''Act Your Age'' is the second album by the

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, released in 1998 by Outpost Recordings. It was the band's only album for a major label. It expanded their popularity and found them moving into a

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direction musically. The album's most popular tracks were a new version of "Surfer Girl," a song which had originally appeared on their debut album '' That's Business'' and "Suffer" which also appeared on Geffen sampler ''Everything is Beautiful''. ''Act Your Age'' would be the band's final recording with their original lineup, as guitarist Ian Cone left the band shortly after its release. The album contains a hidden track called "Too Many Stops" on track 15 after "Reflections." The song plays at 22:59 into the track and is followed by a 1-minute clip of the band members laughing uncontrollably. ''Act Your Age'' was Home Grown's first album to chart; reaching #24 on Billboard's Heatseekers in 1998.

Track listing

#"Nowhere Slow" (Lohrbach) #"All That You Have" (Lohrbach) #"She's Anti" (Tran) #"Surfer Girl" (Lohrbach) #"Last Nite Regrets" (Tran) #"Suffer" (Lohrbach) #"Your Past" (Tran) #"Grow Up" (Lohrbach) #"Piss Off" (Tran) #"Let Go" (Lohrbach) #"Bad News Blair" (Tran) #"Kids" (Lohrbach) #"Wow, She Dumb" (Tran) #"Envy Me" (Tran) #"Reflections" (Lohrbach) / "Too Many Stops"

Personnel

*John "John E. Trash" Tran –

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*Ian Cone – guitar, vocals *Adam Lohrbach – vocals,

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Album information

*Recorded at Ocean Way Studios, Sound City Studios, and Louie's Clubhouse *Mixed at Louie's Clubhouse *Produced, engineered, and mixed by Clif Norrell *Assistant engineers: John Sorensen,

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, Victor Janacua *Mastered by Howie Weinberg at Masterdisk in

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*Tracks 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 & 15 written by Adam Lohrbach *Tracks 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13 & 14 written by John Tran *Art direction by Pawn Shop Press *Cover photo by Stephen Stickler *Other photography by Alison Dyer

References

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