Trying to Never Catch Up

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Trying to Never Catch Up
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Studio album by What Made Milwaukee Famous
Released August 22 2006
Recorded 2006
Genre Indie rock
Length48:29
Label Barsuk Records
What Made Milwaukee Famous chronology
Trying to Never Catch Up
(2006)
The Sugarhill Sessions EP
(2008)

Trying to Never Catch Up is the first album by the Indie band What Made Milwaukee Famous, originally recorded in 2004 and re-recorded in 2006 with a changeup in the track list and a few new tunes for release on Barsuk Records. [1]

What Made Milwaukee Famous (band)

What Made Milwaukee Famous (WMMF) is an indie rock band from Austin, Texas.

Barsuk Records independent record label based in Seattle, Washington

Barsuk Records is an independent record label based in Seattle, Washington, that was founded by the members of the band This Busy Monster, Christopher Possanza and Josh Rosenfeld, in 1998 to release their band's material. Its logo is a drawing of a dog holding a record in its mouth.

Contents

Track listing

All songs by What Made Milwaukee Famous.

  1. "Idecide" – 4:54
  2. "Mercy, Me" – 3:07
  3. "Hellodrama" – 2:51
  4. "Selling Yourself Short" – 4:13
  5. "The Jeopardy of Contentment" – 4:52
  6. "Almost Always Never" – 4:09
  7. "Hopelist" – 3:25
  8. "Judas" – 3:17
  9. "Trying to Never Catch Up" – 4:19
  10. "Curtains!" – 4:26
  11. "Sweet Lady" – 2:56
  12. "Bldg. a Boat from the Boards in Your Eye" – 6:01

Personnel

Guitar fretted string instrument

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings. It is typically played with both hands by strumming or plucking the strings with either a guitar pick or the finger(s)/fingernails of one hand, while simultaneously fretting with the fingers of the other hand. The sound of the vibrating strings is projected either acoustically, by means of the hollow chamber of the guitar, or through an electrical amplifier and a speaker.

Keyboard instrument class of musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard

A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument played using a keyboard, a row of levers which are pressed by the fingers. The most common of these are the piano, organ, and various electronic keyboards, including synthesizers and digital pianos. Other keyboard instruments include celestas, which are struck idiophones operated by a keyboard, and carillons, which are usually housed in bell towers or belfries of churches or municipal buildings.

Bass guitar Electric bass instrument

The bass guitar is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, except with a longer neck and scale length, and four to six strings or courses.

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References

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  2. "What Made Milwaukee Famous". What Made Milwaukee Famous. 2002. Retrieved 2009-08-26.