Everybody's Entitled to Their Own Opinion

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Everybody's Entitled to Their Own Opinion
The Mr. T Experience - Everybody's Entitled to Their Own Opinion cover.jpg
Studio album by
Released1986 (re-released 1990 & 1995)
Recorded1986
Genre Punk rock, pop punk
Label Disorder Records, Lookout! [1]
The Mr. T Experience chronology
Everybody's Entitled to Their Own Opinion
(1986)
Night Shift at the Thrill Factory
(1988)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide Star full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [3]

Everybody's Entitled to Their Own Opinion is the debut album by the Berkeley, California punk rock band The Mr. T Experience. [4] [5] [6] It was released in 1986 by Disorder Records. [7] [8] The album established the band's presence in the prolific San Francisco Bay Area music scene of the late 1980s and the 1990s. Lookout! Records re-released the album in 1990 and again in 1995.

Contents

Production

The album was recorded and mixed in one day. [9]

Critical reception

Trouser Press called the album "sloppy mid-tempo punk that leaves tunefulness a goal more than an actual quality." [9] The East Bay Express wrote that it revels "in dopey pop culture." [10]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Dr. Frank except where noted.

No.TitleLength
1."One Big Lie"1:36
2."Just Your Way of Saying No" (Jon Von Zelowitz)2:06
3."Marine Recruiter"2:11
4."Sheep"2:37
5."Surfin' Mozart" (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)0:30
6."Danny Partridge"2:48
7."Scientific"2:43
8."Disconnection"2:12
9."Surfin' Cows" (Zelowitz)2:11
10."I'm in Love with Paula Pierce" (Zelowitz)1:30
11."Big Mistake"2:36
12."Pleasant Valley Sunday" (Gerry Goffin, Carole King; originally performed by The Monkees)1:42
13."Mary Mary"3:05
14."The Empty Experience"1:43

Performers

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