A Hangover You Don't Deserve

A Hangover You Don't Deserve is the fifth studio album by American rock band Bowling for Soup. It was released on September 14, 2004, as their third album with Jive Records. The first single, "1985", quickly became a Top 40 staple, peaking at No. 5 on Billboard's Adult Top 40 chart.

Background
The album's name came from lead guitarist Chris Burney, who was also the name inspiration for the band's previous effort, Drunk Enough to Dance.

"Almost" was meant to be the first single off the album. However, the band would receive a call from Butch Walker's manager, who suggested the band cover the SR-71 song, "1985". Upon hearing the song, Reddick felt the subject matter didn't meet the band's criteria, so he asked SR-71 frontman Mitch Allan if he could make changes to the song, to which Allan said yes.

Critical reception
Johnny Loftus, writing for AllMusic, praised the catchability of the first three tracks and Jaret Reddick's songwriting on songs like "Ohio (Come Back to Texas)", but was critical of the album containing typical pop punk production ("stuff like piano breaks, compressed vocals, and steppe farm chorus guitars") that made the band sound too close to similar bands like Goldfinger and Lit, saying that "most of the time it's very hard to hear Bowling for Soup around Hangover's radio and video-ready sheen." Entertainment Weekly writer Brian Hiatt felt that tracks like "1985" were not enough to sustain a whole album, saying that, "Like a lower-SATs version of Fountains of Wayne, the Texas quartet tries to write silly/clever lyrics to go atop their high-carb pop melodies. But too much of the humor (rhyming "Miss Texas" with "bigger breast-es"?) functions on a Jackass: The Band level."

Track listing
Each version of the album, excluding the DualDisc version, has a number of tracks that are four to five seconds of complete silence, titled "[Blank]", between the last song and "Ohio (Reprise)". The number of tracks varies upon the version, but "Ohio (Reprise)" and "Belgium (Boy Band Remix)" are tracks 43 and 44 respectively on all versions.

DualDisc version
CD side
 * Tracks 1–17 of standard edition

DVD side
 * Entire album in 5.1 Surround Sound (including "Ohio (Reprise)" and "Belgium" (Boy Band Remix) as tracks 18 and 19 respectively)
 * Entire album In Stereo PCM
 * "1985" (video)
 * "Almost" (video)
 * "Ridiculous" (video)
 * "Two-Seater" (acoustic) (video from RollingStone.com Originals)

Personnel
Bowling for Soup
 * Jaret Reddick — lead vocals, guitars, producer
 * Erik Chandler — bass guitar, vocals
 * Chris Burney — guitars, vocals
 * Gary Wiseman — drums, percussion

Production
 * Russ-T Cobb - producer, engineer, mixing
 * Butch Walker - producer
 * Casey Diiorio - producer, mixing
 * Sean Loughlin - assistant engineer
 * Christie Priode - project coordinator
 * Tom Lord-Alge - mixing (tracks 1 and 3)
 * Chaz Harper - mastering
 * Jason Janik - album photography

Additional Musicians/Backing Vocals
 * Butch Walker
 * Russ-T Cobb
 * Joey Huffman
 * FFroe
 * Howie
 * Sim Klugerman
 * Sean Loughlin
 * JT Hall
 * Shelly Truesdell
 * Candice Leigh Andrews
 * Sybil Summers as the "ex" in "Down For The Count"

Locations
 * Recorded and mixed at Ruby Red Productions (Atlanta, Georgia) & Valve Studios (Dallas, Texas)
 * Mixed at South Beach Studios (Miami, Florida)
 * Mastered at Battery Mastering (NYC)