Some Boys Got It, Most Men Don't

Some Boys Got It, Most Men Don't
Studio album by d.b.s.
Released	June 1999[1]
Genre	Punk rock Post-hardcore
Length	39:22
Label	New Disorder Records
d.b.s. chronology
I Is for Insignificant (1998) Some Boys Got It, Most Men Don't (1999) If Life Were a Result, We'd All Be Dead (2000)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Exclaim!	(favorable)[2]
Punknews.org	[3]

Some Boys Got It, Most Men Don't is the fourth album released by the North Vancouver punk band d.b.s. It was released by New Disorder Records in June 1999. This is the first d.b.s. recording to feature new bassist Ryan Angus, who replaced Dhani Borges.

The album marks a turning point in the band's development, and had some post-hardcore influence.^[4] Tracks such as "...And Then I Awoke" and "Past Friendships" included acoustic guitar; these tracks have been likened to the sound of The Promise Ring and Jawbreaker, respectively.^[4][5][6] The album also received comparisons to some emo hardcore bands on Jade Tree Records, such as Lifetime and Kid Dynamite,^[5] as well as Converge.^[6] For the final five minutes of "A Foundation for Positive Change", there is heavy feedback, a piano playing a repeated theme, and fuzzy sampled voice clips—resulting in a more experimental sound than the band's earlier recordings, and presaging the sampled music that band member Andy Dixon would later compose.

Track listing

1. "Set Your Clock Back an Hour" – 1:34
2. "Your Apathy Is Killing Both of Us" – 3:10
3. "Starboard" – 3:54
4. "Dear Diary" – 0:29
5. "The Sun Went All the Way Down" – 2:59
6. "...And Then I Awoke" – 3:55
7. "Aspirations" – 2:15
8. "My Life as a Book (Chapter Two)" – 3:24
9. "Apology" – 2:54
10. "Kitchen Noise" – 4:04
11. "Past Friendships" – 4:56
12. "A Foundation for Positive Change" – 5:54

Personnel

• Andy Dixon – guitar, backing vocals
• Jesse Gander – vocals
• Paul Patko – drums, backing vocals
• Ryan "Nordburg" Angus – bass guitar

References

1. d.b.s. news—January 1998 to June 2001
2. Exclaim! review
3. Punknews.org review
4. Rob Ferraz (October 1999). "Pop Rocks: Some Boys Got It, Most Men Don't". Exclaim!. Toronto. Retrieved 20 January 2009. The music shifts easily from Promise Ring-style melody ("And Then I Awoke"), to emo hardcore ("A Foundation for Positive Change") in the blink of an eye. On "Past Friendships" they slide into a Jawbreaker-style ballad complete with melancholy lyrics.
5. Sean Dwyer (14 February 2000). "Some Boys Got It, Most Men Don't review". Film Junk. St. Catharines. Retrieved 20 January 2009. On this album, they have clearly been influenced by a lot of the emo and hardcore bands on Jade Tree Records, such as Lifetime, Kid Dynamite, and The Promise Ring.
6. Shawn Cameron. "Some Boys Got It, Most Men Don't review". Collective Zine. Retrieved 20 January 2009. This record ranges in styles, from emo-punk, hardcore, muted trumpet acoustic ballads, to straight out metal ala Converge. [...] The lyrics are very well written, comparisons to Jawbreaker can easily be made while not coming off as the least bit...ridiculous.