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Everything In Transit (Parental Advisory),Jack's Mannequin

- Everything In Transit (Parental Advisory)
- - 2,270,104 plays
  - 1,402 favs
  - 251 shares
Jack's Mannequin
Released 2005

Dark Blue
04:12
491,951 plays

The Mixed Tape
03:15
340,432 plays

Bruised
04:03
227,657 plays

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songs

- 1
- Holiday From Real
- 02:59
- 166,716 plays

- 2
- The Mixed Tape
- 03:15
- 340,432 plays

- 3
- Bruised
- 04:03
- 227,657 plays

- 4
- I'm Ready
- 03:55
- 196,306 plays

- 5
- La La Lie
- 03:55
- 172,103 plays

- 6
- Dark Blue
- 04:12
- 491,951 plays

- 7
- Miss Delaney
- 03:44
- 125,439 plays

- 8
- Kill The Messenger
- 03:24
- 160,752 plays

- 9
- Rescued
- 03:56
- 124,447 plays

- 10
- MFEO: Pt. 1 - Made For Each Other/Pt. 2 - You Can Breathe
- 08:01
- 138,409 plays

- 11
- Into The Airwaves
- 04:08
- 125,925 plays

album review

If Andrew McMahon is the Ben Folds of Something Corporate, then his side project Jack's Mannequin is his Fear of Pop, his opportunity to step out of the group and try something different. Except in McMahon's case, it isn't so much fear of pop as much as an embrace of pop, since he sheds the loud guitars and punky overtones of his main band for a sunny, unabashedly tuneful Californian pop on Jack's Mannequin's debut album, Everything in Transit. In truth, it's not all that far removed from his contributions to Something Corporate, which were also tightly written and tuneful, but it sounds truer to his artistic inclinations than either of SC's studio albums, since underneath its guise as a loose concept album about a year of turbulent relationships on Venice Beach, it's a full-blown singer/songwriter piano-pop album. More than ever, on Everything in Transit McMahon sounds like the heir to Ben Folds' wise-ass interpretation of Joe Jackson, but McMahon isn't as cynical or goofy as Folds. His humor is sardonic and low-key, plus he's more concerned with affairs of the heart. Although he relies a little bit too heavily on first-person narratives, he has a keener eye for character and behavior than his emo peers, and he's a better tunesmith, too, not just content to write hooks, but taking the time to let the music build and breathe. With producer Jim Wirt, McMahon has given Everything in Transit an appropriately colorful, even cinematic, scope and, thanks to drums provided by Tommy Lee (who proves here that he's a more versatile drummer than he ever did in Mötley Crüe), it also has strong backbone. So the album has momentum, but it's as sweetly melancholy as a fading summer, yet not nearly as transient as that, either. It really shouldn't work -- it's a conceptual power pop album, delivered by an emo songwriter, backed by an aging metalhead, and co-produced by a guy who gave Hoobastank hits -- but the result is one of the more pleasant surprises of 2005. It's good enough that it makes you hope that McMahon makes Jack's Mannequin his full-time band. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide

more albums by this artist

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- - The Glass Passenger
  - Released 2008

- - Everything In Transit (Edited)
  - Released 2005

- - The Resolution (Single)
  - Released 2008

- - The Lights And Buzz (Single)
  - Released 2005

listener reviews

- - LOVE THIS ALBUM!
  - - By savkraaa
    - 7/21/2009 00:00:50
  - This is one of my favorite albums of all time. I love Jack's Mannequin's sound and he has an amazing voice. At first i definitely didn't like the album, but after listening to it a few times it grew on me, and now i LOVE it. Every song is good.
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- - The Beauty of Loneliness
  - - By Crothos
    - 9/17/2008 03:59:59
  - Shedding his bandmates in a move I initially called "pompous and selfish", McMahon's solo debut is nothing short of beautiful. As a solo album, we get to hear a single, focused, consistent voice that creates a sense of beauty, comfort, loneliness, and heartache. The listener is easily pulled into the emotional roller-coaster of Everything in Transit, not only because it mirrors so easily our own relationships and downfalls; but because the poetic structure of the lyrics and melodies leaves an imprint on our souls. I'll never forget this album, and its impact on me.
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