Just the Best Party

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Just the Best Party
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Studio album by
Released2002 April 02nd
Recorded2001 Summer
StudioVibromonk Records, Brooklyn NY [1]
Genre Punk Cabaret
Length31:46
Label Gern Blandsten
Producer The World/Inferno Friendship Society
The World/Inferno Friendship Society chronology
East Coast Super Sound Punk of Today!
(2000)
Just the Best Party
(2002)
(Hallowmas: Live at Northsix) & Red-Eyed Soul
((2003) & 2006)
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Just the Best Party is the second studio album by The World/Inferno Friendship Society. It was released on April 2, 2002 on Gern Blandsten Records. It is referred to by the band as 'Inferno #8', as it is the eighth release of new material by the band. The first six songs on the album originally appeared on the International Smashism! EP and two other songs, "I Wouldn't Want to Live in a World Without Grudges" and "All the World Is a Stage (Dive)", are re-recorded versions of songs that originally appeared on the "I Wouldn't Want to Live in a World Without Grudges" single.

Contents

The album includes a three-song cycle about love and loss in a temporary autonomous zone. The lyric pattern and subject matter of the song cycle are similar to The Wild Party written by poet and essayist Joseph Moncure March.

Track listing

  1. "Zen and the Art of Breaking Everything in This Room" 2:45
  2. "My Ancestral Homeland, New Jersey" 2:03
  3. "Heart Attack '64" 2:30
  4. "Secret Service Freedom Fighting U.S.A." 2:51
  5. "Friend to the Friendless" 3:48
  6. "Peter Lorre" 1:36
  7. "I Wouldn't Want to Live in a World Without Grudges" 2:53
  8. "Just the Best Party" 2:46
  9. "Go with it Girl" 2:56
  10. "The Naughty Little Rat Makes New Friends" 1:44
  11. "Stay on the Charming Side of Drunk" 2:50
  12. "All the World Is a Stage (Dive)" 3:04

Credits

Recorded by – Danny Shatzky, [2] and Tamir Muskat

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References

  1. Discogs ~ Just the best Party
  2. Discogs ~ Danny Schatzky דני שצקי