So Long, Astoria

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. Initial critical response to So Long, Astoria was very average. At Metacritic... more

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. Initial critical response to So Long, Astoria was very average. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has received an average score of 57, based on seven reviews. All songs written by Kris Roe, except where noted. Radio #2 is in reference to an earlier Ataris track "Radio Still Sucks" from the Let It Burn split with Useless ID. less