''Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me Is Gone'' is the debut studio album by the American

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band

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, released on March 26, 2002, on Startime International. The Walkmen celebrated the album's release by performing at the

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on April 6, 2002. The album received generally positive reviews, especially from independent music reviewers. The song "We've Been Had" was featured in commercials for the

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. The cover is a detail of a Lewis W. Hine photograph, called ''Newsies at Skeeter's Branch, St. Louis, Missouri, 11:00 am, May 9, 1910''.

Reception

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's Charles Spano gave ''Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me Is Gone'' 4.5 out of 5 stars, writing that "It is not so much that the Walkmen sound like

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or the

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or Blondie, but that they, like their NYC peers

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, and Radio 4, evoke the gritty, urban energy so well."

Accolades

Track listing

#"They're Winning" – 2:06 #"Wake Up" – 4:13 #"Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me Is Gone" – 4:12 #"Revenge Wears No Wristwatch" – 3:20 #"The Blizzard of '96" – 3:01 #"French Vacation" – 4:31 #"Stop Talking" – 4:07 #"We've Been Had" – 3:29 #"Roll Down the Line" – 3:11 #"That's the Punch Line" – 3:13 #"It Should Take a While" – 6:22 #"Rue the Day" – 3:36 #"I'm Never Bored" – 5:28

Personnel

;The Walkmen *

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* Paul Maroon -

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* Walter Martin -

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* Peter Bauer - bass * Matt Barrick -

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;Additional Personnel * Kirsten McCord, Karen Waltuch, Meredith Yayanos -

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(3) * Harlem Horns -

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References

The Walkmen albums 2002 debut albums Startime International albums {{2000s-alt-rock-album-stub