Track Listing

1. Broken Hands
2. Kill Your Own
3. Destroy
4. Chance
5. Perfect Gift
6. Live Fast Die Ugly
7. Feed The Fire
8. This Mess
9. Better Way
10. No Pretending
11. Breathe Again

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #16981 in Music
• Released on: 2006-03-20
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.co.uk Review
On Kill Your Own, Surrey rockers Hundred Reasons set out to put further distance between themselves and their cry-baby emo peers, ratcheting up the heaviness and shelving the relationship clichés endemic to the post-hardcore genre in favour of brutal, fist-punching youth anthems that drag this genre back to its moshpit roots. "Live Fast, Die Ugly" in particular is the band’s heaviest track to date, a Queens Of The Stone Age-style rampage pock-marked with lurching stop-start potholes, vocalist Colin Doran’s voice cracking under the strain. The title track, too, is an oddity – a gnarled rock-out lent a rhythmic electro-rock feel by drummer Andy Bews’ pulsing, insistent kick-drum. There are some moments that play to Hundred Reasons’ more familiar strengths – "Destroy" and "Breathe Again" tread the same optimistic hardcore territory that made 2002’s Ideas Above Our Station such a breath of fresh air. However, the occasional heavier moment aside, it’s true that this album sounds like a band comfortable to rattle around in their niche rather than confidently break new ground. --Louis Pattison

Customer Reviews

Great Third Album
Hundred Reasons looked finished when they were unceremoniously dropped from their previous label Sony, and it looked as if one of Britain's most promising underground rock bands would never be heard from again. After Shatterproof Is Not A Challenge, to some people this wasn't an altogether bad thing.

Being a big fan of most of their previous work and their excellent immersing live performances, I was pretty happy when I heard they were finally recording a new record. And I was even happier when I bought it because, put simply, it's a blinder.

Colin and co really, really needed to make this album a step up from everything they ever did before, it needed to be more of Ideas Above Our Station and less of Shatterproof Is Not A Challenge, and that is the general direction they've moved in. It's loud, exciting and clever.

It opens up with a bang, with what I think is one of their best tracks, Broken Hands, which is meaty and bigheaded and a very strong opening track. The first single, Kill Your Own is also the title track and follows Broken Hands quite nicely in the bone-shattering riff theme. Other high points are Destroy, Feed The Fire, No Pretending, and the cautious closer Breath Again.

There's still the odd track in there that I feel could have been improved on a bit, and they include The Chance and A Better Way?, which is brutal but a bit none-directional. People have complained about the drumming being lazy but to be honest I find no fault with it, it's not brilliant but it doesn't let the album down in any way. All round, Kill Your Own is solid, and it's Hundred Reasons great third album, for fans of Icarus Line, Hell Is For Heroes and Biffy Clyro.

Revision fodder...
Having emerged in the dark hangover time of nu metal Hundred Reasons were proclaimed the great hope of Brit-rock but were promptly then dropped. Unperturbed they've found a new label and the Surrey band finally now release third album Kill Your Own.
When you're bored with American Idiot and want to relive the Nickleback experience then Destroy, This Mess and The Chance are the songs to keep you entertained. Live Fast, Die Ugly is a roaring throwback to 2001 nu metal while Feed The Fire is good anthemic rawk. They're still not as angry as they think they are and emo earnestness is never far away. They'll get many a solemn-faced undergraduate through their exams.

Rock? Sorry?
Not a bad album, though. Mildly interesting riffs (although most of them are just your average Foo Fighters fare, so that should give you an idea of just *how* interesting) and good vocals (God how it's nice to hear someone actually singing these days).

For me, the best stuff comes later, after all the boring single-fodder (and the horrible pop-punk of "Destroy") is out of the way. "Feed the Fire" and "A Better Way" have some great guitars in and add some variety before we're back to the hitting-the-same-chord-four-times-then-move-on-to-another-one-equals-a-riff stuff with "No Pretending" and "Breathe Again". "Live Fast, Die Young" starts with a great riff, but quickly becomes a standard punk song. If you like punk, then you'll be fine. I, on the other hand, hate it, so along with "Destroy" it's the album's low-point.