end century end century fifth studio album american punk rock band released february album band produced offered band assistance earlier career fully producing album release excluded original member left band produced previous album road ruin advanced standards engineering high quality echo chambers methods caused conflict band recording techniques opposed previously emphasized production value working budget songs end century written primarily expand band fan base band original punk genre steering pop oriented sound lyrics album deal different things ranging drug band lifestyle touring album features cover piece baby love successors previous songs punk havana affair received generally positive reviews critics reviewers deemed enjoyable compared band previous releases despite album highest charting album time reaching number billboard chart number albums_chart end century spawned singles baby love remember rock roll radio album title taken repeated track remember rock roll radio end end end end century recording production february attending concert los_angeles music producer offered assist making rocket russia band declined offer feeling album producing album band refused initial offer later asked help album lack popularity sales end century album released drummer producer tommy famous work beatles john_lennon releases defined known dense layered sound came radio standards created instruments performing identical parts high quality echo chambers aid production value producer convinced talent lyrics musical structure intended promote band advanced methods sound output recording sessions album began hollywood los_angeles famous history artists like request helped album engineering studio work recording methods different accustomed previous studio albums band recorded earlier compositions shortest time possible lowest feasible budget relatively low production value end century band experienced infamous budget fully record produce album significant band debut album cost total second album cost end century expensive album career conflict alternative method recording caused conflicts arise sessions bassist wrote obsessive recording techniques sit control room listen hit note drum hour hour hour hour recording rock roll high school johnny forced repeat hundreds times course hours owner relates johnny like chinese water torture early sessions reportedly held hostage gunpoint according took away hour private meeting mansion album recorded went looking thing knew appeared staircase shouting waving pistol leveled gun heart rest band piano room pistol felt secure sat black concert piano listen play sing baby love morning drummer stated guns pointed anybody guns pointed anybody said guns license carry held hostage left time claimed left sessions recording working fourteen hours day thirteen days straight hadn recorded note music wrote autobiography supposedly hearing johnny returned new_york wrote drummer booked flight returned home day idea album end century actually played bass account band collective account interview band stated track johnny play cover version baby love band save gone home cutting basic tracks rest album compositions end century described band album written solely gain popularity resulting pop punk sound failed contribute best abilities album recalled think worst wrote went album worst johnny felt album far band prime end century real baby love didn play gon play orchestra point end century trying hit song instead trying hit songs album trying rest ain gon play songs album opens remember rock roll radio throwback rock music 1950s late 1960s lyrics famous musicians era including john_lennon cite sullivan instruments previously rarely punk rock featured song score including saxophone electric organ lyrics written depict childhood germany secretly listen rock radio stations night johnny heard track affected reported johnny admitted favor song recalling couldn believe awful sounded horrible track lyrical depiction band constantly went touring sessions interviews etc title says refers band tour manager giving members instructions schedules demands according ballad inspired released songs candy says caroline says brother called song masterpiece said remains beautiful songs heard wrote piece chinese rock later revised wrote piece response heroin attempted better lyrics subject drug use heroin addiction johnny vetoed song recorded thunder band bands use slightly different words lyrics deal daily life heroin term chinese rock drug return continuation band earlier songs punk released debut album numerous studio guests involved song recording including bodyguard dan sons jazz guitarist california disc jockey begins baby love johnny constantly claims book commando hated song band didn play studio musicians hated song despite obtaining level popularity europe song cover version original contained string section arrangement deemed sounded right come love confessed song embarrassed rock roll high school originally appeared soundtrack film directed movie depicts story line obsessed female high school student riff pupils attending school album concludes high risk insurance reaction politics era reception critical album received generally positive reviews critics favorable band previous records stephen_thomas_erlewine senior editor allmusic noted desired mainstream success recording music fashion expand fan base allmusic editor noted entire album pretty controversial world music critic robert_christgau called album sad noting favorite songs affected baby love pointed production failed difference band overall sound saying guitar overdubs worse reviewing album rolling_stone called finest mature effort years said production created rich vibrant power setting noted producer author old fans version baby love went far memory original despite evident devotion task lead vocal williams said remember rock roll radio chinese rock maintained principles earlier days commercial end century highest peaking album billboard successful albums_chart swedish chart album album chart norway chart new_zealand band album chart netherlands album halfway release chart singles spawned end century baby love remember rock roll radio released respectively single charted belgium chart remember rock roll radio debuted singles chart charts weekly year end track listing songs written composed indicated personnel lead vocals guitar bass backing vocals drums additional musicians organ production producer director
End of the Century