Track Listing

1. I Want To Save You
2. Punk Rock Princess
3. I Woke Up In A Car
4. If You C Jordan
5. The Astronaut (New Album Mix)
6. Hurricane (New Album Mix)
7. Cavanaugh Park
8. Fall
9. Straw Dog
10. Good News
11. Drunk Girl
12. Not What It Seems
13. You're Gone
14. Walking By
15. Little
16. Globes & Maps

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #16955 in Music
• Released on: 2002-09-09
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .23 pounds
• Running time: 67 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
Their name might be tailor-made to bait sniffy hardcore purists, but it's the music on Leaving Through the Window--the debut full-length from So-Cal emo-popsters Something Corporate--that should really divide the punk kids eager for the latest release stamped with the Drive-Thru insignia. Touting influences like Billy Joel and Elton John alongside more traditional touchstones like New Found Glory and Jimmy Eat World and featuring, in the shape of Andrew McMahon, a lead singer more keen on pulling up a piano stool and playing an elegant recital than reeling across the stage with mike clutched in bloody fist, Something Corporate truly are the face of easy-listening emo.

Is this a bad thing? Occasionally. They tend to rely a little too much on orchestral strings when they're trying to milk every last drop of emotion out of tracks like "Cavanaugh Park", and "Punk Rock Princess" is about as soppy as this sort of music gets. But the embittered "If You See Jordan"--a song about a high-school bully that can't grow up when the prom's been and gone--and the determinedly anti-macho "Drunk Girl" offer a pretty sweet antidote to brainless frat-rock punk. Besides, Something Corporate are bucking the tedious trend of three-chord moshpit conformity and we should certainly applaud that when we see it. --Louis Pattison

CD Description
At heart, Something Corporate find themselves somewhere between the quirky, piano-driven sound of Ben Folds Five and the power pop angst of Marvellous 3 and Semisonic. The bittersweet mid-tempo "Cavanaugh Park" boasts lush, dramatic keyboards, setting a vibe that is almost at odds with the lyrics. "Punk Rock Princess" is as catchy as the song's name would suggest, while the bratty, self-proclaimed anthem "If You C Jordan" sounds like a second cousin to much contemporaneous neo-pop-punk music. Staying corporate, "Drunk Girl" opens with Boston-influenced guitar harmonies that lead to the most endearing sentiment on LEAVING THROUGH THE WINDOW. The song finds a man in a dubious situation, but virtue keeps him frombetraying his heart; not something corporate, but somethingrefreshing.

Customer Reviews

Smething Corporate = Something GOOD!
I was recommended this CD by an American friend, and although it was only delivered to my house this morning, it hasn't left my CD player all day!

I'd say Something Corporate are in the same genre as Jimmy Eat World with maybe a little Ben Folds added to the mix. The lead singer, Andrew McMahon has a very likeable voice, and I found this album to be a 'grower' i.e., after the second listen or so it had hooked me in. I tend to find these type of albums will stay in my player much longer than more instantly catchy ones.

This is a wonderful debut for such a young band, most of the members being in their late teens early twenties, and I anticipate this will be on my favourites list for some time to come.

An excellent emotional antidote to pop-punk
If you've had a bit of a pop-punk overload with the likes of Good Charlotte and Simple Plan, get this to cure your blues. I bought this album when I was in the USA over the summer and completely fell in love with it on the first listen. The lyrics are beautifully emotional, with such intricate piano playing it makes the mind boggle. From the first haunting note of I Want To Save You to the closing bars of Globes And Maps, Something Corporate will draw you under their spell and keep you mesmerised for the full hour playing time. Every single song is a musical masterpiece in its own right, but my standout tracks are first single Punk Rock Princess and iF yoU C Jordan, a tale of a guy who just can't let high school go. A gorgeous album that's the perfect soundtrack to a lazy weekend of hanging out with friends.

Entering through the CD player
Something Corporate really did a good job of this album. In much the same way as The Manic Street Preachers' "Everything Must Go", almost every song has got the potential to be released as a single.

The obvious hits include the opener "I Want to Save You" and the anthemic "Punk Rock Princess" but the long-term growers, which overtake the immediate hooky tracks, are "Drunk Girl", "Hurricane" and the fantastic "Woke up in a Car".

Things are led equally by the guitars and by the piano, which lends to an indie / rock style that has plenty of variety.

This record will keep on creeping back into your CD player.