''Music for Cougars'' is

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's sixth studio album. The album was not as successful commercially as previous Sugar Ray albums. It reached number eighty on the ''Billboard'' 200 chart, with none of the album's three singles charting. This was the last album to feature turntablist Craig "DJ Homicide" Bullock, bassist

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and drummer Stan Frazier before their departures in August 2010 and early 2012, respectively.

Reception

Stephen Thomas Erlewine of

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gave the album three-and-half out of five stars. He noted its heavy usage of

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, and wrote "they make no bones about making Music for Cougars, those cougars being the very girls that shook their hips to ' Fly' back in 1997 and are looking for a little bit of the same breezy vibe 12 years later, a little bit of sexy nostalgia to get them through their summer, a soundtrack to a few girls' nights out." '' Billboard'' claimed that it "marks a return to the tried-and-true formula that made 1997's 'Fly' a radio staple."

Track listing

# "Girls Were Made to Love" (Featuring

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) (Includes a sample from

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, "(Girls, Girls, Girls) Made to Love", 1962) – 3:38 # "Boardwalk" – 3:26 # "She's Got The (Woo-Hoo)" – 3:35 # "Love Is the Answer" (Cover of a previously unreleased

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track, written by and featuring

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. Later reworked and re-recorded for Weezer's '' Raditude'') – 3:57 # "Rainbow" – 3:17 # "Closer" – 3:33 # "When We Were Young" – 3:21 # "Going Nowhere" – 2:49 # "Love 101" – 3:17 # "Last Days" – 3:33 # "Morning Sun" – 3:44 # "Dance Like No One's Watchin'" (Featuring

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) – 3:53

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Music For Cougars Sugar Ray albums 2009 albums Albums produced by Josh Abraham