MM Vol 1 - 061 - Lit

Number 061

Lit

"Miserable"

(1999)

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Genre:Alt Rock

"It's not our job to sell records," states soft-spoken Lit front man A.Jay Popoff. "Our job is to write good songs and kick ass live. If we're not doing that, then we've failed." The Orange County, California-based lineup of A.Jay on vocals, Jeremy on guitars, Kevin Baldes on bass, and Allen Shellenberger on drums, together nearly 15 years, have in their own manner, begun anew with Lit. Now on Nitrus/DRT/Dirty Martini Recordings after a productive stint with RCA, the band produced Lit themselves, and did it, to paraphrase Sinatra, "their way," as Jeremy explains: "We went back to our warehouse in Anaheim, feeling free, jamming, for the reasons we started playing in the first place. No deadlines, no expectations, and no one polluting the process; just getting together to have fun and write songs. That said, this record is a little more serious than our others," furthers the axeman. With songs like 'Bulletproof,' about a friend who committed suicide, and 'Lullaby," a song written for his son, "there's not a whole lot of tongue-in-cheek goin’ on."

On their new self-titled fourth CD, this quartet has not only done their job-- they might just be due a promotion. They've delivered a stellar 13-song disc, full of personal, passionate and diverse songs, without a thought to trends. Of course, Lit can't seem to stop selling records either, starting the winning streak with 1999's major-label debut, A Place In the Sun yielding the smash singles “My Own Worst Enemy,” which held the number one position for three months, and received a Billboard Music Award for the biggest Modern Rock Song of 1999, “Ziplock “(#11) and “Miserable”, which was among the top ten most played songs of 2000 and featured Pamela Anderson in the video. Two other CDs, 1997's Tripping the Light Fantastic, and 2001's Atomic, which spawned another top ten hit with “Lipstick & Bruises”, platinum sales, world tours and videos as clever as the band's witty lyrics cemented Lit's deserved success. Circa 2004, with the release of Lit, and the first single "Looks Like They Were Right," the band broke from the past in nearly every way.

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