Army of Anyone (album)
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Army of Anyone was the debut and lone album
by Army of Anyone
, an American
rock band featuring Richard Patrick
of Filter
, the DeLeo brothers from Stone Temple Pilots
(Robert
and Dean
), and David Lee Roth
's former drummer, Ray Luzier
of KoRn
. The album was released on November 14, 2006 in America, December 4, 2006 in the UK
. It was produced by Bob Ezrin
(Pink Floyd
, Kiss
, Alice Cooper
) and mixed by Ken Andrews
. Despite largely positive reviews, Army of Anyone was considered a commercial disappointment (given the previous success of Stone Temple Pilots and Filter), debuting at #56 on the Billboard Top 200
. According to Nielsen SoundScan
, the album has sold 88,000 copies as of April 2010.
's fourth album
. However, after recording the song at a home studio, Richard Patrick
and the DeLeo brothers decided to halt Filter and form their own group, Army of Anyone.
"Goodbye" would be the album's lead single
. It was performed on Late Night with Conan O'Brien
on November 20, 2006 and Last Call with Carson Daly
on November 23. "Goodbye" received considerable radio play, ultimately reaching #3 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. A music video
was also produced for the track. The follow-up single, "Father Figure," also received radio play but did not match the same success as its predecessor. It was performed on the July 5, 2007 edition of The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
.
The iTunes
bonus track "Used to Know Her" was a downloadable mp3
on the band's official website prior to the album's release. It was later removed from the website. The iTunes version cuts out abruptly at the 2 minute 59 seconds mark. Army of Anyone has since reposted it for download on their official website.http://www.armyofanyone.com/promo/audio/free/aoa_Used_to_Know_Her.mp3
The song "It Doesn't Seem to Matter" is featured in the 2007 video game Burnout Dominator.
The band had mentioned that they had worked on up to thirty songs for the album, however, only thirteen have ever surfaced, the eleven standard songs, and the 2 b-sides "Used to Know Her" and "Good Time to Loosen".
proclaimed, "What looks on paper like a gene-splice supergroup
, Audioslave
part deux, sounds much better than that on this debut." He acknowledged the easily identified style of STP's former guitarists and cited Patrick as "a less idiosyncratic singer than STP's Scott Weiland
, cleaner in tone, more on the note."
Jo-Ann Greene of Allmusic described the album as boasting "sharply written numbers filled with dynamics, musical nuances, and a big sound courtesy of producer Bob Ezrin
." She satisfyingly closed by noting, "With its mixtures of moods, subtle use of genre-shifting, and powerhouse guitars, Army of Anyone breaks down the rock barriers, and fans should be joining up by the droves."
The album received an overall positive review from Marc Weingarten of Entertainment Weekly
as well. Citing the group's reversion to '90s rock, he elaborated, "There's a place for this band in 2006. . . It's all a bit derivative, but the DeLeo brothers' melodic twists and turns prevent the songs from settling into a tired groove."
B-sides
Bonus tracks
Studio album
A studio album is an album made up of tracks recorded in the controlled environment of a recording studio. A studio album contains newly written and recorded or previously unreleased or remixed material, distinguishing itself from a compilation or reissue album of previously recorded material, or...
by Army of Anyone
Army of Anyone
Army of Anyone was a supergroup formed by Filter frontman Richard Patrick with two of the then-former members of rock band Stone Temple Pilots. In addition to Patrick on vocals, the band featured Dean DeLeo and Robert DeLeo on guitars and bass, respectively, and Ray Luzier on drums...
, an American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
rock band featuring Richard Patrick
Richard Patrick
Richard Patrick is an American rock musician. He is the frontman for the band Filter, a founding member of the supergroup Army of Anyone, and has served as a touring guitarist for Nine Inch Nails....
of Filter
Filter (band)
Filter is a rock group formed in 1993 in Cleveland by singer Richard Patrick and guitarist/programmer Brian Liesegang. Filter has released five studio albums, the most recent being The Trouble with Angels, which was released on August 17, 2010....
, the DeLeo brothers from Stone Temple Pilots
Stone Temple Pilots
Stone Temple Pilots is an American rock band from San Diego, California that consists of Scott Weiland , brothers Robert DeLeo and Dean DeLeo , and Eric Kretz ....
(Robert
Robert DeLeo
Robert Emile DeLeo is an American bass player, songwriter, and harmony vocalist for the rock band Stone Temple Pilots. He has also played in Talk Show and Army of Anyone...
and Dean
Dean DeLeo
Dean DeLeo is an American guitarist for the rock band Stone Temple Pilots.He is also known for his role in the short-lived bands Talk Show and Army of Anyone, which featured his younger brother Robert DeLeo, Filter frontman Richard Patrick, and session drummer Ray Luzier...
), and David Lee Roth
David Lee Roth
David Lee Roth is an American rock vocalist, songwriter, actor, author, and former radio personality. Roth was ranked nineteenth by Hit Parader on their list of the 100 Greatest Heavy Metal Singers of All Time....
's former drummer, Ray Luzier
Ray Luzier
Raymond Lee "Ray" Luzier is an American drummer. He is currently the drummer of the band Korn, becoming a full-time member of the band in April 2009.-Life and career:...
of KoRn
Korn
Korn is an American nu metal band from Bakersfield, California, formed in 1993. The current band line up includes four members: Jonathan Davis, James "Munky" Shaffer, Reginald "Fieldy" Arvizu, and Ray Luzier. The band was formed as an expansion of L.A.P.D.The band released their first demo album,...
. The album was released on November 14, 2006 in America, December 4, 2006 in the UK
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
. It was produced by Bob Ezrin
Bob Ezrin
Robert Alan "Bob" Ezrin is a Canadian music producer and keyboardist, known for his work with artists including Alice Cooper, Kiss and Pink Floyd. He was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 2004.-Biography:...
(Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd were an English rock band that achieved worldwide success with their progressive and psychedelic rock music. Their work is marked by the use of philosophical lyrics, sonic experimentation, innovative album art, and elaborate live shows. Pink Floyd are one of the most commercially...
, Kiss
KISS (band)
Kiss is an American rock band formed in New York City in January 1973. Well-known for its members' face paint and flamboyant stage outfits, the group rose to prominence in the mid to late 1970s on the basis of their elaborate live performances, which featured fire breathing, blood spitting,...
, Alice Cooper
Alice Cooper
Alice Cooper is an American rock singer, songwriter and musician whose career spans more than four decades...
) and mixed by Ken Andrews
Ken Andrews
Ken Andrews is an American musician and producer, based out of Los Angeles, California.Andrews was born in Seattle, Washington, and attended film school in Los Angeles before his band Failure received a record deal from Slash Records.He was the co-founder, lead vocalist, guitarist, and...
. Despite largely positive reviews, Army of Anyone was considered a commercial disappointment (given the previous success of Stone Temple Pilots and Filter), debuting at #56 on the Billboard Top 200
Billboard 200
The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...
. According to Nielsen SoundScan
Nielsen SoundScan
Nielsen SoundScan is an information and sales tracking system created by Mike Fine and Mike Shalett. Soundscan is the official method of tracking sales of music and music video products throughout the United States and Canada...
, the album has sold 88,000 copies as of April 2010.
Song information
"A Better Place" was the first song written by the band and was originally composed for FilterFilter (band)
Filter is a rock group formed in 1993 in Cleveland by singer Richard Patrick and guitarist/programmer Brian Liesegang. Filter has released five studio albums, the most recent being The Trouble with Angels, which was released on August 17, 2010....
's fourth album
Anthems for the Damned
-Bonus tracks:The download version of the album included alternative mixes of tracks from the standard version as bonus tracks. Three additional tracks were included in the UK release of the album, which was retitled Soldiers of Misfortune, whereas only one extra track was included...
. However, after recording the song at a home studio, Richard Patrick
Richard Patrick
Richard Patrick is an American rock musician. He is the frontman for the band Filter, a founding member of the supergroup Army of Anyone, and has served as a touring guitarist for Nine Inch Nails....
and the DeLeo brothers decided to halt Filter and form their own group, Army of Anyone.
"Goodbye" would be the album's lead single
Lead single
A lead single is usually the first single released by a musician or a band before the release of its home album.During the era of the grammophone record, all music arrived in the marketplace as what is now termed a single, one potential hit song backed by an additional song of generally less...
. It was performed on Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Late Night with Conan O'Brien is an American late-night talk show hosted by Conan O'Brien that aired 2,725 episodes on NBC between 1993 and 2009. The show featured varied comedic material, celebrity interviews, and musical and comedy performances. Late Night aired weeknights at 12:37 am...
on November 20, 2006 and Last Call with Carson Daly
Last Call with Carson Daly
Last Call with Carson Daly is an American late night talk show that is broadcast on NBC. The show is hosted by Carson Daly, the half-hour show featuring celebrity interviews, documentary-style coverage of a topic, and musical performances. Last Call airs weeknights at 1:35 a.m. Eastern / 12:35 a.m....
on November 23. "Goodbye" received considerable radio play, ultimately reaching #3 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. A music video
Music video
A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings...
was also produced for the track. The follow-up single, "Father Figure," also received radio play but did not match the same success as its predecessor. It was performed on the July 5, 2007 edition of The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson is a Peabody Award-winning American late-night talk show hosted by Scottish American comedian Craig Ferguson. Ferguson, the third regular host of the Late Late Show franchise, follows Late Show with David Letterman in the CBS late-night lineup...
.
The iTunes
ITunes
iTunes is a media player computer program, used for playing, downloading, and organizing digital music and video files on desktop computers. It can also manage contents on iPod, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad....
bonus track "Used to Know Her" was a downloadable mp3
MP3
MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a patented digital audio encoding format using a form of lossy data compression...
on the band's official website prior to the album's release. It was later removed from the website. The iTunes version cuts out abruptly at the 2 minute 59 seconds mark. Army of Anyone has since reposted it for download on their official website.http://www.armyofanyone.com/promo/audio/free/aoa_Used_to_Know_Her.mp3
The song "It Doesn't Seem to Matter" is featured in the 2007 video game Burnout Dominator.
The band had mentioned that they had worked on up to thirty songs for the album, however, only thirteen have ever surfaced, the eleven standard songs, and the 2 b-sides "Used to Know Her" and "Good Time to Loosen".
Critical reception
Despite low album sales, Army of Anyone received largely positive reviews by various major publications. David Fricke of Rolling StoneRolling Stone
Rolling Stone is a US-based magazine devoted to music, liberal politics, and popular culture that is published every two weeks. Rolling Stone was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner and music critic Ralph J...
proclaimed, "What looks on paper like a gene-splice supergroup
Supergroup (music)
In the late 1960s, the term supergroup was coined to describe "a rock music group whose performers are already famous from having performed individually or in other groups"....
, Audioslave
Audioslave
Audioslave was an American rock supergroup that formed in Los Angeles, California in 2001. It consisted of former Soundgarden lead singer/rhythm guitarist Chris Cornell and the former instrumentalists of Rage Against the Machine: Tom Morello , Tim Commerford and Brad Wilk...
part deux, sounds much better than that on this debut." He acknowledged the easily identified style of STP's former guitarists and cited Patrick as "a less idiosyncratic singer than STP's Scott Weiland
Scott Weiland
Scott Weiland is an American musician, lyricist, and vocalist, most notable for his work with Grammy Award-winning rock band Stone Temple Pilots. Weiland is also known for his five-year career with supergroup Velvet Revolver as well as his own solo career...
, cleaner in tone, more on the note."
Jo-Ann Greene of Allmusic described the album as boasting "sharply written numbers filled with dynamics, musical nuances, and a big sound courtesy of producer Bob Ezrin
Bob Ezrin
Robert Alan "Bob" Ezrin is a Canadian music producer and keyboardist, known for his work with artists including Alice Cooper, Kiss and Pink Floyd. He was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 2004.-Biography:...
." She satisfyingly closed by noting, "With its mixtures of moods, subtle use of genre-shifting, and powerhouse guitars, Army of Anyone breaks down the rock barriers, and fans should be joining up by the droves."
The album received an overall positive review from Marc Weingarten of Entertainment Weekly
Entertainment Weekly
Entertainment Weekly is an American magazine, published by the Time division of Time Warner, that covers film, television, music, broadway theatre, books and popular culture...
as well. Citing the group's reversion to '90s rock, he elaborated, "There's a place for this band in 2006. . . It's all a bit derivative, but the DeLeo brothers' melodic twists and turns prevent the songs from settling into a tired groove."
Track listing
- "It Doesn't Seem to Matter" (Richard PatrickRichard PatrickRichard Patrick is an American rock musician. He is the frontman for the band Filter, a founding member of the supergroup Army of Anyone, and has served as a touring guitarist for Nine Inch Nails....
, Robert DeLeoRobert DeLeoRobert Emile DeLeo is an American bass player, songwriter, and harmony vocalist for the rock band Stone Temple Pilots. He has also played in Talk Show and Army of Anyone...
, Dean DeLeoDean DeLeoDean DeLeo is an American guitarist for the rock band Stone Temple Pilots.He is also known for his role in the short-lived bands Talk Show and Army of Anyone, which featured his younger brother Robert DeLeo, Filter frontman Richard Patrick, and session drummer Ray Luzier...
) - 3:51 - "Goodbye" (Patrick, R. DeLeo, D. DeLeo) - 4:31
- "Generation" (Patrick, R. DeLeo, D. DeLeo) - 3:30
- "A Better Place" (Patrick, R. DeLeo) - 4:58
- "Non Stop" (Patrick, R. DeLeo, D. DeLeo) - 3:58
- "Disappear" (Patrick, R. DeLeo) - 4:07
- "Stop Look and Listen" (Patrick, R. DeLeo) - 3:51
- "Ain't Enough" (Patrick, R. DeLeo) - 3:44
- "Father Figure" (Patrick) - 4:04
- "Leave It" (Patrick, D. DeLeo) - 4:27
- "This Wasn't Supposed to Happen" (Patrick, D. DeLeo) - 5:22
B-sides
- "Good Time to Loosen" (iTunes exclusive)
- "Used to Know Her" (iTunes exclusive)
Bonus tracks
- "Ain't Enough (Acoustic)" (Target exclusive)
- "It Doesn't Seem to Matter (Acoustic)" (Best Buy exclusive)
Singles
| Year | Song | US Hot 100 Billboard Hot 100 The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday... |
U.S. Modern Rock | U.S. Mainstream Rock |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | "Goodbye" | - | 21 | 3 |
| 2007 | "Father Figure" | - | - | 31 |
Charting
Album| Year | Chart | Position |
|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Billboard Top 200 | 56 |
Credits
- Richard PatrickRichard PatrickRichard Patrick is an American rock musician. He is the frontman for the band Filter, a founding member of the supergroup Army of Anyone, and has served as a touring guitarist for Nine Inch Nails....
– vocals - Dean DeLeoDean DeLeoDean DeLeo is an American guitarist for the rock band Stone Temple Pilots.He is also known for his role in the short-lived bands Talk Show and Army of Anyone, which featured his younger brother Robert DeLeo, Filter frontman Richard Patrick, and session drummer Ray Luzier...
– guitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
s - Robert DeLeoRobert DeLeoRobert Emile DeLeo is an American bass player, songwriter, and harmony vocalist for the rock band Stone Temple Pilots. He has also played in Talk Show and Army of Anyone...
– bass guitarBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
, backing vocals - Ray LuzierRay LuzierRaymond Lee "Ray" Luzier is an American drummer. He is currently the drummer of the band Korn, becoming a full-time member of the band in April 2009.-Life and career:...
– drumsDrum kitA drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
External links
- "Goodbye" music video @ MTVMTVMTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....
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