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)
Singles from Bring Your Own Stereo
  1. "Do Right"
    Released: 1999
  2. "Trash"
    Released: 2000
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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