Just Joined

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Just Joined
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Studio album by
ReleasedMarch 10, 1998
Recorded1997
Studio Westbeach Recorders
Genre Punk rock
Skate punk
Hardcore punk
Melodic hardcore
Length30:29
Label Nitro Records
Producer Trever Keith
Jughead's Revenge chronology
Image Is Everything
(1996)
Just Joined
(1998)
Pearly Gates
(1999)
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Just Joined is Jughead's Revenge's fifth studio album, released in 1998. [1] This album marked the first time since 1992's It's Lonely at the Bottom that the band would record together as a five-piece, adding Craig Riker as their second guitarist. [3] It was also their first and only album recorded with then-future Guttermouth drummer Ty Smith. [4] The album was re-released in 2008 by Nitro Records via iTunes along with Image Is Everything and Pearly Gates . [5]

Contents

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Hit and Run"1:33
2."Sleepwaking"2:00
3."Rules Don't Apply"1:45
4."Victims and Volunteers"3:11
5."Just Start Shooting"2:09
6."Weight of the World"3:37
7."Punk Isn't Cool Anymore"2:40
8."Domino"3:46
9."Community Leaders"1:32
10."Surrender Your Secrets"2:03
11."(Are You) Happy"1:35
12."Casey"2:16
13."Corporate Bashing"1:25
14."Reprise"0:58

Personnel

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