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Underclass Hero
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Mixed or average reviews - based on 12 Critic Reviews What's this?

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7.1

Generally favorable reviews- based on 110 Ratings

  • Summary: The punk pop band releases its fifth studio album.

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With Me
I don't want this moment to ever end Where everything's nothing without you I'd wait here forever just to, to see you smile 'Cause it's true, I am... See the rest of the song lyrics
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Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 12
  3. Negative: 2 out of 12
  1. The A.V. Club
    83
    The band's smartest and most mature-sounding album yet.
  2. Billboard
    80
    Its growth feels genuine and, unlike Sum 41's punk peers, its musical maturation doesn't come at the expense of that all-important snotty 'tude.
  3. Entertainment Weekly
    75
    Much of Hero is bogged down by piano, strings, even lyrics in French. [27 Jul 2007, p. 65]
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  4. NOW Magazine
    40
    How poignantly they express their inarticulate messages through Blink-182 rip-offs and recycled versions of their own material.
  5. AllMusic
    40
    Underclass Hero is ingratiating enough as background music—it's hooky enough to have momentum but not enough to linger in the memory—but they've never sounded quite so toothless and it's all down to this increased ambition.
  6. Rolling Stone
    40
    Melodrama drags down several cuts, including the absentee-dad lament "Dear Father," and in some form or another, you've heard all these songs before.
  7. Sputnikmusic
    20
    Underclass Hero tries its best to be profound and musically challenging, however its only success is found, without exception, in the tracks which drop the pretense entirely and return to the formula which made the group popular to begin with.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 18 out of 28
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 28
  3. Negative: 7 out of 28
  1. EthanF
    Jul 27, 2007
    10
    I loved this album, all the songs are great! I've been listening to this album a lot. I would recommend this album to others.
  2. MarshallM.
    Sep 1, 2007
    10
    I think this album is their best one, though I don't think it will be as great in sales to the other albums, the music is great but I I think this album is their best one, though I don't think it will be as great in sales to the other albums, the music is great but I agree with the childish Bush bashing. To me it's not Bush bashing that made them who they are, they should of wrote their own normal style besides childish things like that. But in all I thinks it's their best album!… Expand
  4. RossS.
    Feb 7, 2008
    10
    Its Sum 41 They always rock their the best band!!!!!
  5. AndrewV
    Jul 26, 2007
    8
    Very good disc, they've gone back to their punk roots but without the snotty vibe that was prevalent in All killer It would have been Very good disc, they've gone back to their punk roots but without the snotty vibe that was prevalent in All killer It would have been nice to have 1 metal-influenced song, though the riffs near the end of "King of Contradiction" come close. All in all I love every track (took a little more time to get used to Ma Poubelle) and have been listening non-stop… Expand
  6. SuleimanM
    Jul 26, 2007
    7
    Being a big Sum 41 fan, I like it, but it has nothing on chuck. A few songs sound the same, and are reminiscent of Blink and Green Day. Being a big Sum 41 fan, I like it, but it has nothing on chuck. A few songs sound the same, and are reminiscent of Blink and Green Day. Overall, good album, but Chuck's better.… Expand
  7. BunnyRabbit
    Jul 25, 2007
    4
    Blah. Very bland, lacking the power of punk and the pizazz of pop. If it were a meal, it would be meatloaf.
  8. EC
    Aug 14, 2007
    0
    People have realized that this "style" of music is cookie cutter garbage, so it takes guts to release an album like this and put up with bad People have realized that this "style" of music is cookie cutter garbage, so it takes guts to release an album like this and put up with bad sales and vicious critics. It still sucks, though.… Expand

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