Sumo Surprise

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Sumo Surprise
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Studio album by Ghoti Hook
Released August 30, 1996
Genre Pop punk, Christian punk
Length45:02
Label Tooth & Nail
Ghoti Hook chronology
Boca Grande
(1995)
Sumo Surprise
(1996)
Banana Man
(1997)
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Sumo Surprise is Ghoti Hook's debut CD on Tooth and Nail Records. The album is a pop punk CD, with a tendency toward both humor and evangelical Christianity.

Ghoti Hook was a Christian punk band from Fairfax, Virginia. The band formed in 1991, signed to Tooth & Nail Records in 1996, and disbanded in 2002.

Pop punk is a genre of rock music that combines influences of pop music with punk rock. Fast tempos, prominent electric guitars with distortion, and power chord changes are typically played under pop-influenced melodies and vocal styles with lighthearted lyrical themes including boredom and teenage romance.

Evangelicalism movement within Protestant Christianity

Evangelicalism, evangelical Christianity, or evangelical Protestantism, is a worldwide, transdenominational movement within Protestant Christianity which maintains the belief that the essence of the Gospel consists of the doctrine of salvation by grace through faith in Jesus Christ's atonement. Evangelicals believe in the centrality of the conversion or "born again" experience in receiving salvation, in the authority of the Bible as God's revelation to humanity, and in spreading the Christian message. The movement has had a long presence in the Anglosphere before spreading further afield in the 19th, 20th and early 21st centuries.

Track listing

  1. Body Juggler 3:00
  2. Seasons 2:56
  3. South Capitol Street 3:27
  4. Ooklah The Punk 2:46
  5. Tract Boy 3:27
  6. Scared Am I 3:37
  7. Samson 3:13
  8. Spice Drops 2:54
  9. Shrinky Dinks 3:49
  10. Money 3:26
  11. Super Sumo 3:01
  12. Knock Knock 3:06
  13. Dry Run 2:43
  14. Never 3:37

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