sum 41 - "what we're all about"
"fat lip" was a beautiful thing, i still haven't got bored of it cuz it has so many parts and so much audible excitement in playing fun rock music and rhyming like the beastie boys and really, like i've probably said before, it's one of many nu metal songs that starts with an awesomely hooky riff to build giddy anticipation before it hits you with the crunch (dance producers should be taking note of sum 41 and linkin park!). "in too deep" had a much simpler structure and a grunge tempo but also a high-grade chorus driven by those excellently snotty vocals of the scrunch-faced dude (plus a really good guitar solo that i might only consider good because of the video where guitar-dude rises from the water in a swimming pool while "delivering"- yeah!).

and now there's "what we're all about", which is very disappointing: terrible sequenced drums probably aiming for licensed to ill punch and a lazy 5ive-like chorus (5ive were alright at the time but let's just admit they almost always had shit choruses!) are the things that stick out immediately. there's still some of the playful mashing together of the last fifteen years of attitude-rock in the very short thrash bits (best thing about sum 41 is they are trying to fit in not only the biggies like grunge and rap-rock but also seemingly every minor sub-genre as well!), but it can't save this from ruining my intangible feeling about the band. so now they suck!