''Teenage Dream'' is a 2000

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. The album features the original version of the track "Teenage Dream" plus six remixes by artists such as

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, and Lexaunculpt, and two mixes of "Can't You Even Remember That?", a track from the band's debut album ''Chotto Matte a Moment!''.Phares, Heather " ''Teenage Dream'' Review,

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Track listing

All tracks written by Aaron Hartman/IQU. #"Teenage Dream" (original version) - 8:03 #"Teenage Dream" (Looper mix) - 3:58 - remixed by

#"Teenage Dream" (Meek remix) - 4:12 #"Teenage Dream" (Norowareta mix) - 4:28 #"Teenage Dream" (Tokyo and Kids Dubbreaks mix) - 8:03 - remixed by Dub ID #"Teenage Dream" (A Dream Like I Never Had Before mix) - 4:21 #"Teenage Dream" (Bad Blood mix) - 5:17 #"Can't You Even Remember That?" (Q>C mix) - 6:19 - remixed by K.O. #"Can't You Even Remember That?" (Sonic mix) - 5:54 - remixed by

Critical reception

Mark Richard-San of

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, while describing the original "Teenage Dream" track as "great" and stating that it "sums up everything that makes the band interesting in a single seven-minute track", was lukewarm about the album.Richard-San, Mark (2000)
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, August 15, 2000, retrieved 2010-07-25 In his view: "Some of the mixes are decent, but most are average, at best," and he described the album as "one (great) new track and eight (okay) remixes". Heather Phares of

gave the album a three-star review, saying: "Though not all of the six other mixes of the song are illuminating, several of them are enjoyable". Geoff Stahl of

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viewed the album similarly, stating: "There are versions here that close-in on interesting, but with a grating guitar riff which seems a bit to power-chordish for our own good, so that most of the remixes that dwell on it seem more disabled by rather than inspired," and finding the remixes of "Can't You Even Remember That?" "the most pleasing ones on offer".

References

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