Box Car Racer [Explicit Version]

Rating

Album: Box Car Racer [Explicit Version]
#	Song Title		Time
1)	I Feel So Album Version	More Info...	4:31
2)	All Systems Go Album Version (Explicit)	More Info...	3:16
3)	Watch The World Album Version	More Info...	3:52
4)	Tiny Voices Album Version (Explicit)	More Info...	3:27
5)	Cat Like Thief Album Version	More Info...	4:20
6)	And I Album Version	More Info...	3:12
7)	Letters To God Album Version (Explicit)	More Info...	3:16
8)	My First Punk Song Album Version (Explicit)	More Info...	1:04
9)	Sorrow Album Version (Explicit)	More Info...	3:27
10)	There Is Album Version	More Info...	3:17
11)	The End With You Album Version	More Info...	3:11
12)	Elevator Album Version	More Info...	2:45
13)	Instrumental Album Version	More Info...	1:58

Album: Box Car Racer [Explicit Version]
#	Song Title		Time
1)	I Feel So Album Version	More Info...	4:31
2)	All Systems Go Album Version (Explicit)	More Info...	3:16
3)	Watch The World Album Version	More Info...	3:52
4)	Tiny Voices Album Version (Explicit)	More Info...	3:27
5)	Cat Like Thief Album Version	More Info...	4:20
6)	And I Album Version	More Info...	3:12
7)	Letters To God Album Version (Explicit)	More Info...	3:16
8)	My First Punk Song Album Version (Explicit)	More Info...	1:04
9)	Sorrow Album Version (Explicit)	More Info...	3:27
10)	There Is Album Version	More Info...	3:17
11)	The End With You Album Version	More Info...	3:11
12)	Elevator Album Version	More Info...	2:45
13)	Instrumental Album Version	More Info...	1:58

Performer Notes

Box Carr Racer: Thomas DeLonge (vocals, guitar); Dave Kennedy (guitar); Anthony Celestino (bass); Travis Barker (drums).
Additional personnel: Tim Armstrong (vocals, guitar, bass).
Box Car Racer: Thomas DeLonge (vocals, guitar, bass); Dave Kennedy (guitar); Roger Joseph Manning (keyboards); Travis Barker (drums).
Additional personnel: Mark Hoppus, Tim Armstrong (vocals).
Recorded at Signature Sound, San Diego, California; Larabee, West Hollywood, California; O'Henry Studios, Burbank, California.
Strictly a Blink-182 side project (featuring that band's guitarist Tom DeLonge and drummer Travis Barker), Box Car Racer doesn't stray too far from addressing the needs and concerns of the "other" band's core teen fanbase. Choosing to leave behind the toilet humor and skate-punk swagger normally associated with Blink, this outing instead goes down the road of vulnerability and insecurity that makes up the dark side of adolescence. Not surprisingly, Box Car Racer's stylistic hard-wiring features plenty of harmonies, prickly riffs, and pounding rhythms that come to the fore on the funky "And I," the hard-charging time changes of the opening "I Feel So," and the raging hardcore of "My First Punk Song."
Balancing out all this aggression are numbers where DeLonge swaps his electric guitar for an acoustic; heartfelt proclamations of love ("There Is") and the realization of life's fragility ("Letters To God"). Rounding out this self-titled debut are guest spots by Rancid's Tim Armstrong and A New Found Glory's Jordan Pundik (a chiming "Cat Like Thief"), and Blink bandmate Mark Hoppus ("Elevator"). BOX CAR RACER turns out to be an interesting visit to Blink-182's emerging serious side.

Professional Reviews

Q (6/02, p.112) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...Box Car Racer confound expectations with a very good record..."

Q (6/02, p.112) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...Box Car Racer confound expectations with a very good record..."

NME (Magazine) (5/25/02, p.32) - 7 out of 10 - "...The sensitive, socially conscious and politicised Blink-18U2....BCR attempt to bury the Blink schtick at the Joshua Tree."

NME (Magazine) (5/25/02, p.32) - 7 out of 10 - "...The sensitive, socially conscious and politicised Blink-18U2....BCR attempt to bury the Blink schtick at the Joshua Tree."