Drop Dead Live

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Drop Dead Live
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Live album by
ReleasedAugust 18, 1998
RecordedConey Island High, NYC, February 21, 1998
Genre Punk rock
Length57:34
Label Go-Kart [1]
Lunachicks chronology
Pretty Ugly
(1997)
Drop Dead Live
(1998)
Luxury Problem
(1999)
Professional ratings
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Drop Dead Live is a live album by the American punk rock band Lunachicks. [3] [4] It was released by Go-Kart Records in 1998. [5]

Contents

Production

The album was recorded at New York City's Coney Island High, in February 1998. [1]

Track listing

  1. "Yeah"
  2. "FDS"
  3. "The Day Squid's Gerbil Died"
  4. "Gone Kissin"
  5. "Fingerful"
  6. "Thrown It Away"
  7. "Spork"
  8. "Don't Want You"
  9. "Jerk of All Trades"
  10. "Wing Chun"
  11. "Bitterness Barbie"
  12. "Drop Dead"
  13. "Donuts"
  14. "The Passenger"
  15. "Buttplug"
  16. "Crash"
  17. "Dear Dotti"
  18. "#%@!"
  19. "Spoilt"

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