Reggie and the Full Effect plan “Last Stop: Crappy Town” for June

Posted by aubin on Wednesday, April 9, 2008 at 2:30 PM (EDT)

Reggie and The Full Effect will be releasing their new album this June. The record is titled Last Stop: Crappy Town. and is due out June 17, 2008. It is the follow-up to Songs Not To Get Married To which was released in 2005. The 12-track disc was produced by Sean Beavan (Marilyn Manson, NIN, Slayer) and was recorded over the summer of 2006 in both New York City and Los Angeles.

James Dewees, the conservatory-trained keyboardist (for The Get Up Kids, New Found Glory and My Chemical Romance), drummer (for seminal metal act Coalesce) and protagonist behind Reggie & The Full Effect, was joined in the studio by Billy Johnson (RATFE touring drummer) and bassist Paul Grey (better known as #2 from Slipknot) and Cory White (of Coalesce) on guitar.

James adds:

I'm 32 yrs old and fortunate enough to have been a part of this scene pretty much from the old days of $5 ten-band basement shows with Jimmy Eat World and Jejune. In summary, I like this record a lot because it pulls from the last 13 years of my life. I hope you enjoy it too.

G
Smith & 9TH
F
E
3RD AVE
L
J
V
LORIMER ST
R
36TH ST
N

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Vagrant Records (40 comments)

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screamager (April 9, 2008)

Reggie was great/ and hope so will be great/ but the name of the tracks?/Not jack of all trades...

batsenflaggs (April 9, 2008)

8 days too late, guys

you nearly got me though.

sammy_sam_saminson (April 9, 2008)

i like that album title.

probably the only thing i'd like about the album, haha

sammy_sam_saminson (April 9, 2008)

on second thought....if they make another video starring a hand puppet of a mythical creature drinking heavily...maybe i'll like that too.

MattRamone (April 9, 2008)

Um, are the song titles a joke?

TheMike (April 9, 2008)

I hope not.

red_eye_inc (April 9, 2008)

subway stops in new york

TenTalonsDeep (April 9, 2008)

they actually make sense.
if you werent an idiot youd realize.
they're train lines and stops in NYC.
dummy

minorkaty (katy) (April 9, 2008)

Hey, not everyone has been to NYC.
Hell, I'd never even VISITED until I moved. So if I didn't live here now, I'd have no clue.

That said, hell yes, F-train.

LookingForCorpses (April 9, 2008)

It doesn't take much intelligence to figure they're all street names or intersections.
Of course, you're the person who'd never seen the Steve Albini essay on the music industry.

damnitsderek (April 9, 2008)

Oh right, because all of us who don't live in New York are supposed to identify with that. Let us other 49 states sincerely apologize.

KurtTGS (April 11, 2008)

Wow.

Remember everyone, this is the same guy who will offer to fight you for making fun of his friend's bands on this site. And get mad at you for "talking shit."

And yes, I am dumb, because I have never been to NYC either, and didn't get the one letter song titles. Such an idiot.

c-money (April 9, 2008)

The song titles are lists of trains and stops in New York.
Just to clarify for the name-bashing.

skankbook (April 9, 2008)

I thought he "broke up"... either way, I'm curious as to how this will sound. I couldn't get into "Songs Not to Get Married To," but I love "Greatest Hits."

iamnormie (April 9, 2008)

No. He wrote a blog that sounded like they broke up and about a week later wrote another that said that was not the case.

ludwigg (April 9, 2008)

The song titles are all named after New York City streets and subway trains.

For instance, G, F, E, L, J, V, R and N are the G train, F train, E train and so on. Smith & 9th is the last stop on the Brooklyn bound G train. 3rd, 36 St and Lorimer Street are NYC streets.

batsenflaggs (April 9, 2008)

if i wanted things named after that i'd buy a map.

ludwigg (April 9, 2008)

maybe it's a "concept album" ooooooooooooooooooH.

but wait, aren't all reggie and the full effect albums technically concept albums due to reggie being a made up person with a fictional legacy?

sammy_sam_saminson (April 9, 2008)

i'd download the torrent of the map.

TheMike (April 9, 2008)

Honestly guy, do you ever do anything other than bitch and run musicians down?

ludwigg (April 9, 2008)

who are you talking about?

TheMike (April 10, 2008)

batsenflaggs. Maybe I'm misinterpreting him, but I can't remember the last time he wasn't making some kind of snide remark about a band, their music, song titles, etc.

I-type-poorly (April 9, 2008)

The 1-6 trains are clearly the best. I see The Birdman on those all the time.

nina_d (April 9, 2008)

winner

gnardo (April 9, 2008)

Why is it being released two years after recording?

iamnormie (April 9, 2008)

Because supposedly Vagrant wanted nothing to do with the record because its supposed to be all metalish.

LookingForCorpses (April 9, 2008)

He's been involved with other shit and wasn't sure if he even wanted it released.

Alcus (April 9, 2008)

I know just how you feel tonight, this is never what you wanted, I've been searching for myself, in other peoples eyes!! holy shit, The Lawrence Arms are the bomb diggity......yup yup

skankbook (April 9, 2008)

I was able to write two whole paragraphs for my paper on "The Greatest Story Ever Told" on those line alone.

Bipedcasserole (April 9, 2008)

his last album was weaker than anne coulter on a diet. i hope he picks it up (read: is super goofy) with this one. i used to love reggie in high school. "come on, you happy chickens, come on."

red_eye_inc (April 9, 2008)

Man, this guy sucks. His bands get progressively worse and he can't write the tyope of music he thinks he wants to perform. Stick to second fiddle, buddy.

LookingForCorpses (April 9, 2008)

This is the only band he's not second fiddle in, so how do his bands get "progressively worse?"

CircleK (April 9, 2008)

What happened to the double album that was supposed to come out two years ago?

branden (April 9, 2008)

songs not to get married to is awesomely horrific; it sucks ass so bad its good. ill probably pick this up.

minorkaty (katy) (April 9, 2008)

Well, I'm guaranteed to have an awesome birthday this year.

Thanks, James!

suckers (April 9, 2008)

so im guessing the album title is supposed to be a take off the eels song "last song: this town"?

SumWon (April 9, 2008)

I think you mean Last Stop... but yeah I was wondering the same thing. I think it might just be a popular saying though. Always good to see another Eels fan around here. My review of their latest tour the other week got like 5 replies.

damnitsderek (April 9, 2008)

I don't think anything can ever top Apolcalypse, Wow!

damnitsderek (April 9, 2008)

And I did mean Apocalypse, because Apolcalypse just isn't a word.

ludwigg (April 10, 2008)

"I'm 32 yrs old and fortunate enough to have been a part of this scene pretty much from the old days of $5 ten-band basement shows with Jimmy Eat World and Jejune. In summary, I like this record a lot because it pulls from the last 13 years of my life. I hope you enjoy it too."

hopefully this means that this record will be more in line with music from the time that he is referencing. hopefully he doesn't take cue from jimmy eat world, and realease something as bad as chase this light. hopefully he is also a fan of clarity era JEW and not present day. there's a lot to hope for.