The Streets of San Francisco (album)

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The Streets of San Francisco
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Studio album by
ReleasedMay 8, 1995 (CD/LP)
October 23, 2001 (CD re-release)
RecordedArt of Ears , Hayward, California, in one week of August 1994
Genre
Length42:08
Label New Red Archives (CD/LP 1995)
Fat Wreck Chords (CD 2001)
Producer Lars Frederiksen
Swingin' Utters chronology
No Eager Men
(1993)
The Streets of San Francisco
(1995)
The Sounds Wrong EP
(1995)

The Streets of San Francisco is the second full-length album by American punk rock band Swingin' Utters, released in 1995. It was produced by Lars Frederiksen of Rancid. All songs were newly recorded for the album, although several had been on the band's previous releases.

Contents

The original LP was issued by New Red Archives and released on at least four different colors of vinyl: orange, yellow, purple and blue.

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Track listing

All songs written by Darius Koski, except where noted.

  1. "Storybook Disease" - 2:22
  2. "Jackie Jab" (Johnny Bonnel/Koski/Kevin Wickersham) - 1:44
  3. "Tied Down, Spit On" - 1:19
  4. "Teenage Genocide" (Koski/Wickersham) - 1:39
  5. "Catastrophe" - 4:53
  6. "Mr. Believer" - 2:23
  7. "Well Wisher" - 1:22
  8. "No Place in the Sun" (Bonnel/Koski)- 2:29
  9. "(A) Petty Wage" - 1:59
  10. "Come On!" (Joel Dison) - 1:34
  11. "No Eager Men" - 2:46
  12. "(A) Beached Sailor" - 2:08
  13. "(Take Me to the) Riverbank" - 2:29
  14. "Just Like Them" (Bonnel/Koski) - 1:47
  15. "Stars and Starlets" (Bonnel/Koski) - 1:15
  16. "Soldier Boy" - 2:17
  17. "Last Chance" - 1:51
  18. "All Laced Up (But Pitfallen)" (Bonnel/Dison/Koski) - 2:45
  19. "Expletive Deleted" - 3:06

Personnel

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