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''Busted'' is the self-titled debut album by English
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band Busted. It was released in the UK in September 2002 and peaked at number 2 the following January after the success of second single " Year 3000", which reached number 2 on the UK Singles Chart. Five singles were released from the album: "
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", " Year 3000", " You Said No", " Hurra, hurra, die Schule brennt" (released in continental Europe only) and " Sleeping with the Light On". ''Busted'' was the 9th best-selling album of 2003 in the UK. The album has sold over 1.2 million copies and been certified as 4× Platinum in the UK. The album spent 77 weeks on the UK Top 75 Albums chart. Both "What I Go to School For" and "Year 3000" were covered by the
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, and released on their 2006 album '' It's About Time''.


Background

With the original line-up of Busted having broken up in 2001, guitarist
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and bassist
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set about finding a new band member.
Charlie Simpson Charles Robert Simpson (born 7 June 1985) is an English singer, songwriter, and musician from Suffolk. He is a member of the pop punk band Busted (band), Busted and the rock band Fightstar. AllMusic has noted that Simpson is "perhaps the only p ...
and
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both originally made it in, but the latter was cut from the final lineup. Six tracks on the album were co-written with John McLaughlin and
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, who often collaborate with each other. The other remaining songs were written by the band themselves.


Singles

The first single released from ''Busted'' was "
What I Go to School For "What I Go to School For" is the debut single of English pop rock band Busted. It was written by James Bourne, Charlie Simpson, Matt Willis, Steve Robson, and John McLaughlin and produced by Robson. The track was inspired by a teacher that Mat ...
", which reached number 3. This was followed by "Year 3000", which reached number 2, " You Said No" and " Sleeping with the Light On". "You Said No" peaked at number 1 and "Sleeping with the Light On" peaked at number 3. With "You Said No", Busted entered the ''
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'' for being the first artist to have their first three singles enter the top three of the UK Singles Chart in ascending order. A European-only single, " Hurra, hurra, die Schule brennt", was released on the same date as "You Said No" was released in the UK. "You Said No" is titled "Crash and Burn" on the original album release, but its title was changed for the single release because of the
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. In an interview with ''
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'', Willis said, "We were deciding what single to go for just as that happened and we really wanted to use Crash and Burn but we thought the name was inappropriate - it would have been bad taste." Simpson also stated in 2016 that "we thought it was a bit insensitive around
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." On the cassette release of the album, "Losing You" is advertised as a single. However, the song never was released as a single, and it is unknown whether it was planned to be or if this was a mistake. In 2018, Willis said that they would never play the song live, stating "We've never played that song. For a very good reason – we don't like it. It's not very good, it's quite embarrassing."


Reception

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states: " ustedslide smoothly between... dull teen pop ballads with the sickeningly overwrought vocals typical of the genre... and relatively more creative stuff that punches up the formula with pop-ternative production and smirking, yet still squeaky clean lyrical witticisms. At best it's
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with better cheekbones; at worst, Busted is a neutered
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". On
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, Jacqueline Hodges wrote: "Think a younger, British
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or
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junior and you will be along the right lines. Their cheeky and geeky
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mush". ''Q'' was more positive, Dan Stubbs writing: "Tales of copping off, time travel and a five-fingered fantasy about a schoolteacher with a nice bottom are delivered through inspired one-liners and clever gimmicks".Stubbs, Dan, ''Busted'', review, '' Q'', December 2002.


B-sides

Busted recorded a number of B-sides for their album campaign, including a number of classic covers, including cover versions of "
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", "
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" and " Mrs Robinson", as well as new tracks including "Late Night Sauna", "My Good Friend" and "Last Summer", as well as the demo version of "Year 3000". The version of "Year 3000" which appears as the B-side to " Sleeping with the Light On" is the version which the band presented to
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before they were signed by the label. "My Good Friend" has never been released on CD, and only appears on the cassette release of "You Said No", becoming one of the rarest Busted tracks around. The demo version of "Year 3000" was also only released on cassette, meaning it is also very rare and hard to find.


Track listing

* "You Said No" was originally titled "Crash and Burn" prior to the album's re-issue.


Personnel

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James Bourne James Elliot Bourne (born 13 September 1983) is an English singer-songwriter and musician. He is known as the co-founder of pop-punk bands Busted (band), Busted and Son of Dork, and he also created his own electronic project under the alias Fu ...
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Charlie Simpson Charles Robert Simpson (born 7 June 1985) is an English singer, songwriter, and musician from Suffolk. He is a member of the pop punk band Busted (band), Busted and the rock band Fightstar. AllMusic has noted that Simpson is "perhaps the only p ...
guitars The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with Fretless guitar, some exceptions) and typically has six or Twelve-string guitar, twelve strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming ...
,
vocals Singing is the art of creating music with the voice. It is the oldest form of musical expression, and the human voice can be considered the first musical instrument. The definition of singing varies across sources. Some sources define sing ...
,
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Matt Willis Matt Willis (born 8 May 1983) is an English musician, singer, songwriter, television personality and actor. He is known as co-founder, bassist and co-vocalist of the pop-punk band Busted (band), Busted. Willis released his debut solo album ''Do ...
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vocals Singing is the art of creating music with the voice. It is the oldest form of musical expression, and the human voice can be considered the first musical instrument. The definition of singing varies across sources. Some sources define sing ...
*
Steve Robson Steve Robson (born 1969) is an English songwriter and record producer who has sold in excess of 138 million records around the world. He has written and produced 12 No. 1 UK/US singles, 38 No. 1 UK/US albums and a further 41 top 5 UK/US albums ...
production Production may refer to: Economics and business * Production (economics) * Production, the act of manufacturing goods * Production, in the outline of industrial organization, the act of making products (goods and services) * Production as a stat ...
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References

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