Flat Tracker

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Flat Tracker
Zeke Flat Tracker original cover.jpg
Studio album by
Released1996
Genre Hardcore punk, hard rock
Length17:48
Label Scooch Pooch [1]
Producer Conrad Uno [2]
Zeke chronology
Flat Tracker
(1996)
Kicked In the Teeth
(1998)
Re-issue cover
Flattracker.jpg
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Flat Tracker is the second studio album by the Seattle hardcore punk band Zeke. [5] [6] It was released on Scooch Pooch Records in 1996 and re-released on Relapse Records in 2008.

Contents

Critical reception

Tucson Weekly wrote that "the heavy-duty scorch of Zeke is as dangerous and thrilling a spectacle as when Evel Knievel jumped his super-charged motorcycle over a dozen school buses at the Houston Astrodome back in the '70s." [4] SF Weekly described the album as "packed with scorching 90-second odes to sex, drugs and fast cars/motorcycles." [7]

AllMusic called it "a relentless ride of rock & roll abandon threaded through with punk rock speed and attitude ... perhaps Zeke's finest album." [3]

Track listing

  1. "T-500"
  2. "Eddie Hill"
  3. "Chiva Knieval"
  4. "Overkill"
  5. "Mystery Train"
  6. "Viva Agostini"
  7. "Hate"
  8. "Raped"
  9. "Wanna Fuck"
  10. "Fight in the Storeroom"
  11. "Flat Track"
  12. "Bitch"
  13. "Daytona"
  14. "Super Six"
  15. "Eliminator"

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