History Music / TheUsed

* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: Due to their changing of styles and experimentation, their music ranges from from a 1 ("All That I've Got", "Overdose") all the way up to a 9 ("Sound Effects and Overdramatics"), with everything and anything in between, sometimes fluctuating over the course of the same song.

** There are several examples of the trope played straight, though, such as "The Ripper", featuring sad lyrics about how people don't live for the moment (the titular ripper being time itself) sung to a happy tune. "Cut Up Angels" is another shining example of a jaunty tune carrying lyrics about an extremely disfunction relationship.

** There are several examples of the trope played straight, though, such as "The Ripper", featuring sad lyrics about how people don't live for the moment (the titular ripper being time itself) sung to a happy tune.

The Used are known for having a highly versatile sound that has been said to fall under many genres, tones and moods, often switching over the course of a single song. While {{Post Hardcore}} and {{Alternative Rock}} are perhaps the best fitting, the terms "{{emo}}" and "PostPunk" tend to get thrown into the mix, despite the band's neglect to consider themselves by those genres. Says frontman Rob [=McCracken=], "We're a rock band. That's all we've ever been."

* Rob "Bert" [=McCracken=] - lead vocals, piano

** Subverted in the bonus track-like thing at the end of "Force Without Violence", where Rob lists more creative, articulate things to say, including "treacherous, hideous, ridiculous phallus" and "hyper-banal intellectual syphilis".

* {{Fanservice}}: The occasional make-out session between Rob and Quinn during live shows.

* HoYay: {{Invoked|Trope}}. Again, Rob and Quinn.

* OdeToIntoxication: "Sound Effects and Overdramatics" is partly about crystal meth, but is far from an ode. Rob has had troubles with addiction in his past, although he's been clean for several years now.

The Used are known for having a highly versatile sound that has been said to fall under many genres, tones and moods, often switching over the course of a single song. While {{Post Hardcore}} and {{Alternative Rock}} are perhaps the best fitting, the terms "{{emo}}" and "PostPunk" tend to get thrown into the mix, despite the band's neglect to consider themselves by those genres. Says frontman Bert Mc Cracken, "We're a rock band. That's all we've ever been."

* Bert Mc Cracken - Lead vocals, piano, keyboards.
* Quinn Allman - Lead guitar, backing vocals.
* Jeph Howard - Bass guitar, backing vocals.
* Dan Whitesides - Drums, percussion (as of 2006, as a replacement for former member Branden Steineckert).

* ''In Love And Death'' (2004)

* ''The Ocean of the Sky'' - Includes the cynical punk song "Iddy Biddy" and the fast-paced ear worm "Quixotica".

* AnimatedMusicVideo: Portions of "All That I've Got".

* ClusterFBomb: "Liar Liar (Burn In Hell)". Considering that it's about {{Pedophile Priest}}s, it's justified.
** Subverted in the bonus track-like thing at the end of "Force Without Violence", where Bert lists more creative, articulate things to say, including "treacherous, hideous, ridiculous phallus" and "hyper-banal intellectual syphilis".

* EpicRocking: "Men Are All The Same", which clocks in just under 6 minutes, considering the band mostly performs songs around 3 minutes in length.
** To a slightly lesser extent, a couple of songs from ''The Canyon'' clock in a little over 5 minutes, such as "Upper Falls" and "Over and Over Again".
* {{Fanservice}}: The occasional makeout session between Bert and Quinn during live shows.

* HoYay: {{Invoked|Trope}}. Again, Bert and Quinn.
* HiddenTrack: A 30 second remix at the end of "Smother Me" from ''Lies for the Liars'', preceded by 2 minutes of silence.

* MetalScream: Used in some of their harder songs.

* MoodWhiplash: "Earthquake", a softer song, is placed between the nightmare-fuel-filled "The Bird And The Worm" and fast, catchy "Hospital" on Lies For The Liars.
** The same album has another example - the angry "Liar Liar (Burn In Hell)" is placed between the two gentlest songs on the record, "Find A Way" and "Smother Me".

* NonAppearingTitle: Rarely. "Noise And Kisses" is an example.
* OdeToIntoxication: "Sound Effects And Overdramatics" is partly about crystal meth, but is far from an ode. Bert has had troubles with addiction in his past, although he's been clean for several years now.

* ReligionIsWrong: A subject of several of their songs, especially atheist anthem "On The Cross".

An American rock band from Orem, Utah. Since their formation in 2001, they have released six studio albums.

* ''Lies For The Liars'' (2007)

* GriefSong: "Hard To Say".

* HiddenTrack: A 30 second remix at the end of "Smother Me", preceded by 2 minutes of silence.

** There are several aversions, though, such as "The Ripper", featuring sad lyrics about how people don't live for the moment (the titular ripper being time itself) sung to a happy tune.

* ClusterFBomb: "Liar Liar (Burn In Hell)". Considering that it's about {{Pedophile Priest}}s and hipsters, it's justified.

* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: Due to their changing of styles and experimentation, their music ranges from from a 1 ("All That I've Got", "Overdose") all the way up to a 9 ("A Box Full of Sharp Objects", "Sound Effects and Overdramatics"), with everything and anything in between, sometimes fluctuating over the course of the same song.

* OdeToIntoxication: "Sound Effects And Overdramatics" is partly about crystal meth. Bert has had troubles with addiction in his past, although he's been clean for several years now.

The Used are known for having a highly versatile sound that has been said to fall under many genres, tones and moods, often switching over the course of a single song. While {{Post Hardcore}} and {{Alternative Rock}} are perhaps the best fitting, the terms "{{emo}}" and "PostHardcore" tend to get thrown into the mix, despite the band's neglect to consider themselves by those genres. Says frontman Bert Mc Cracken, "We're a rock band. That's all we've ever been."

** Subverted in the "Force Without Violence", where Bert lists more creative, articulate things to say.

!!Tropes featured by TheUsed:

An American rock band from Orem, Utah. Since their formation in 2001, they have released five studio albums.

The Used are known for having a highly versatile sound that has been said to fall under many genres, tones and moods, often switching over the course of a single song. While {{Post Hardcore}} and {{Alternative Rock}} are perhaps the best fitting, the term "{{emo}}" tends to get thrown into the mix, despite the band's neglect to consider themselves by those genres. Says frontman Bert Mc Cracken, "We're a rock band. That's all we've ever been."

* AWildRapperAppears: Bert, briefly, in "A Song to Stifle Imperial Progression"- "So God bless the USA for what it's worth and let it be/Because there is no God and there is no USA, from what I see."

->''"Call me a traitor for changing my mind''
-> ''Call me a criminal if thinking's a crime''
-> ''Call me an animal, it's hard to define''
-> ''I don't care what you say I came to defy."''

->''"Call me a traitor for changing my mind
Call me a criminal if thinking's a crime
Call me an animal, it's hard to define
I don't care what you say I came to defy."''

* PrecisionFStrike: Featured in "Hands and Faces", "The Taste of Ink", "All That I've Got" and "I'm a Fake", among others. The Used prefer this over the ClusterFBomb, making the one curse word in a few songs much more meaningful than most rappers' cursing every other line.
** "Iddy Biddy" only has three curse words, and they're stuffed into three lines, but Bert makes sure to use them in the way that swearing was meant to be used: to shock and offend. [[RefugeInAudacity They're directed at Jesus, Mahatma Gandhi and Mother Teresa]].

* HiddenTrack: A 30 second remix at the end of ''Smother Me'', preceded by 2 minutes of silence.

* EpicRocking: "Smother Me" exceeds the 6-minute mark. "Men Are All The Same", which clocks in just under 6 minutes, also qualifies, considering the band mostly performs songs around 3 minutes in length.

** An example from "Wake The Dead" - "Take a walk with me, walk with the dead, cause you knew we'd have to die sometime" is sang to a slow melodic tone.

* LoveIsADrug: "Overdose" says this explicitly.

** Subverted in the "Force Without Violence", where Bert lists more creative, artistic things to say.

** Subverted in the "Force Without Violence", where Bert lists more creative things to say.

** Subverted in the "Force Without Violence", where Bert describes more creative things to say.