Bring Your Own Stereo

Bring Your Own Stereo
Studio album by Jimmie's Chicken Shack
Released	August 24, 1999
Recorded	1999
Genre	Alternative rock, alternative metal, post-grunge
Length	45:54
Label	Rocket Records/Island Def Jam [1] [2]
Producer	Jim Wirt
Jimmie's Chicken Shack chronology
Pushing the Salmanilla Envelope (1997) Bring Your Own Stereo (1999) Re.present (2004)
Singles from Bring Your Own Stereo
"Do Right" Released: 1999 "Trash" Released: 2000

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[3]
The Baltimore Sun	[4]
The Indianapolis Star	[1]

Bring Your Own Stereo is a studio album by Jimmie's Chicken Shack, released in 1999. ^{[5] [6]}

It contains the single "Do Right", which peaked at No. 12 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart. ^[7] The album peaked at No. 153 on the Billboard 200. ^[8]

Production

Bring Your Own Stereo is a loose concept album about frontman Jimi Haha's ex-girlfriend. ^[9] The album was produced by Jim Wirt; it was mixed by Tom Lord-Alge. ^[10]

Critical reception

The Indianapolis Star called the album "an eclectic mix of slacker rock, ska, tame punk and acoustic pop with faux hip-hop grooves." ^[1] The Charleston Daily Mail wrote: "Owing as much to '80s New Wave pop as to the band's usual blitz of guitar-heavy, slacker-ska, the Maryland quartet has turned down the crunch and aimed for loftier goals: Songs based on melody rather than guitar riffs." ^[11]

Track listing

All tracks by Jimi Haha

1. "Spiraling" - 3:45
2. "Lazy Boy Dash" - 3:13
3. "Do Right" - 3:02
4. "String Of Pearls" - 3:55
5. "Ooh" - 3:04
6. "Let's Get Flat" - 3:38
7. "Trash" - 3:08
8. "Fill In The Blank" - 3:20
9. "Face It" - 3:20
10. "Silence Again" - 2:59
11. "Pure" - 4:29
12. "Waiting" - 4:04
13. "30 Days" - 3:57

Personnel

• Greg Calbi – Mastering
• Randy Cole – Photography
• Double D – Fiddle
• Steve Ewing – Background vocals
• Stefanie Fife – Cello
• Jill Greenberg – Photography
• Jimi Haha – Fiddle, Art Direction
• Erin Haley – Project Coordinator
• Femio Hernández – Mixing Assistant
• Donat Kazarinoff – Tambourine, Background vocals, Engineer
• Che Colovita Lemon – Bass
• David Leonard – Mixing
• Chris Lord-Alge – Mixing
• Tom Lord-Alge – Mixing
• Declan Morrell – Project Coordinator
• Novi Novog – Viola
• Justin Risley – Assistant Engineer
• Matt Silva – Mixing Assistant
• Sipple – Snare drum
• P.J. Smith – Tambourine
• Jim Wirt – Producer, Engineer
• Kathleen Wirt – Project Coordinator
• Suzanne Ybarra – Project Coordinator

References

1. Slosarek, Steve (February 20, 2000). "Jimmie's Chicken Shack 'Bring Your Own Stereo'". The Indianapolis Star. p. I6.
2. "CNN - There's a lot going on inside Jimmie's Chicken Shack - October 5, 1999". www.cnn.com.
3. AllMusic review
4. Considine, J.D. (August 26, 1999). "Jimmie's Chicken Shack tries to mix energy with melody". The Baltimore Sun. Live. p. 8.
5. "Artist Biography by John Bush". AllMusic. Retrieved July 6, 2021.
6. "Jimmie's Chicken Shack's Che Colovita Lemon". MTV News. Archived from the original on July 9, 2021.
7. "Jimmie's Chicken Shack to celebrate 'Stereo's' 15th year". The Baltimore Sun. Retrieved July 6, 2021.
8. Whitburn, Joel (2001). Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Albums, 1955-2001. Record Research. p. 429.
9. Ghorbani, Lisa (October 28, 1999). "Jimmie's Chicken Shack". Rolling Stone (824): 33.
10. "With 'Holehearted' approval: Jimi Haha to release solo album". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved July 6, 2021.
11. Lipton, Michael (December 16, 1999). "CD Review". Charleston Daily Mail. p. 2D.