Track Listing

1. Ripper
2. Pretty Handsome Awkward
3. Bird And The Worm
4. Earthquake
5. Hospital
6. Paralyzed
7. With Me Tonight
8. Wake The Dead
9. Find A Way
10. Liar Liar (Burn In Hell)
11. Smother Me

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #14087 in Music
• Released on: 2007-05-21
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Explicit Lyrics
• Dimensions: 1.00 pounds

CD Description
Utah post-hardcore quartet follow up recent live offering 'Berth' with this, their third studio album. Stepping back from the punk 'n' roll influences they embraced on 2004's 'In Love And Death', they have managed to combine the urgency and aggression of the "screamo" style they helped to pioneer on their self-titled debut with a newfound sense of melody, creating catchy, singalong anthems that still shudder with brute power. Produced once again by John Feldmann (Good Charlotte), it includes the single 'The Bird And The Worm'.

Customer Reviews

The Used find time to experiment and excel doing so.
I'd never really given The Used the time of day. I'd heard their previous efforts and was relatively unimpressed, it just sounded like generic punk pop with a little bit of screaming.

However, this album has made me think again because this really is The Used branching out and distancing themselves from their peers while still being as accesible by the older fans.

Find A Way is an immediate standout track, with an intro of a medley of odd sounds while first single, The Bird And The Worm is an instant classic with the kind of experimentation found on 'Thnks Fr Th Mmrs' by Fall Out Boy with strings, ominous backing vocals and creaking doors.

However, there are songs that sound straightaway like The Used old fans will know; Pretty Handsome Awkward and Wake The Dead take pop punk and turn it on it's head with heavier guitars and fantastic pop choruses.

To summarise, if you like pop punk with an edge but with it's fair share of individuality then you need this album.

Truly Brilliant!
The third album by The Used is truly brilliant! They are as good as ever and have even managed to improve since their last album. I got it as soon as it came out and have not stopped listening to it since.

The Utah quartet still manage to retain the the hard rock/emo feel but mix it with catchy tunes and great lyrics. The album moves from ripping screamo guitar riffs, to instrumental ballad seamlessly and the lyrics are also very good.

The album starts off with the "The Ripper" which is the worst song on it. But even so it's still a good song when not compared to their other stuff. From then on it alternates between pop/rock tunes and hard rock/screamo but thist does not make the album sound broken up in anyway. All the songs sound very genuine and are sung really well.

It does not sound like some garage mix but a very well made studio album. Overall brilliant album that will not become tiresome after 4 hearings.

Well worth buying.

the third album gets the thumbs up
The used's third album was according to vocalist bert mccracken prior to this going to be their heaviest album to date and contain lots of screaming and then he contradicted himself by stating that the band wanted to move away from the screamo genre and make a hard rock album,strange confusion there readers,nevertheless what you get here with 'lies for the liars' is an album that is great,some screaming remains,ballads remain and uptempo pop rock tracks along with hard hitting riffs all make up this album and with the exception of two tracks its a sure fire winner.
I may as well single out the two poor tracks and chance my arm to criticism from other readers,the tracks 'earthquake' and album closer 'smother me' are very middle of the road average,too sickly sweet in a way and not that exciting,they aint the worst tracks in the world but the used have wrote a lot better in their time so i aint gonna pretend that they are great.
Despite that you have nine tracks that have many styles and genres,this isnt an overly heavy album but it can be quite dark,look no further than the brilliant 'wake the dead' which is filled with creepy synths and atmosphere and rocks hard but then descends into pink floyds 'dark side of the moon' territory,a great track as are the remaining ones as well,probably not the used's best work but worth a listen all the same.Nearly vital.