Keasbey Nights
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- For the 2006 Streetlight Manifesto album of the same name, see Keasbey Nights (Streetlight Manifesto album).
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| Studio album by Catch 22 | ||
| Released | March 24, 1998 | |
| Recorded | 1998 | |
| Genre | Third-wave Ska | |
| Length | 46:13 | |
| Label | Victory Records | |
| Producer(s) | Catch 22, co-produced by Hillary Johnson and James Egan | |
| Professional reviews | ||
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| Catch 22 chronology | ||
| Rules of the Game (1996) |
Keasbey Nights (1998) |
Washed Up! (1999) |
| Tomas Kalnoky chronology | ||
| Rules of the Game (1996) |
Keasbey Nights (1998) |
A Call to Arms (2001) |
Keasbey Nights was the debut full-length release by Catch 22, and it is widely regarded as one of their best albums (most fans view either this or Alone in a Crowd (2000) as their best), as well as one of the defining albums of the third-wave ska explosion in 90s America. It is the only Catch 22 album to feature the original line-up, as Josh Ansley, Tomas Kalnoky and James Egan all left before the Washed Up! EP (1999). The songs are all written by Kalnoky, and contain his own distinctive style, which appears again in Streetlight Manifesto, whose debut Everything Goes Numb (2003) is the second in a (so far uncompleted) trilogy by Kalnoky, of which Keasbey Nights is the first.
According to Josh Ansley, the two people on the album's cover are he and Tomas Kalnoky. Kalnoky is the one in the distance and Ansley is the one holding the gun.
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[edit] Streetlight Manifesto re-make
In March 2006, Streetlight Manifesto, led by old Catch 22 frontman Tomas Kalnoky, released their own version of Keasbey Nights. This was instead of Victory Records' planned re-release of the original with bonus content. When Kalnoky found out about this he was upset and offered to redo it with Streetlight instead. As he states (via Text to speech) at the end of "1234 1234":
If there's one thing I can't stand it's when a CD is re-released untouched sonically, with a new cover, and maybe a live video and kids are duped into buying this new edition of something they already have. I was upset when I was told the guys were going to do this for Keasbey so I offered to re-record it, because I've always thought it sounded like pure garbage sound-wise.
[edit] Track listing
All songs written by Tomas Kalnoky.
- "Dear Sergio" – 2:31
- "Sick and Sad" – 2:21
- "Keasbey Nights" – 3:02
- "Day in Day out" – 3:22
- "Walking Away" – 4:06
- "Giving Up, Giving In" – 2:48
- "On & On & On" – 3:14
- "Riding the Fourth Wave" – 1:50
- Instrumental
- "This One Goes out to…" – 2:35
- "Supernothing" – 2:49
- This song was originally performed by Kalnoky's previous band, Gimp
- "9mm and a Three Piece Suit" – 1:56
- "Kristina She Don't Know I Exist" – 5:10
- "As the Footsteps Die out Forever" – 3:11
- "12341234" – 7:09
- At the end of this song the band do a spoken credits and jamming session, the "actual" song finishes at roughly – 4:05
[edit] Personnel
- Josh Ansley - Bass Guitar, Vocals
- Sean Bonner - Construction
- Alan Douches - Mastering
- Jamie Egan - Co-Producing, Trombone, Flute, French Horn, Irish Tin Whistle, Vocals
- Ryan Eldred - Saxophone, Vocals
- Grace Falconer - Assistant Engineer
- Chris Greer - Drums
- Kevin Gunther - Trumpet, Vocals
- Hillary Johnson - Co-Producing, Mixing, Recording [1]
- Tomas Kalnoky - Concept, Guitars, Music, Photography, Vocals, Words
- Augusto F. Menezes - Photography
