Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Eyes
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| Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Eyes | ||
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| Studio album by AFI | ||
| Released | November 11, 1997 | |
| Genre | Hardcore punk | |
| Length | 28:35 | |
| Label | Nitro Records | |
| Producer(s) | AFI | |
| AFI chronology | ||
|---|---|---|
| Bombing the Bay (1997) |
Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Eyes (1997) |
Black Sails in the Sunset (1999) |
Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Eyes is a 1997 hardcore punk album by AFI, released on Nitro Records.
This is the first AFI release with Hunter Burgan playing bass guitar.
[edit] Track listing
- "Keeping Out of Direct Sunlight (An Introduction) " – 0:58
- "Three Reasons" – 1:33
- "A Single Second"(w/Nick 13 of Tiger Army) – 2:12
- "pH Low" – 1:42
- "Let It Be Broke" – 2:06
- "Third Season" – 2:49
- "Lower Your Head and Take it in the Body" – 1:46
- "Coin Return" – 2:33
- "The New Patron Saints and Angels" – 2:17
- "Three Seconds Notice" – 1:35
- "Salt For Your Wounds" – 2:24
- "Today's Lesson" – 2:14 (Filth cover)
- "The Devil Loves You" – 1:30
- "Triple Zero" – 2:50
The vinyl release also features a cover of The Misfits' Last Caress.
[edit] Miscellanea
The introduction song's lyrics contain the words A Fire Inside, a common expansion of the band's acronym-name.
The album's track layout is unique in that it contains repeated references to the number 3. Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Eyes is AFI's third album, and the songs containing variations of the number 3 in their titles are three tracks apart. The use of the number 3 would go on to be a recurring theme in subsequent albums.
On the inner-edge of the CD case is a hidden message:
"A Fire Inside"
