Track Listing

1. The Hell Song
2. Over My Head (Better Off Dead)
3. My Direction
4. Still Waiting
5. A.N.I.C.
6. No Brains
7. All Messed Up
8. Mr. Amsterdam
9. Thanks For Nothing
10. Hyper-Insomnia-Para-Condrioid
11. Billy Spleen
12. Hooch
13. Reign In Pain (Heavy Metal Jamboree)
14. WWVII Part II

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #29419 in Music
• Released on: 2002-11-25
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Explicit Lyrics
• Dimensions: .23 pounds
• Running time: 39 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
Sum 41's mega-hit All Killer No Filler lifted riffs from Motley Crue and the Beastie Boys to make a formidably dumb racket, but Does This Look Infected, the follow-up, finds the Canadian quartet reining in its spiky-haired insolence. Drawing musical inspiration from toothy metal icons Iron Maiden and Def Leppard, Does This Look Infected? is not only meatier than its predecessor, but songs such as "Still Waiting", with its opening refrain of "So am I still waiting, for this world to stop hating," and "Yesterday.com", reveal social consciousness creeping in. The album is not completely deprived of the goofy, booger-gobbling skate punk that launched the band, but it provides convincing evidence that the News has taken over CITV as Sum 41's preferred tour-bus viewing. --Aidin Vaziri

CD Description
'Does This Look Infected' is the follow up to Sum 41's 2001debut album 'All Killer No Filler'. The album is a heavier take on their usual fusion of chart friendly punk-pop and rap. It includes the single 'Still Waiting'.

Customer Reviews

The best Sum 41 album to ever roam the earth!
This album is by far the best album that Sum 41 have made. All Killer No Filer was defintely a massive hit and of course that is still a GREAT album but Does This Look Infected? is even better than I have ever heard. I went to go and see Sum 41 at Wembley, London and after seeing them, I have definitely fallen in love with this album! I think that Sum 41 have tried and succeded in becoming more hardcore than ever before. The first 8 songs and the song 'Hooch' are just faboulous! My favourite song on this album has to be (even though it was hard to choose) either The Hell Song or Over My Head.

Another good thing about this album is that there is hardly any swearing, which makes a pleasent change from the usual hardcore/punk band. I think that there is the odd word beginning with S and ending in T. I don't really think that the cover of the album (the face) is appropriate for this album though. I have spoken to some friends, and they all think that the cover of the album should be something a bit different.

I quote from one of the songs 'so am I still waiting?'. You don't need to wait to think about buying this album, all hardcore/punk fans or anybody else should buy this album!

Sum 41's best album so far
Sum 41 last year were in with the punk-pop mix of bands out at the time with others such as New Found Glory, Blink 182 and Fenix TX.
And basically with songs such as 'Fat Lip' and 'In Too Deep', they were a pop-punk band.

Until now...

Sum 41 have pulled up their sleeves and made one of the most catchiest and infectious punk-rock albums of the year.
It starts off with the sad 'The Hell Song', due to be their next single, that is a great starter for the album, leading you straight into the catchy chorus and infectious riffs of the album.
Another very good song in 'Over My Head (Better Off Dead)' with an unknown new "heavy" sound to the band, and again with a very catchy chorus included("now i'm in over my head, with something i said, completely misread, i'm better off dead, but now i can't see, i think you can't be, this hypocrisy is beginning to get to me").
'Still Waiting', there first single from the album, is another fine song, with another catchy melody.
The song refers to the ongoing problems in the world with the line "so am i still waiting for this world, to stop hating?", showing how the band can move on from the past songs about girls and skateboarding, to songs about world affairs and songs about losing a friend in the album opener 'The Hell Song'.
Like the song on 'All Killer, No Filler' called 'Never Wake Up' which is a fun 30-second song, the new album follows in the same fashion with 'A.N.I.C.' which is a fun, foul mouth, shout-out song aimed at someone they call an a**h***.
'No Brains' despite the weird title, is a strong song about giving up on a relationship with a good chorus in: "Goodbye, I've had enough frustration, I won't get stuck, This dead end situation, It's just not worth my time, But waiting so frustrating".
'Thanks For Nothing' is my favourite song on the album, with its crunching sound, great sound and again another amazingly catchy chorus.
Its also another dark song, with sad lyrics, which near the end of the song Deryck Whibley (frontman) just simply sings "Thanks For Nothing..." and really reflects the mood of the song.
The pecuilar named 'Hyper-Insomnia-Para-Condroid' is suprisingly very good, despite its title.
Its very catchy with its "and it goes on and on..." chorus, that breaks into another chorus during the song where Whibley sings "I'm wearing thin, I just guess these walls they keep caving in, I've gone too far, Where's my mind?, Why can't I stop fear this paranoia?".
Other songs I haven't mentioned are still very good, but i just wanted to highlight the best ones in my review, so don't get worried and think the other one's are rubbish or something, because they're all very good.

So overall, if you like any type of rock music, especially punk-rock/pop-punk you'll love this, it really is a class ahead of most of the bands in their genre at the moment.

Best of the lot
Sum 41's first album, Half Hour of Power, was not very good, which is why nobody had heard of them back then. All Killer, No Filler was a big improvement but was still quite childish and, despite its title, had too many songs that just frankly weren't good enough. This new album however is a whole lot better. From the music, which is now more metally and mature and has obvious influences from bands such as Metallica and Iron Maiden, to the lyrics which are more interesting and socially aware, this album is a big step in proving that the band can actually play some proper rock music!

Standout tracks are opener "The Hell Song" (incredibly catchy tune), single "Still Waiting" and both of the superb metal-style bonus tracks "Reign in Pain" (cheesy and amusing but still great) and "WWVII Part II" (surprisingly mature).