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With their third album, Atomic, looks more to perfect their brand of pop/punk than branching out into different musical genres. "Our goal was really not to change it much — the whole 'If it ain't broke, don't fix it' mentality," lead singer A. Jay Popoff. The band pretty much succeeds with Atomic as it’s more of a continuation of Lit’s second album, the platinum plus A Place in the Sun, than a new album.

The album starts out with static, some crowd noises and guitar feedback of "Something to Someone" before drummer Allen Shellenberger’s pounding drum beat comes in and starts smashing it all to pieces. Popoff’s voice surfaces to settle things down as he sings about what else? How he wants to be someone that would "make his mother proud."

The Cars-ish "The Last Time Again" kicks off with bleeping new age type guitar squeals. The song lyrically is a kind of sequel to the bands monster single "My Own Worst Enemy." The song picks up where "Enemy" left off talking about the morning after and how you wish you wouldn’t have done that and this time it’s the last time. At about the two minute mark the track begins to sound like something you would expect from Weezer before the band abandons it and goes back to the same old chugging guitar chords.

"Addicted" is an Elvis Costello-esque rocker that features the chorus, "I'm so addicted to you/ And you're such a dick to me." It covers the same area that "Miserable" did on the last album, telling how the main character is addicted to this girl, but she steps all over him, but he kind of digs it anyway. The song also allows guitarist Jeremy Popoff, A. Jay’s brother, to show off his guitar chops a little. The lead off single "Lipstick and Bruises" is a straight ahead rocker that is pretty catchy. The video which features "Mullet-ron", a giant robot that gives unsuspecting concertgoers mullets, is already in heavy rotation on MTV. A. Jay describes the track as a snapshot of success in the rock arena-a mixture of pleasure and pain. "You wake up some mornings and you feel like you’re covered in Lipstick and Bruises,’ he says. "It was going great and everybody was patting you on the back, and at the same time people were tugging at you in different directions and stretching you thin."

"Everything’s Cool" is a song about what Lit seems to know bests: alcohol and girls. The track would have been a great summer song and been all over the radio had this album not been released in mid Oct. "Happy in the Meantime" is an interesting move for the band with it’s acoustic guitars. "It's really how it was written with Jeremy and I and a friend getting together with acoustic guitars," A. Jay Popoff said (the friend here being former front man of Marvelous 3 Butch Walker). "We wrote it for the whole band to play, but in pre-production producer Don Gilmore wanted to hear the lyrics and the melody really clear, so we turned everything down." The song also features strings by David Campbell, Beck's dad. "Sunny Weather" is another song with a summer feel to it and talks about losing a girl, like most songs on this disc, but not really caring all that much about it.

"Next Time Around" is one of the few "love" songs and talks about past mistakes. With one of the more powerful riffs, this song makes the album just totally show Lit's versatility with mixing pop and rock into one big bag. "Slip" is the album's love ballad, that sounds a lot like Bon Jovi’s "Always." "She Comes" is a collaboration with producer Glen Ballard (Alanis Morissette, No Doubt, Dave Matthews Band) and sounds like something you would expect from him: catchy and overproduced. "Over My Head" is also a Ballard collaboration, that features Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler singing background vocals. The song was also featured in the soundtrack to "Titan A.E."

The album is very catchy a lot like A Place In The Sun. If you want a CD you can sing along to about drinking and getting dumped then this one is a good choice. However if your looking for something that will blow you away maybe you should take a pass on this disc.


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"Our goal was really not to change it much — the whole 'If it ain't broke, don't fix it' mentality," lead singer A. Jay Popoff. The band pretty much succeeds with Atomic as it’s more of a continuation of Lit’s second album, the platinum plus A Place in the Sun, than a new album. The album starts out with static, some crowd noises and guitar feedback of "Something to Someone" before drummer Allen Shellenberger’s pounding drum beat comes in and starts smashing it all to pieces. Popoff’s voice surfaces to settle things down as he sings about what else? How he wants to be someone that would "make his mother proud." The Cars-ish "The Last Time Again" kicks off with bleeping new age type guitar squeals. The song lyrically is a kind of sequel to the bands monster single "My Own Worst Enemy." The song picks up where "Enemy" left off talking about the morning after and how you wish you wouldn’t have done that and this time it’s the last time. At about the two minute mark the track begins to sound like something you would expect from Weezer before the band abandons it and goes back to the same old chugging guitar chords. "Addicted" is an Elvis Costello-esque rocker that features the chorus, "I'm so addicted to you/ And you're such a dick to me." It covers the same area that "Miserable" did on the last album, telling how the main character is addicted to this girl, but she steps all over him, but he kind of digs it anyway. The song also allows guitarist Jeremy Popoff, A. Jay’s brother, to show off his guitar chops a little. The lead off single "Lipstick and Bruises" is a straight ahead rocker that is pretty catchy. The video which features "Mullet-ron", a giant robot that gives unsuspecting concertgoers mullets, is already in heavy rotation on MTV. A. Jay describes the track as a snapshot of success in the rock arena-a mixture of pleasure and pain. "You wake up some mornings and you feel like you’re covered in Lipstick and Bruises,’ he says. "It was going great and everybody was patting you on the back, and at the same time people were tugging at you in different directions and stretching you thin." "Everything’s Cool" is a song about what Lit seems to know bests: alcohol and girls. The track would have been a great summer song and been all over the radio had this album not been released in mid Oct. "Happy in the Meantime" is an interesting move for the band with it’s acoustic guitars. "It's really how it was written with Jeremy and I and a friend getting together with acoustic guitars," A. Jay Popoff said (the friend here being former front man of Marvelous 3 Butch Walker). "We wrote it for the whole band to play, but in pre-production producer Don Gilmore wanted to hear the lyrics and the melody really clear, so we turned everything down." The song also features strings by David Campbell, Beck's dad. "Sunny Weather" is another song with a summer feel to it and talks about losing a girl, like most songs on this disc, but not really caring all that much about it. "Next Time Around" is one of the few "love" songs and talks about past mistakes. With one of the more powerful riffs, this song makes the album just totally show Lit's versatility with mixing pop and rock into one big bag. "Slip" is the album's love ballad, that sounds a lot like Bon Jovi’s "Always." "She Comes" is a collaboration with producer Glen Ballard (Alanis Morissette, No Doubt, Dave Matthews Band) and sounds like something you would expect from him: catchy and overproduced. "Over My Head" is also a Ballard collaboration, that features Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler singing background vocals. The song was also featured in the soundtrack to "Titan A.E." The album is very catchy a lot like A Place In The Sun. If you want a CD you can sing along to about drinking and getting dumped then this one is a good choice. However if your looking for something that will blow you away maybe you should take a pass on this disc.