Five Lessons Learned

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Five Lessons Learned
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Studio album by Swingin' Utters
Released June 23, 1998
Recorded Winter of 1997-98, at Motor Studios, San Francisco, California
Genre Punk rock, ska punk, folk punk
Length38:07
Label Fat Wreck Chords
Producer Fat Mike, Ryan Greene, Swingin' Utters
Swingin' Utters chronology
A Juvenile Product of the Working Class
(1996)		Five Lessons Learned
(1998)		 Brazen Head E.P.
(1999)
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Five Lessons Learned is the fourth full-length album by Californian punk rock band Swingin' Utters. Released in 1998, it was their second album on Fat Wreck Chords.

Album collection of recorded music, words, sounds

An album is a collection of audio recordings issued as a collection on compact disc (CD), vinyl, audio tape, or another medium. Albums of recorded music were developed in the early 20th century as individual 78-rpm records collected in a bound book resembling a photograph album; this format evolved after 1948 into single vinyl LP records played at ​33 1⁄3 rpm. Vinyl LPs are still issued, though album sales in the 21st-century have mostly focused on CD and MP3 formats. The audio cassette was a format used alongside vinyl from the 1970s into the first decade of the 2000s.

Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed in the mid-1970s in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in 1960s garage rock and other forms of what is now known as "proto-punk" music, punk rock bands rejected perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock. They typically produced short, fast-paced songs with hard-edged melodies and singing styles, stripped-down instrumentation, and often political, anti-establishment lyrics. Punk embraces a DIY ethic; many bands self-produce recordings and distribute them through independent record labels and other informal channels.

Swingin Utters American punk rock band

Swingin' Utters is a Californian punk rock band that formed in the late 1980s. After a seven-year hiatus, the band reformed in 2010 and have since released four more records.

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Background

This album's title track was used on the video game Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 , perhaps making it the band's most widely heard song. "I Need Feedback", however, was the only single released from this album. [2] Also, the song "This Bastard's Life" is featured in music video game Rock Band 3 .

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<i>Tony Hawks Pro Skater 2</i> video game

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The Track "Tell Me Lies" was also featured in a VHS BMX Video called "Dig" Featuring Tim "Fuzzy" Hall and TJ Lavin. The track is played during a Backyard Dirt Session.

Five Lessons Learned is mainly an album of short, fast songs in the 'punk revival' style - "I Need Feedback" borrows a riff from The Damned's "Neat Neat Neat" - but there is also a ska-esque song ("Unpopular Again"), and an Irish folk-style song ("Fruitless Fortunes"), hinting at the band's future direction, and that of the side-project, the Filthy Thievin' Bastards.

The Damned (band) British rock band

The Damned are an English rock band formed in London, England in 1976 by lead vocalist Dave Vanian, guitarist Brian James, bassist Captain Sensible, and drummer Rat Scabies. They were the first punk rock band from the United Kingdom to release a single, "New Rose" (1976), release an album, Damned Damned Damned (1977), and tour the United States. They have nine singles that charted on the UK Singles Chart Top 40.

Neat Neat Neat single by The Damned

"Neat Neat Neat" is the second single by punk rock band the Damned, released 18 February 1977 on Stiff Records, simultaneously with their debut album Damned Damned Damned.

Ska is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae. It combined elements of Caribbean mento and calypso with American jazz and rhythm and blues. Ska is characterized by a walking bass line accented with rhythms on the off beat. It was developed in Jamaica in the 1960s when Prince Buster, Clement "Coxsone" Dodd, and Duke Reid formed sound systems to play American rhythm and blues and then began recording their own songs. In the early 1960s, ska was the dominant music genre of Jamaica and was popular with British mods. Later it became popular with many skinheads.

The outer and inner cover art is by photographer Steve Zeigler [3] and features black-and-white shots involving guns, crime and murder scenes (in one picture, the date "2-14-47" is etched in chalk).

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The presence of the head of the Fat Wreck Chords label, NOFX's Fat Mike, is felt in that he co-produces and plays bass guitar on "Unpopular Again". Another of the many guest musicians is Chris Shiflett, later of Foo Fighters.

Fat Wreck Chords American record label

Fat Wreck Chords is a San Francisco, California-based independent record label, focused on punk rock. It was started by NOFX lead singer Michael Burkett and his girlfriend at the time, Erin Burkett, in 1990.

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NOFX american punk rock band

NOFX is an American punk rock band from Los Angeles, California. They were formed in 1983 by vocalist/bassist Fat Mike and guitarist Eric Melvin. Drummer Erik Sandin joined NOFX shortly after, and El Hefe joined the band in 1991 to play lead guitar and trumpet, rounding out the current line-up.

Track listing

  1. "Five Lessons Learned" (Koski/Aust Koski) – 1:55
  2. "Tell Me Lies" (Huber) – 2:09
  3. "A Promise to Distinction" (Koski) – 2:08
  4. "The Stooge" (Koski) – 3:27
  5. "(The) Picture's Perfect" (Huber) – 2:37
  6. "This Bastard's Life" (Huber) – 3:05
  7. "As You Start Leaving" (Koski) – 2:44
  8. "I Need Feedback" (Huber) – 3:27
  9. "Good People" (Koski) – 2:18
  10. "As Sure as I'm down" (Bonnel) – 2:01
  11. "Untitled 21" (Huber) – 2:36
  12. "Unpopular Again" (Huber) – 3:16
  13. "New Day Rising" (Koski) – 1:49
  14. "Two Jacks Shitty" (Bonnel) – 1:43
  15. "Fruitless Fortunes" (Koski) – 2:52

Personnel

Johnny "Peebucks" Bonnel is the lead singer and a songwriter of the punk rock band Swingin' Utters and the alternative punk rock band Filthy Thievin' Bastards. His new project is entitled "Druglords of the Avenues".

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References

  1. ↑ Allmusic review
  2. ↑ Fat Wreck Chords, "I Need Feedback" accessed 1 Sep 2008
  3. ↑ Stephen Zeigler, Photographer accessed 1 Sep 2008
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