Upbeats and Beatdowns
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| Studio album by Five Iron Frenzy | ||
| Released | November 1996 | |
| Recorded | 2 – 10 September 1996 at One Way Studio in Concord, CA |
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| Genre | Third-wave ska | |
| Length | 47:25 | |
| Label | Five Minute Walk/Warner Bros. Records | |
| Producer(s) | Masaki Liu | |
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| Five Iron Frenzy chronology | ||
| It's Funny but Not Very Creative (1996) |
Upbeats and Beatdowns (1996) |
Our Newest Album Ever! (1997) |
Upbeats and Beatdowns is the first full-length album of the band Five Iron Frenzy. It was released April 8, 1997 on Five Minute Walk, under the SaraBellum imprint, with distribution from Warner Bros. Records.
Contents |
[edit] Track listing
- "Old West" – 2:20
- "Where the Zero Meets the Fifteen" – 3:04
- "Cool Enough For You" – 3:45
- "Anthem" – 2:43
- "Faking Life" – 2:49
- "Shut Up" – 0:04
- "Arnold and Willis and Mr. Drummond" – 2:36
- "I Feel Lucky" – 3:18
- "Milestone" – 3:12
- "Beautiful America" – 3:43
- "Combat Chuck" – 2:09
- "Amalgamate" – 2:58
- "Everywhere I Go" – 2:16
- "A Flowery Song" – 3:40
- "Third World Think Tank" – 8:42
- "Combat Chuck's Call"; – 1:42 (hidden track)
[edit] Personnel
- Jamie Awbrey - Rooster Crow on "A Flowery Song"
- Masaki - says "yah" on "Beautiful America"
- Edith Bunker - Background vocals on "I Feel Lucky"
[edit] Miscellanea
- The liner notes for "Old West" emplore us to learn from the Sand Creek and Meeker Massacres.
- According to the Five iron Frenzy MySpace blog, "Milestone" is often given the title "Nintendo" due to an incorrectly-named mp3 distributed on file-sharing networks.
[edit] External links
| Five Iron Frenzy |
| Reese Roper - Keith Hoerig - Micah Ortega - Dennis Culp - Andrew Verdecchio - Leanor "Jeff" Ortega - Nathanael "Brad" Dunham - Sonnie Johnson - Scott Kerr |
| Discography |
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| Studio albums and EPs: All the Hype That Money Can Buy - Brad Is Dead - Five Iron Frenzy 2: Electric Boogaloo - It's Funny, but Not Very Creative - Miniature Golf Courses of America - Our Newest Album Ever! - Quantity Is Job 1 - The End Is Near - Upbeats and Beatdowns |
| Live albums: Proof That the Youth Are Revolting - The End Is Here |
| B-Sides: Cheeses...(of Nazareth) |
