So Long, Astoria

So Long, Astoria

Infobox Album |
Name = So Long, Astoria
Type = Album
Artist = The Ataris


Released = March 4 2003
Recorded = August 19 to November 1, 2002 at Ocean Studios, Burbank, California; Grandmaster, Hollywood, California and Orange Whip Studios, Santa Barbara, California
Genre = Pop punk
Length = 48:55
Label = Columbia
Producer = Lou Giordano
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:jpdaylo4xpzb~T1 link]
*"Rolling Stone" Rating|2|5 [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/theataris/albums/album/263465/review/5945353/so_long_astoria link] |
Last album = "All You Can Ever Learn Is What You Already Know"
(2002)
This album = "So Long, Astoria"
(2003)
Next album = "Live at the Metro"
(2004)

"So Long, Astoria" is the fourth full-length album released by The Ataris on March 4, 2003.

This is The Ataris' first album on Columbia Records, having previously been signed to independent punk label Kung Fu Records. It peaked at #24 on the Billboard 200 and has gone gold since. The album's title song alludes to the 1985 film The Goonies, which is set in Astoria, Oregon.

Track listing

All songs written by Kris Roe, except where noted.

# "So Long, Astoria" – 3:22
# "Takeoffs and Landings" – 3:56
# "In This Diary" – 3:54
# "My Reply" – 4:14
# "Unopened Letter to the World" – 2:38
# "The Saddest Song" – 4:15
# "Summer '79" – 3:57
# "The Hero Dies In This One" (Roe, Mike Davenport, John Collura and Chris Knapp) – 4:07
# "All You Can Ever Learn Is What You Already Know" (Roe, Davenport, Collura and Knapp) – 3:31
# "The Boys of Summer" (Don Henley and Michael Campbell) – 4:18
# "Radio #2" – 3:20 (featuring backing vocals by Mike Herrera of MxPx)
# "Looking Back on Today" – 3:53
# "Eight of Nine" – 3:30
# "I Won't Spend Another Night Alone" – 3:50 (hidden track)
# "The Saddest Song (Acoustic)" – 4:09 (hidden track)

Radio #2 is in reference to an earlier Ataris track "Radio Still Sucks" from the Let It Burn split with Useless ID.

ee also

* Astoria, Oregon
* The Goonies


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