Pastimes
The Click Five Modern Minds and Pastimes.jpg
Studio album by
The Click Five
ReleasedJune 26, 2007
Recorded2006
StudioQ Division (Boston, MA)
Genre Power pop [1]
Length42:45
Label
Producer Mike Denneen
The Click Five chronology
Greetings from Imrie House
(2005)		Modern Minds and Pastimes
(2007)		 TCV
(2010)
Singles from Modern Minds and Pastimes
  1. "Jenny"
    Released: April 10, 2007
  2. "Happy Birthday"
    Released: October 2007
  3. "Empty"
    Released: October 2007
  4. "Flipside"
    Released: May 2008

Modern Minds and Pastimes is the second studio album by The Click Five. It was released on June 26, 2007. The album contains four singles "Jenny", "Happy Birthday", "Empty" and "Flipside".

Contents

It was well received in Southeast Asia although the album only reached position #136 in the US Billboard 200 albums chart.

Background

Following the release of their debut studio album, Greetings from Imrie House (2005), the group's popularity began to fade. [2] They began working on their second studio album in January 2006 and due to extensive touring, they only had "about half a record" done, pushing back its completion. [3] It was recorded at Q Division Studios in Boston. [4] In March 2007, the group announced the departure of original singer Eric Dill, [5] who left the band on November 20, 2006. [3] Dill left during pre-production for the album and pursued a solo career following his exit from the band. [6] Bassist Ethan Mentzer spoke about his departure stating, "We either had to deal with this or lose what we'd established. And the four of us really wanted to keep making music together." [6]

Dill later revealed that he left the group after expressing an interest in acting, following shooting for their film, Taking Five. He also left the band due to having musical differences with the other members and stated that they "resisted working with me on song writing." However, Mentzer claimed that they were writing the songs and Dill wasn't. [3] They began searching for a new lead vocalist at Berklee College of Music and did multiple rounds of auditions, before they were recommended Hillside Manor singer Kyle Patrick, [3] who was suggested to them by music-business professor Jeff Dorenfeld, a friend of the band's manager Wayne Sharp. [6] After checking his MySpace page, the group called Patrick confirming his role with the band. [7]

Composition

Writing out 70 songs, the group narrowed down to 12 tracks for the album. According to Mentzer, the band had written some songs for Modern Minds and Pastimes before their first album was even completed. [3] Mentzer said that the band wrote more personal and autobiographical lyrics and said the album had "more depth and maturity." [3] The opening track "Flipside" and "Jenny" contain influences of a post-grunge and fuzz-rock sound, to the liking of Weezer, while "Happy Birthday" features a pop metal sound. [6] Kyle Patrick co-wrote "Empty" before joining the band. [8] The fourth track "Addicted to Me" features a lot of synthesizers and draws influences from The Romantics and Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, while the seventh track "Headlight Disco" is described as disco. [3] According to keyboardist Ben Romans, the group wrote "Headlight Disco" to have more synthesizers than guitars, experimenting with that type of sound. [9]

Promotion

The album's lead single "Jenny", was released on April 10, 2007. [10] Before the album's release, the band embarked on a mid-May tour to support its upcoming release. [11] The album was officially released on June 26, 2007. [12] A music video for "Jenny" was released on July 3, 2007, and was directed by the Aggressive. [13] The group embarked on a tour with Hilary Duff from August to September 2007, in support of the album. [14] "Happy Birthday" and "Empty" were both released as singles in October 2007, in Thailand and the Philippines. [15] In the spring of 2008, the band headlined their Modern Minds and Great Times World Tour. [16] "Flipside" was released as the fourth and final single in May 2008. [16]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [4]
Entertainment Weekly B- [17]
IGN 6.8/10 [1]
PopMatters Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [18]

The album was met with mixed reviews from music critics. Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic stated "the Click Five replaced their retro-rock leanings with retro-new wave flair -- a shameless attempt to follow fashion, but one that should be expected, even embraced, by a band that has nothing more than dreams of big hits in mind. If only the music on this second album, Modern Minds and Pastimes, were as big, tasteless and gaudy as the Click Five's career machinations! Part of the problem is that substituting the Killers for the Strokes means that the band relies too much on pumping wannabe anthems and layers of tongue-in-cheek retro-synths, which give the album a bit of a chilly distanced feel at odds with music designed to be teen trash, but also to be the group's strengths." [4] Entertainment Weekly felt that the album "packs maximum velocity but not a lot of punch," finding the lovelorn lyrics "banal at best." [17] Chad Grischow of IGN described the album as "an unfortunately uneven listen with enough catchy bubblegum pop to make it worth a listen, but not worth keeping the entire album on your iPod for long." [1]

Colin McGuire of PopMatters remarked, "the problem that runs rampant throughout the Click Five’s most recent disaster: insincerity. Songs like 'When I'm Gone' and 'The Reason Why' simply feel incredibly disingenuous. New lead singer Kyle Patrick's predictable voice never seems to present any of his new band's words with any type of consequential emotion or believability. And while '[When I'm] Gone' is a flat-out lame attempt at 'rocking', '[The Reason] Why' is nothing more than another manufactured boy-right-out-of-his-teens kind of likes girl-probably-still-in-her-teens enough to claim he is in love tune. And none of it seems honest." [18]

Commercial performance

Modern Minds and Pastimes debuted at number 136 on the US Billboard 200. As of March 2009, the album sold 50,000 copies in the United States. [2] The singles "Jenny", "Empty" and "Happy Birthday" reached number one on the Singapore 987FM Top 20 countdown. [19]

Track listing

Standard edition
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Flipside"Ben Romans, Kristian Lundin, Carl Falk3:07
2."Jenny"Romans, Chris Braide3:22
3."Happy Birthday"Romans, Braide3:29
4."Addicted to Me"Romans, Ethan Mentzer4:08
5."I'm Getting Over You"Romans, Mentzer, Braide3:20
6."When I'm Gone"Romans, Mentzer2:59
7."Headlight Disco"Romans, Mentzer3:41
8."The Reason Why"Romans, Nate Campany3:40
9."All I Need Is You"Romans, Mentzer, Campany3:22
10."Long Way to Go"Mentzer3:43
11."Mary Jane"Romans, Mentzer, Andreas Carlsson, Lisa Greene3:50
12."Empty"Romans, Kyle Patrick4:01
Total length:42:45
Japanese edition [20]
No.TitleLength
13."Summertime"2:38
14."Jenny" (acoustic version)3:18
15."Empty" (acoustic version)4:07
Total length:52:48
Tour edition and iTunes deluxe edition [21]
No.TitleLength
13."Summertime"2:38
14."So It Goes"2:33
15."American Royalty"2:51
16."Long Way to Go" (acoustic version)3:43
17."Mary Jane" (acoustic version)3:52
18."The Reason Why" (acoustic version)3:39
Total length:62:01
Tour edition DVD (CD only) [22]
No.TitleLength
1."Jenny" (karaoke music video) 
2."Behind the Band Part 1" 
3."Happy Birthday" (karaoke music video) 
4."Behind the Band Part 2" 
5."Empty" (karaoke music video) 
6."Behind the Band Part 3" 
7."Mary Jane" (promo version) 
8."Behind the Band Part 4" 
9."Jenny" (Acoustic Sessions) 
10."Behind the Band Part 5" 
11."Long Way to Go" (Acoustic Sessions) 
12."Mary Jane" (Acoustic Sessions) 
13."Empty" (live @ MOS Singapore) 
14."Headlight Disco" (live @ MOS Singapore) 

Personnel

Credits for adapted from album's liner notes. [23]

Charts

Chart performance for Modern Minds and Pastimes
Chart (2007)Peak
position
US Billboard 200 [24] 136

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