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Album: FLY OR DIE
# Song Title   Time
1)    Don't Worry About It More Info... 0:03
2)    Fly Or Die More Info... 0:03
4)    Backseat Love More Info... 0:02
5)    She Wants to Move More Info... 0:03
6)    Breakout More Info... 0:03
7)    Wonderful Place More Info... 0:04
8)    Drill Sergeant More Info... 0:04
9)    Thrasher More Info... 0:03
10)    Maybe More Info... 0:04
11)    The Way She Dances More Info... 0:04
12)    Chariot of Fire More Info... 0:03
 

Album: FLY OR DIE
# Song Title   Time
1)    Don't Worry About It More Info... 0:03
2)    Fly Or Die More Info... 0:03
4)    Backseat Love More Info... 0:02
5)    She Wants to Move More Info... 0:03
6)    Breakout More Info... 0:03
7)    Wonderful Place More Info... 0:04
8)    Drill Sergeant More Info... 0:04
9)    Thrasher More Info... 0:03
10)    Maybe More Info... 0:04
11)    The Way She Dances More Info... 0:04
12)    Chariot of Fire More Info... 0:03
 
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  • This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.
  • Joel & Benji Madden are both members of the group Good Charlotte.
  • N.E.R.D.: Pharrell, Chad, Shay.
  • Additional personnel includes: Joel Madden, Benji Madden (vocals); Lenny Kravitz, Andrew Coleman (guitar); Ahmir "?uestlove" Thompson (drums).
  • Recorded at Hovercraft Recording Studios, Virginia Beach, Virginia and The Record Plant, Los Angeles, California.
  • While often boundary-expanding, the ubiquitous beats of the Neptunes (Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo) are supremely radio-friendly. However, when Williams and Hugo are two-thirds of N.E.R.D. (alongside Shay), the genie is out of the bottle, and previously unimagined, genre-busting concoctions are unfurled. The second N.E.R.D. album is the product of gloriously schizophrenic genius, with acutely honed pop sensibilities. Leadoff single "She Wants to Move" features the most traditional Neptunes beat surrounded by a hyperactive rhythm section and never lets up. From there, the music wanders down a million paths, from Love-styled hippie balladry to Temptations/Sly funk-rock immediacy to dizzying Fishbone funk-punk.
  • N.E.R.D. also displays wry, observational lyricism. On "Wonderful Place," they forge a hallucinogenic landscape where "cartoons are turning into real life," weaving three or four stories into a parable about the troubled world. The more direct "Drill Sergeant" mixes in references to Orson Welles and Barnes & Noble into the chorus chant "I'm not going to war." Building upon the frenzied funk/rock/soul/punk/psychedelia of N.E.R.D.'s debut, FLY OR DIE should solidify the group as one of the most refreshing, intelligent, rising voices in pop music.
Professional Reviews
Rolling Stone (4/15/04, p.147) - 3 stars out of 5 - "It's fascinating to hear these rap geniuses go undercover as a bar band you might hear rocking Journey covers in a bowling alley."

Entertainment Weekly (4/2/04, p.62) - "FLY OR DIE is craftier and more multilayered than its predecessor....[A] set of clever, complex, studio-crafted pop--complete with musicianly, smooth-jazz licks--that doesn't owe allegiance to any one genre." - Rating: A-

Uncut (p.91) - 5 stars out of 5 - "N*E*R*D can replicate machine hypersyncopation at the drop of a hi-hat. Prog-pop album of year."

Uncut (p.74) - Ranked #18 in Uncut's "Best New Albums of 2004" - "[A]n object lesson in eclectic art-rock....[T]his prog-pop classic reveal further depths of detail with every repeated play."

Mojo (Publisher) (p.106) - 4 stars out of 5 - "This is an enthusiastic hymn to the terminally uncool, an un-ironic celebration of nerd-culture....They make a party you want to be invited to."
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