| American Beer | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | September 5, 2000 | |||
| Recorded | 2000 | |||
| Genre | Hardcore punk | |||
| Length | 37:11 | |||
| Label | Hall of Records [1] | |||
| Producer | Kevin Oberlin, Lee Ving | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [2] |
American Beer is a studio album by Fear, released in 2000. [3] [4] Many of the album's tracks were written and recorded during Fear's earlier years, but had not appeared on any prior studio albums.
All songs by Lee Ving, except where noted.
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Surgery" | 1:21 |
| 2. | "The Bud Club" | 2:50 |
| 3. | "I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man" (Willie Dixon) | 2:22 |
| 4. | "Beer:30" | 1:06 |
| 5. | "Catfight" (Philo Cramer) | 1:56 |
| 6. | "Beerheads" | 2:14 |
| 7. | "Hard 'Cotto' Salami" | 1:40 |
| 8. | "Another Christmas Beer" | 2:28 |
| 9. | "What's Best in Life" | 3:05 |
| 10. | "33rd & 3rd" | 4:11 |
| 11. | "What If God's Not One of Us" | 3:13 |
| 12. | "I Don't Care Without You" | 3:43 |
| 13. | "Lost in Los Angeles" | 3:10 |
| 14. | "And the Spiders Crawl" | 3:44 |
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