'You’re the One,' 'Stuck in America,' 'Saying Goodbye' and the very catchy 'Bouncing off the Walls'—with melodies you’ll have a hard time escaping—get stuck in your head, beware". CMJ New Music Report writer Amy Sciarretto said "Bouncing Off the Walls" was an outlier, as the rest of the album does not "pogo up and down like they've been sucking down cases of Mountain Dew for three days straight". She said despite comparisons to Cheap Trick and the Knack, the album "never sounds retro". Ink 19 reviewer Marcel Feldmar said it was "not bad, it’s Get Up Kids fun, all bright and poppy," telling listeners to ignore some of the song titles, "because the tight melodics and fast forward dynamics keep my head moving and my face smiling". Melodic webmaster Johan Wippsson complimented Wallace's production, and said that the "standard of the songs [is] good enough to makes this record interesting". Richardson said he band's "hefty arena punk [sound] is more than serviceable throughout, hitting its fist-pumping high point on the flippant 'How Does It Feel.' As finger-licking pop metal goes, not quite Sugar and not quite the Cult — but not half bad, either". The staff at Impact Press told the listener not to be "surprised to see a video from these guys someday as they are continuing the formula that has been used time and time again by other Green Day wannabes". Drowned in Sound Peter White, meanwhile, called the album a "festering wreck of a record, it oozes stolen genius. It doesn’t bolster your senses with never ending mesmerising noise, rather sliding Tom Petty punk glimmers through your radio friendly sockets". PopMatters contributor Andrew Ellis wrote that instead of "being a mere clone of what’s come before, what makes their music sustainable in such a crowded scene is the solid songwriting" of Pagnotta. He added that the guitar riffs were "crunchy and economic" as Pagnotta "has an interesting knack for filling his three-minute pop-punk tunes with more than your average teen-angst lyrics". He felt that "what the music (and the name) perhaps lacks in originality, it more than compensates for in well-written, high-energy tunes that remain memorable long past the customary first few plays". By December 2003, Start Static had sold 300,000 copies. Cleveland.com ranked "Bouncing Off the Walls" at number 76 on their list of the top 100 pop-punk songs. Track listing Track listing per booklet. "You're