Medium Rare (The Mighty Mighty Bosstones album)

Medium Rare
Compilation album by the Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Released	December 18, 2007
Genre	Ska punk
Length	40:46
Label	Big Rig
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones chronology
A Jackknife to a Swan (2002) Medium Rare (2007) Pin Points and Gin Joints (2009)

Medium Rare is a compilation album by the Mighty Mighty Bosstones, released on December 18, 2007, on Big Rig Records. ^[1] It contains three new songs, nine previously unreleased tracks and some rare B-sides. ^[2] This is also the band's first release since they went on hiatus in 2003.

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Track listing

All songs were written and composed by Dicky Barrett and Joe Gittleman.

1. "This List" - 4:21
2. "The Meaning" - 2:34
3. "Don't Worry Desmond Dekker" - 3:38
4. "To California" - 3:11
5. "The One with the Woes All Over It" - 2:59
6. "So Many Ways" - 2:36
7. "A Reason to Toast" - 2:58
8. "Who's Fooling Who?" - 2:33
9. "Katie" - 3:10
10. "This Time of Year" - 2:17
11. "Chocolate Pudding" - 3:01
12. "Is It?" - 2:52
13. "Favorite Records" - 4:36

Song information

• "This List", "Don't Worry Desmond Dekker" and "The One with the Woes All Over It" are brand new songs, recorded and produced by the Bosstones during the fall of 2007.
• "The Meaning" and "Favorite Records" are B-sides from the Pay Attention sessions (2000). "The Meaning" was released as a vinyl bonus track on Pay Attention while "Favorite Records" is previously unreleased. It seems to be a song about Phil Spector ^{[ citation needed ]}.
• "To California" and "Katie" are previously unreleased tracks from A Jackknife to a Swan sessions (2002).
• "Is It?", "So Many Ways" and "Who's Fooling Who?" are B-sides from the Let's Face It sessions (1997). "Is It?" appears on "The Impression That I Get" (Australian/UK) single (1997) and The Rascal King (US) 7" single (1998). "So Many Ways" appears on the second UK The Impression That I Get single (1997). An alternate version of "Who's Fooling Who?" appears on the compilation CD Mashin' Up the Nation, Best of American Ska Volumes 3 & 4 (1998).
• "This Time of Year" and "A Reason to Toast" were originally recorded in 2001 (along with other songs that would later appear on A Jackknife to a Swan). "This Time of Year" originally appears on a promotional Bosstones CD given out during the 2001 Hometown Throwdown and A Santa Cause: It's a Punk Rock Christmas (2003). An extended version of "A Reason to Toast" appears on an EP split with Madcap (2001).
• "Chocolate Pudding" was a B-side from the Question the Answers sessions (1994). It originally appears as a bonus track on Question the Answers (Japanese import version), the "Kinder Words" single (1994), and the Here We Go Again EP (1995).

Personnel

• Dicky Barrett - lead vocals
• Tim "Johnny Vegas" Burton - saxophone
• Ben Carr - manager and "Bosstone", vocals
• Joe Gittleman - bass, background vocals
• Lawrence Katz - guitar, background vocals
• Joe Sirois - drums
• Chris Rhodes - trombone
• Roman Fleysher - saxophone
• Nate Albert - guitar, background vocals
• Dennis Brockenborough - trombone
• Kevin Lenear - saxophone
• Dave Aaronoff - keyboards, background vocals

References

1. "Upcoming Bosstones disc due out on Big Rig Records in December". www.punknews.org. October 29, 2007.
2. "Mighty Mighty Bosstones to record new music for upcoming collection". www.punknews.org. October 26, 2007.