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The Promise Ring
Released 1999

Happiness Is All The Rage
02:55
379 plays

Emergency! Emergency!
02:56
276 plays

Jersey Shore
02:39
237 plays

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- 1
- Happiness Is All The Rage
- 02:55
- 379 plays

- 2
- Emergency! Emergency!
- 02:56
- 276 plays

- 3
- The Deep South
- 03:42
- 229 plays

- 4
- Happy Hour
- 03:05
- 178 plays

- 5
- Things Just Getting Good
- 04:45
- 195 plays

- 6
- Living Around
- 04:05
- 174 plays

- 7
- Jersey Shore
- 02:39
- 237 plays

- 8
- Skips A Beat (Over You)
- 02:01
- 206 plays

- 9
- Arms And Danger
- 03:23
- 166 plays

- 10
- All Of My Everythings
- 05:35
- 172 plays

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album review

Unfortunately, you will never see the Promise Ring the way they were in the days of Thirty Degrees Everywhere, but you can at least appreciate the good parts of what they have become. Their emotionally tense and sentimental edge has pretty much entirely disappeared; everything is happy, bouncy, and catchy as hell, which isn't always a bad thing. This excessively poppy direction that the Promise Ring boys take throughout this entire record was heavily hinted at on their three-song EP Boys & Girls. Perhaps one of the more upsetting things about this album is that the lyrics have lost that classic Promise Ring feel -- they actually make clear sense a lot of the time. At times, the music just gets so poppy that it is sickening, such as in the sappy "bop bop bop" background vocals on "Skips a Beat (Over You)," and the references to the band members' names in an otherwise fairly decent song "Things Just Getting Good." Although three-fourths of the album is pretty much bad pop songs, it somehow grows on you, as those Promise Ring kids have the uncanny ability to do. ~ Blake Butler, All Music Guide