Yesterdays (Pennywise album)

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Yesterdays
Pennywise - Yesterdays.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedJuly 15, 2014
Recorded1989 (bonus track "Band Practice 89")
2013–2014 (rest of the album)
Genre Punk rock [1]
Length43:03
Label Epitaph
Pennywise chronology
All or Nothing
(2012)
Yesterdays
(2014)
Never Gonna Die
(2018)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 65/100 [2]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [3]
Exclaim! 6/10 [4]

Yesterdays is the eleventh studio album by the American punk rock band Pennywise, which was released on July 15, 2014. It contains previously unrecorded compositions (with the exception of "No Way Out" and "Slowdown", which appeared on 1989's A Word from the Wise and 1993's Unknown Road respectively) by their late bassist Jason Thirsk. [5] Yesterdays is also Pennywise's first album with singer Jim Lindberg after he left the band in 2009 and returned in 2012. [6] "Violence Never Ending" was released to radio on June 23, 2014. [7]

Contents

Track listing

All tracks are written by Pennywise

No.TitleLength
1."What You Deserve"2:47
2."Restless Time"1:26
3."Noise Pollution"3:18
4."Violence Never Ending"1:59
5."Am Oi!"2:11
6."Thanksgiving"2:52
7."She's a Winner"3:22
8."Slowdown"3:03
9."Public Defender"2:10
10."No Way Out"2:44
11."I Can Remember"3:44
Total length:29:36
Deluxe edition
No.TitleLength
12."Band Practice 89" (Band practice of some of the songs contained on album)13:38
Total length:43:14

Personnel

Pennywise

Additional

Charts

Chart performance for Yesterdays
Chart (2014)Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA) [8] 16
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [9] 124
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [10] 41
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [11] 52
US Billboard 200 [12] 62
US Independent Albums (Billboard) [13] 9

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