Welcome to the Blacklist Club
| Welcome to the Blacklist Club | ||
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| Studio album by Evan Taubenfeld | ||
| Released | May 18, 2010 | |
| Recorded | 2008/2009 | |
| Genre | Pop rock | |
| Label | Sire/Reprise | |
| Producer | John Fields | |
| Singles from Welcome to the Blacklist Club | ||
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Welcome to the Blacklist Club[1] (originally titled With a Wink and a Smile) is the debut album by American singer/songwriter Evan Taubenfeld, ex-guitarist of Avril Lavigne. The album was expected to be released on September 15, 2009,[2] but was rescheduled to a later date. During Taubenfeld's UStream chat on March 28, 2010, he confirmed that the album would be released on iTunes worldwide on May 18, 2010. On February 24, a promotional single, "Cheater of the Year" was released on iTunes, and a lyric video was made available on MySpace. The first official single, "Boy Meets Girl" was released on March 31.
Background
On The Black List Club official site Evan Taubenfeld describes his album in the biography section.[3] "[Welcome to the Blacklist Club] is about being a hopeless romantic trapped under a cinnamon-coated shell that is L.A., I think your outside hardens when you live out here. Most people don’t express how much they want to fall in love. For me, half the album is about being able to expose that. The other half...is more about having fun."
Singles
- "Cheater of the Year" was released as a promotional single on February 24 to iTunes and other digital download websites. An accompanying lyric video was also released onto Myspace.
- "Boy Meets Girl" released on March 31, 2009 was the first official single for the album. A lyric video was created for this song as well.[4]
- "Starbucks Girl" was released on February 9, and a music video was also put up.
- "Pumpkin Pie" is the single which was released in 2010 in support of the album. There is a lyric video for this with an actual video released in July 2010.
Other songs
- On August 12, a video for "It's Like That" was released on the Evan Taubenfeld website, as a reward to the fans for getting "Boy Meets Girl" to one million plays on Myspace. However, although it has a video, it has not yet been released in single format. The video, unlike the previous videos, is not a lyric video, and features clips of Evan in various places singing the song, and many photographs of his friends and fanbase, which were sent to him prior to the creation of the video.
Track listing
Evan Taubenfeld released an image of a demo CD with an original track list for Welcome to the Blacklist Club, however, since doing this, he has adjusted the track list somewhat. 'Love/Hate' and 'Waiting' were cut from the album, although they were given away to fans on his weekly live uStream. Two new songs, 'Starbucks Girl' and 'Best Years of Our Lives' have been added, the demo version of the latter had been available for several years beforehand though, one of the tracks from his previous project. The song 'I Love the Both of You' may be added to the final track listing. The songs cut will be saved to be released as b-sides or bonus tracks.
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Pumpkin Pie" | Evan Taubenfeld, Kevin Kadish | 3:52 |
| 2. | "Boy Meets Girl" | Taubenfeld, Adam Richman, William James (Bleu) McAuley III, Alex Scutro | 3:27 |
| 3. | "Story of Me and You" | Taubenfeld, Kadish | 3:11 |
| 4. | "Matter of Time" | Taubenfeld, Kadish | 2:49 |
| 5. | "It's Like That" | Taubenfeld, Kadish | 2:40 |
| 6. | "Razorblade Limeade" | Taubenfeld, Kadish | 4:05 |
| 7. | "Cheater of the Year" | Taubenfeld, Kadish | 3:00 |
| 8. | "Evan Way" | Taubenfeld, Avril Lavigne, Kadish | 3:58 |
| 9. | "Waiting" | Taubenfeld | 4:09 |
| 10. | "Better than You" | Taubenfeld, Kadish | 3:09 |
Personnel
- Musicians
- Evan Taubenfeld – vocals, guitars, bass, piano, programming
- Devin Bronson – guitars
- Mike Castonguay – bass
- Isaac Carpenter – drums
- John Fields – keyboards, additional guitars, bass, backing vocals
- Kevin Kadish – programming, keyboards, guitars
- Dorian Crozier – drums
- Stephen Lu – string arrangement, keyboards
- Drew Taubenfeld – additional guitars
- William James (Bleu) McAuley III – backing vocals, additional acoustic guitars
- Avril Lavigne – backing vocals
- Will Owsley – backing vocals
- John Taylor – backing vocals
- Jason Scheff – backing vocals
- Jimmy Coup – backing vocals
- Chuck Gladfelter – backing vocals
- Production
- John Fields – producer, engineer, mixer
- Evan Taubenfeld – additional production
- Kevin Kadish – additional production and engineering
- Ross Hogarth – engineer
- Tom Lord Alge – mixer
- Steve Ferlazzo – additional engineering
Promotional touring
Snakes and Suits Acoustic Tour
Prior to the release of the album, around Spring 2009, Evan toured with This Providence and The Academy Is... on the Snakes and Suits acoustic tour in promotion of the current single, Boy Meets Girl, and his debut album and career. He played a set of five songs on most tour dates.
- "Razorblade Limeade"
- "Cheater of the Year"
- "Story of Me and You"
- "Pumpkin Pie"
- "Boy Meets Girl"
Metro Station support
In summer/fall of 2009, he is touring in North America with Metro Station.
Planned world tour
In various videos, Evan has suggested that he has plans to go on a world tour after the release of Welcome to the Blacklist Club, probably either Winter or Spring 2010.
Avril Lavigne Black Star Tour
Evan played as an opening act for Avril Lavigne on the North American Leg of her 2011 Black Star World Tour.