Track Listing

1. Private Eye
2. Mr. Chainsaw
3. Take Lots With Alcohol
4. Stupid Kid
5. Another Innocent Girl
6. Steamer Trunk
7. You're Dead
8. Armageddon
9. I'm Dying Tomorrow
10. Bloodied Up
11. Trucks And Trains
12. Crawl

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #20433 in Music
• Released on: 2003-05-05
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Explicit Lyrics
• Dimensions: .20 pounds
• Running time: 38 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
Punk with a satisfyingly vicious snarl, From Here to Infirmary is the sound of Blink 1 82's truant-playing next-door neighbours breaking into dad's drinks cabinet and drinking it dry. Chicago's Alkaline Trio are three boozers, abusers and all-round losers that crank out the sort of perfectly deformed, hair-tearingly angstful pop-punk tunes that made Green Day's Dookie such a mainstream punk landmark. That time-honoured comedy punk album title (see also: NOFX's Punk In Drublic, Blink 182's Enema of the State and countless others) is shot through with a certain black humour, because these are all songs about hitting the gutter, and hitting it hard. The opening "Private Eye" remembers a New Year's Eve spent alone with the bottle, frontman Matt Skiba singing, "There's no reason to call, I passed out on the floor/ Smoked myself stupid and drunk my insides dry", while the fraught, anthemic emo-pop of "Take Lots with Alcohol" reads like a monologue sobbed straight from the psychiatrist's chair. --Louis Pattison

CD Description
This three-piece punk outfit comes out with all guns blazing on FROM HERE TO INFIRMARY. Throughout the album, the Alkaline Trio maintains a blazing, three-chord barrage whose stylistic pedigree runs through Green Day all the way back to first-generation punks like the Buzzcocks.
For an accurate picture of the Trio's approach, picture the hard-hitting hooks of a Blink 182 mated with intelligent lyrics (a rare enough commodity in heavy rock to begin with) that nearly reach the philosophical heights of Bad Religion--the degree of introspection presented in the Alkaline Trio's lyrics is unprecedented. But once you focus on the raging rhythms and guitarfirestorms, everything else is gravy. Put these boys down as Green Day sans the brattiness after a few college courses.

Customer Reviews

Superbly excellent, with a tremendously brilliant quality.
I bought this album having only heard Stupid Kid, which remains among my favourite tracks, and as always I was hoping that all of them would be of similar quality, but i never expected so many great songs as this album provides. The first, Private Eye, has become my distinct favourite, but its one of those albums you can just put on and listen to straight through, without having to constantly stop and select a better track. Its the kind of punk style music i like - a balance between the pop styles of blink 182 and the harder rock styles some bands adopt.
If you like decent punk music, you'll like Alkaline Trio.

This album is great!
I love Alkaline Trio, but this is the only album I have bought and its fantastic, the tracks are all really catchy and great to listen to, especially Stupid Kid, Private Eye, Another innocent girl, and well pretty much all the others as well! This album is a great album to listen to whenever you feel like it- buy it!

Superb punk rock with a darker side.
After falling in love with 'Stupid Kid' and its upbeat catchy punk pop sound, I was surprised and impressed with the rest of 'From here to Infirmary'. But don't be fooled. The album is a dark, brooding lyrical journey accompanied by super catchy melodic punk rock. The topics covered include death, depression, Chicago street life,drink, drugs and hitting rock bottom, so don't expect happy, cheery pop songs about girls and sunshine.
'Private eye' is an amazing opening track, and 'Armageddon' is a really well written song, not to mention catchy, guarranteed to stick in your head for days!
The music is tight, and Skiba's vocals are strikingly different, and a contrast to the other punk pop leaders of the moment eg. New Found Glory and Sum41.
Definitely worth getting if you like the punk rock stuff thats around at the moment, it's refreshingly different