Modified by Save Ferris

Modified, Save Ferris's second album, came out on Epic in 1999, two years after the Orange County crew's full-length debut It Means Everything and the jumped-up cover of "Come On Eileen" that people still hum when you say the band's name. This is a group that had talked its way onto Epic by winning a Grammy showcase prize for best unsigned band, and by now it was restless: the skanking ska-pop of the early days gives ground here to a punchier pop-punk drive, the upstrokes shoved aside by power chords.

It stalled at 136 on the Billboard 200, but one track found a second life when "The Only Way to Be" landed on the soundtrack of Scary Movie in 2000. After that the band went quiet for a long stretch; the next thing on the shelf, the Checkered Past EP, didn't arrive until 2017.

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