Winners Never Quit

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Winners Never Quit
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Studio album by
Released28 March 2000
Recorded1999
Genre Indie rock
Length39:00
Label Jade Tree (JT1046)
Producer David Bazan
Pedro the Lion chronology
The Only Reason I Feel Secure
(1999)
Winners Never Quit
(2000)
Progress
(2000)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 72/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Pitchfork (4.1/10) [3]

Winners Never Quit is the second album by Pedro the Lion. It was released on March 28, 2000, on Jade Tree Records. Although David Bazan played all of the instruments on the album, Trey Many (drums) and Josh Golden (bass) joined Bazan on tour later that year. [4]

Track listing

  1. "Slow and Steady Wins the Race" – 3:44
  2. "Simple Economics" – 4:22
  3. "To Protect the Family Name" – 5:29
  4. "A Mind of Her Own" – 3:56
  5. "Never Leave a Job Half Done" – 3:12
  6. "Eye on the Finish Line" – 4:37
  7. "Bad Things to Such Good People" – 3:24
  8. "Winners Never Quit" – 5:16
    Japanese bonus track:
  9. "Slow and Steady Wins the Race (alternate version with Ben Gibbard)" - 3:20

All songs by David Bazan except #3 (written with Chris Pugmire)

Notes and references

  1. "Winners Never Quit by Pedro The Lion". Metacritic . Retrieved 19 September 2016.
  2. Allmusic review
  3. "Pitchfork Media review". Archived from the original on 2008-10-12. Retrieved 2018-05-21.
  4. "Lazyeye Interview: Pedro the Lion". Tim McMahan. Retrieved May 11, 2007.

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