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Title: Underneath Release Date: 20 April 2004 (USA) Label: 3CG Records

Co-writers
• Gregg Alexander (New Radicals)
• Matthew Sweet
• Greg Wells

Other musicians
• Michelle Branch (background vocals on "Deeper")
• Sam Farrar (bass, three songs)
• David Garza (electric guitar)
• Abe Laboriel (bass)
• Jamie Muhuberac (synthesizer)
• John Shanks (guitar)
• Greg Wells (bass & accordion)

Producers
• I/T/Z Hanson
• Danny Kortchmar
• Greg Wells

Studios
• 3CG Studios, OK
• Capitol Studios, CA
• Cello Studios, CA
• Henson Studios, CA
• Rocket Carousel Studios, CA
• Sunset Sound Studios, CA

# of pending songs
• 80
• 15 songs written in France
• Underneath will be comprised of 14 songs

1. Strong Enough To Break
   © 2001
   • (I. Hanson / T. Hanson / Z. Hanson / G. Wells)
   • Lyrics
   • Taylor sings lead
   • Also featured on Underneath Acoustic
   • First performed on the Mark & Brian radio show on 12-11-01
   • "The title's pretty clear but it's just talking about being strong enough to pick yourself up back once you're broken. It's like, 'I'm broken but I'm strong enough to put myself back together and get back on the road and get back on that task of life.'" (Z)
   • "Listen to the words for 'Strong Enough to Break.' That was inspired by a crucial event I caught on film. 'I dont feel myself today... just a figure in a big monopoly game... carry on, just a pawn in the same old song...'" (Ashley Greyson, posted at hanson.net)

2. Dancing In The Wind
   © 2001
   • (I. Hanson / T. Hanson / Z. Hanson)
   • Lyrics
   • Taylor sings lead
   • One of the more rock-ier songs
   • One of the first tracks worked on in the studio
   • Written and recorded in early 2001 right after the TTA Tour
   • "It's just a song about fighting the inevitable and realizing there's no way you can change whatever's about to happen but you sort of want to live in the moment and take a deep breath before the inevitable anvil is about to fall." (T)

3. Penny & Me
   © 2001
   • (I. Hanson / T. Hanson / Z. Hanson)
   • Lyrics
   • Taylor sings lead
   • First single off Underneath
   • Written 1 ½ years into the recording process
   • One of the last songs recorded and finalized in the studio
   • First performed on Star 98.7's morning show out of Los Angeles, California on 06-19-03
   • Also featured on Underneath Acoustic
   • "The song is just about how music is always with you, you always have those moments, those memories, and that music that is the soundtrack to your life that just goes with you wherever you go." (I)

4. Underneath
   © 2001
   • (I. Hanson / T. Hanson / Z. Hanson / M. Sweet)
   • Lyrics
   • Taylor sings lead
   • Written in 2-3 hours
   • Written and recorded in early 2001 right after the TTA Tour
   • Featured on Underneath Acoustic

5. Misery
   © 2002
   • (I. Hanson / T. Hanson / Z. Hanson)
   • Lyrics
   • Zac sings lead
   • Also featured on Underneath Acoustic

6. Lost Without Each Other
   © 2001
   • (I. Hanson / T. Hanson / Z. Hanson / G. Alexander)
   • Lyrics
   • Taylor sings lead
   • Second single off Underneath
   • Original working lyric and title was "Don't Go"
   • Written with Gregg Alexander in a friend's Los Angeles home studio in several hours
   • "You can't help but move when you hear it. It's has this kind of Cheap Trick rhythm." (T)

7. When You're Gone
   © 2001
   • (I. Hanson / T. Hanson / Z. Hanson)
   • Lyrics
   • Taylor sings lead
   • First mentioned on Hanson's Christmas 2002 holiday message
   • Also featured on Underneath Acoustic
   • Isaac, explaining the song to their former label: "...listen to that song; if you don't get that song, then you don't get the band..."

8. Broken Angel
   © 2001
   • (I. Hanson / T. Hanson / Z. Hanson)
   • Lyrics
   • Zac sings lead
   • First track produced solely by Hanson
   • Recorded and written at the end of 2001
   • First performed at the Boston, Massachusetts concert on 08-12-03
   • "That was an especially inspired moment. Zac presented this song to us, and it captures a side of us we'd never shown before. I think you'll see a lot more of this in records to come." (I)

9. Deeper
   © 2000
   • (I. Hanson / T. Hanson / Z. Hanson)
   • Lyrics
   • Work in progress
   • Isaac sings lead
   • Written in Brazil during the TTA Tour
   • Features Michelle Branch on background vocals
   • Chorus written by Isaac, verse written by Taylor
   • Also featured on Underneath Acoustic

10. Get Up & Go
    © 2001
    • (I. Hanson / T. Hanson / Z. Hanson)
    • Lyrics
    • Taylor sings lead
    • Written and recorded in early 2001 right after the TTA Tour
    • First performed at the Mayan Theater on 05-30-01 in Los Angeles, California for the movie Frank McKlusky, CI  (released on 04-26-02 in ten Florida cities)
    

11. Crazy Beautiful
    © 2001
    • (I. Hanson / T. Hanson / Z. Hanson)
    • Lyrics
    • Taylor sings lead
    • First mentioned on the Hanson.net anniversary video
    • Written and recorded in early 2001 right after the TTA Tour
    • "For me (Taylor), it's always meant a sort of reckless beauty, the kind that is out of control, the kind that is undefinable. The song is about the kind of payoff that ensues when you're with this person, and the emotional and physical feelings you feel.” (T, hnet chat 081805)

12. Hey
    © 2001
    • (I. Hanson / T. Hanson / Z. Hanson / G. Wells)
    • Lyrics
    • Taylor sings lead
    • First performed on Sabrina The Teenage Witch on 01-11-02
    • Written in Los Angeles with Greg Wells 2-3 weeks after returning from France
    • Also featured on Underneath Acoustic

13. Believe
    © 2001
    • (I. Hanson / T. Hanson / Z. Hanson)
    • Lyrics
    • Taylor sings lead
    • Written in September 2001
    • First performed by Taylor as a solo performance at the Palo Alto, California concert on 09-06-03
    • "'Believe' is basically a song that talks about absolute, total depression and sort of saying, 'everything around me propels disbelief. Life is full of people continuing to say they're defeated. Everybody is always defeated.' And it's sort of saying, 'I wish I could find something else to get me out of this.'" (T)

14. Lulla Belle
    • (I. Hanson / T. Hanson / Z. Hanson)
    • Lyrics
    • Zac sings lead
    • Hidden track on Underneath
    • "The song 'Lulla Belle' is about letting go of something that means a lot to you. Loving something so much that you realize that you are what is keeping it from being so great for the world. Like the Tale of Two Cities." (Z)