Spy Rock Road

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Spy Rock Road
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Studio album by
ReleasedMay 1989
Recorded1988–1989 at Sergay's Recording Emporium in Berkeley, California; Sound and Vision in San Francisco; Dancing Dog Studios in Emeryville, California
Genre Punk rock
Length32:49
Label Lookout! (LK 018)
Producer Kevin Army and The Lookouts
The Lookouts chronology
One Planet One People
(1987)
Spy Rock Road
(1989)
Mendocino Homeland
(1989)
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Spy Rock Road is the second and final studio album by the American punk rock band The Lookouts. It was released in 1989 through Lookout! Records

Contents

Track listing

  1. "That Girl's from Outer Space" - 2:29
  2. "Wild" - 3:37
  3. "Alienation" - 4:35
  4. "Generation" - 2:25
  5. "The Green Hills of England" - 3:34
  6. "Living Behind Bars" - 1:58
  7. "Red Sea" - 3:06
  8. "Sonny Boy" - 1:17
  9. "Trees" - 5:11
  10. "Life" - 3:32
  11. "Friends" - 1:31

Personnel

Additional performers

Production

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