Bring Your Own Stereo

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Bring Your Own Stereo
Jimmies chicken shack bring your own stereo.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedAug 24, 1999
Recorded1999
Genre Alternative rock, alternative metal, post-grunge
Length45:54
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)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [3]
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The Indianapolis Star Star full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [1]

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

Contents

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

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