Swain's First Bike Ride

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Swain's First Bike Ride
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Original vinyl cover
Studio album by
Released1991
RecordedDecember 1990-January 1991
StudioSound and Vision Studios in San Francisco and Dancing Dog Studios in Emeryville, California
Genre Punk rock
Length40:10
54:29 (CD version)
Label Lookout (LK 040)
Producer Kevin Army
Andy Ernst (CD bonus tracks)
Fifteen chronology
Swain's First Bike Ride
(1991)
The Choice of a New Generation
(1992)
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Swain's First Bike Ride is the debut studio album by the Berkeley, California-based punk rock band Fifteen. It was originally released on vinyl in 1991 through Lookout Records [1] with the catalog number LK 040. The songs can generally be described as mid-tempo punk rock with pop sensibilities. The album also has quite a few love songs (including "C#(tion)", which was covered by Green Day, and "Sweet Valentine"), which was something that was phased out on later albums. The record closes with Fifteen's only piano ballad, "The End", which is often considered to be one of the band's best songs. The album's CD edition, released on February 10, 1992, contains the band's self-titled EP from the previous year as bonus tracks. The album was re-released in 2017 by Dead Broke Records on vinyl, CD, and digitally.

Contents

Track listing

All tracks are written by Jeff Ott, except where noted

Side one
No.TitleLength
1."Intentions"3:50
2."Definition"4:25
3."C#(tion)"4:06
4."Someday" (lyrics by Jack Curran; music by Ott and Curran)4:17
5."Alienation"3:25
Side two
No.TitleLength
6."Implications"4:17
7."Resolution"4:56
8."Inclination" (lyrics by Jack Curran; music by Ott and Curran)3:02
9."Subdivision"4:24
10."The End"3:25
Total length:40:10
CD bonus tracks (Fifteen EP)
No.TitleLength
11."Liberation" (lyrics by Ott and Ricardo Lopez)2:58
12."Sweet Valentine" (lyrics by Jack Curran; music by Ott and Curran)3:58
13."Devotion" (lyrics by Jack Curran; music by Ott)3:55
14."Imagination" (lyrics by Jack Curran; music by Ott and Curran)3:27
Total length:14:19

Personnel

Production

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References

  1. Twistworthy, Mark (February 2018). "FIFTEEN: Swain's First Bike Ride: LP". Razorcake (102): 84 via Internet Archive.