Friends & Family, Vol. 1

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Friends & Family, Vol. 1
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Compilation album by
Various Artists
Released1997
Recorded1997
Genre Thrash metal
Post-punk
Funk metal
Length61:13
Label Suicidal Records
Producer Suicidal Tendencies
The Freakazoid Twins
Michael Vail Blum
Various Artists chronology
Prime Cuts
(1997)
Friends & Family, Vol. 1
(1997)
Six the Hard Way
(1998)

Friends & Family, Vol. 1 is an album containing various artists' material including Suicidal Tendencies and Infectious Grooves. It was released by Suicidal Records in 1997.

Contents

It was sub-titled "Epic Escape" because Suicidal Tendencies – whose singer Mike Muir runs Suicidal Records – had exited the Epic Records label on which they had released much of their late 1980s and early 1990s material.

The Suicidal Tendencies tracks, "Scream Out" and "We Are Family", were eventually re-recorded and ended up on their next album, Freedumb in 1999.

The Cyco Miko track, "Big Fat Baby", was a re-recording of a track called "Lost My Brain (Once Again)" on the 1995 album of the same name.

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)ArtistLength
1."Panic" Mike Muir, Josh Paul Suicidal Tendencies 4:30
2."Scream Out"MuirSuicidal Tendencies2:29
3."We Are Family"Muir, Mike Clark Suicidal Tendencies2:54
4."Epic Escape"Muir, Dean Pleasants Infectious Grooves 4:06
5."Payback's a Bitch"Muir, Pleasants, Robert Trujillo Infectious Grooves5:42
6."It's Time"Muir, PleasantsInfectious Grooves4:02
7."Sweet Disharmony"Muir Cyco Miko 6:12
8."Big Fat Baby"MuirCyco Miko4:08
9."Some People (Deserve to Die)"Dosage, FiendlyThe Funeral Party3:39
10."Teachin' Lil' Ricky a Lesson"DosageThe Funeral Party5:44
11."Day at the Beach"Mike "Milkbone" JensenCreeper3:28
12."Dysfunktional"Jensen, ClarkCreeper3:34
13."Whose Got a Secret?"The Freakazoid TwinsMusical Heroin5:56
14."They Say"The Freakazoid TwinsMusical Heroin4:49

Credits

Suicidal Tendencies and Infectious Grooves

Cyco Miko

The Funeral Party

Creeper

Musical Heroin

All tracks

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