Face to Face (1996 Face to Face album)

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Face to Face
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Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 9, 1996
RecordedSpring 1996
Genre Skate punk [1]
Length38:28
Label A&M
Producer Face to Face
Jim Goodwin
Face to Face chronology
Big Choice
(1995)
Face to Face
(1996)
Live
(1998)
Professional ratings
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Face to Face is the 1996 third studio album by the California punk band Face to Face.

Contents

Track listing

All songs written by Trever Keith, except where noted.

  1. "Resignation" - 3:48
  2. "Walk the Walk" (Keith, Scott Shiflett) - 3:35
  3. "Blind" - 2:43
  4. "Ordinary" - 2:48
  5. "I Won't Lie Down" (Keith, Shiflett) - 3:17
  6. "Can't Change the World" - 2:13
  7. "Handout" (Keith, Shiflett) - 3:37
  8. "Everything's Your Fault" - 2:49
  9. "Take It Back" - 2:59
  10. "Complicated" (Keith, Chad Yaro) - 4:02
  11. "Put You in Your Place" - 3:42
  12. "Falling" - 3:01

Personnel

Miscellaneous

the track, "I Won't Lie Down" was covered by Christian rock band Spoken on their album Echoes of the Spirit Still Dwell , and Israeli punk band Man Alive on their 2007 EP Access Denied! A remixed version of "I Won't Lie Down" was also a part of the soundtrack for the movie Mortal Kombat: Annihilation . "Blind" was covered by American punk rock band Rise Against on the album Long Forgotten Songs: B-Sides & Covers 2000–2013 .

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References

  1. "Face To Face - Ignorance Is Bliss - Album Review". Audible. Dig Me Out. June 14, 2022. Retrieved June 30, 2022. Face To Face had established themselves over their first three albums as a skate punk band with elements of Bad Religion and Hüsker Dü.
  2. https://www.allmusic.com/album/r240879/review