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~ 28 Days
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  • Audio CD (30 Jun 2003)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Mushroom
  • ASIN: B000056Q2N
  • Other Editions: Audio CD
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 162,214 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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1. The Bird
2. Know The Score
3. Sucker
4. Jedi Vs The Kauss
5. Goodbye
6. Time for Us To Leave
7. Rip It Up
8. Song For Jasmine
9. I Remember
10. Spicy FIngers
11. Rollin Gang
12. What You Know
13. Don't Touch My Turntables
14. Deadly LIke
15. Information Overload
16. Kill The Fake (Seshoo)

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Amazon.co.uk Review

Having met on the ramps of their local Melbourne skate park, there's no questioning the authenticity of 28 Day's skate punk credentials on Upstyledown. Yet their music isn't quite as predictable as that tag and their collective board love suggest. For sure with "I Remember", "The Bird" and the infectious "Goodbye", their debut album slams to heads-down slacker anthems The Offspring would trade their spike tops for, though 28 Days don't quite share their same juvenile sense of humour. But they also do a neat take on early Beastie Boys ("Rip It Up") and, with the incredibly versatile Jay Dunne eager to prove he can rap as well as he can shout and sing, they turn their hand to Limp Bizkit's hardcore rap/funk. In trying to be all things to all skate fans, Upstyledown isn't always brilliant; Dunne would have to admit that his rhyming skills on "Sucker" and "Deadly Like" aren't much of a match for Limp Bizkit's Fred Durst. Still, with hooks to bounce off the walls to, come the chorus it really doesn't matter. --Dan Gennoe

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5.0 out of 5 stars God bless Australia!, 7 May 2001
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In recent years, Australia has presented several acts to the alternative music scene that, though failing to replicate the commercial success that they enjoy in their homeland, nevertheless show a refreshing face to a tired formula. Silverchair did it with grunge, the Living End did it with punk, and now 28 Days are here to tackle crossover.

From opening track 'The Bird', the antipodean quintet come on like a carefree Pennywise, displaying the same smartly delivered hardcore skills present throughout their 1998 debut. But 'Upstyledown' goes on to form a patchwork of styles that makes them a fully unique proposition. Here is a band that can grapple and do away with the more self-depreciating side of emo ('Goodbye'), add a more creditable tone to more mainstream hip-hop flavoured metal ('Sucker) and still bear in mind the riff-tastic glory of old skool rock ('Rip it up'), all with an irrepressible sense of fun; even the album's only possible contender for a ballad ('Song for Jasmine') comes on like a sun-soaked 'A'.

This eclectic style has its trappings however. 28 Days' reluctance to rest with any one genre' mean that comparisons between much of the album and countless other acts can easily be made, and the textbook (though lively) hardcore fillers of 'Rollin Gang' and 'Know the Score' don't help matters.

It's with the last three tracks though that 28 Days re-assure us that they have far from reached a disappointing early career peak; 'Deadly Like' is an impressive display of how the band understand the great potential they have in their DJ, Jedi Master Jay who shines from beginning to end of the record and truly adds something special to the music. 'Information Overload' is a genre-crossing paradigm of Nu-metal and punk, and 'Kill the Fake' is a daring dynamic of clean aggression, and surely the best indicator of the band's future style.

All in all, though largely derivative, 'Upstyledown' remains the perfect Summer album, uncompromising in its delivery of fun and style, and displaying the odd moment of inspiration that ensures that 28 Days are likely to remain a mainstay of the alternative Summer soundtrack for years to come.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Faultless (Apart from the many interludes), 29 Sep 2001
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What can i say, this album is brilliant. With classic songs such as the bird, sucker, goodbye etc... 28 days rank up there with silverchair as the best musical imports from Austrailia.
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5.0 out of 5 stars What have the Australians ever done for us?, 9 Sep 2001
OoooooO! Oh my word I've just come. This truly is the best thing to come out of Australia since Elle Macpherson, Mad Max and Home and Away. It beautifully mixes rap/metal that everyone else is trying to do, with apparent ease some elements of "Rage" and "A" shine through but maybe this band lived next door to Grinspoon or something because most of the guitar seem to have been lifted from "Guide etc...". The turntables/ scratching is better than the Scratch perverts and easily on a par with Bloodhound Gang's amazing efforts. Nice bit of human beat box at the end, fun happy secret track. This album has enough swearing to make it fun, but doesn't labour the point or rely on it to make it popular. This album is genius, check out Rip It Up and Deadly Like. 5/5.
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5.0 out of 5 stars fantastic! australian music! huge there and will be here!
this is one brilliant mix of punk and hip hop there gonna be huge here i just saw them with goldfinger on tour and there were excellent loved every moment and same with the cd... Read more
Published on 23 Mar 2001

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent find!
28 days are a very good Alternative Australian band. There music is excellent and varied un-like a lot of other bands. Read more
Published on 25 Dec 2000

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