Upbeats and Beatdowns

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Upbeats and Beatdowns
Upbeats and Beatdowns cover
Studio album by Five Iron Frenzy
Released November 1996
Recorded 2 – 10 September 1996
at One Way Studio in Concord, CA
Genre Third-wave ska
Length 47:25
Label Five Minute Walk/Warner Bros. Records
Producer(s) Masaki Liu
Professional reviews

All Music Guide 3/5 stars link
Five Iron Frenzy chronology
It's Funny but Not Very Creative
(1996)		 Upbeats and Beatdowns
(1996)		 Our Newest Album Ever!
(1997)


Upbeats and Beatdowns is the first full-length album of the band Five Iron Frenzy. It was released April 8, 1997 on Five Minute Walk, under the SaraBellum imprint, with distribution from Warner Bros. Records.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Old West" – 2:20
  2. "Where the Zero Meets the Fifteen" – 3:04
  3. "Cool Enough For You" – 3:45
  4. "Anthem" – 2:43
  5. "Faking Life" – 2:49
  6. "Shut Up" – 0:04
  7. "Arnold and Willis and Mr. Drummond" – 2:36
  8. "I Feel Lucky" – 3:18
  9. "Milestone" – 3:12
  10. "Beautiful America" – 3:43
  11. "Combat Chuck" – 2:09
  12. "Amalgamate" – 2:58
  13. "Everywhere I Go" – 2:16
  14. "A Flowery Song" – 3:40
  15. "Third World Think Tank" – 8:42
    • "Combat Chuck's Call"; – 1:42 (hidden track)

[edit] Personnel

  • Jamie Awbrey - Rooster Crow on "A Flowery Song"
  • Masaki - says "yah" on "Beautiful America"
  • Edith Bunker - Background vocals on "I Feel Lucky"

[edit] Miscellanea

  • The liner notes for "Old West" emplore us to learn from the Sand Creek and Meeker Massacres.
  • According to the Five iron Frenzy MySpace blog, "Milestone" is often given the title "Nintendo" due to an incorrectly-named mp3 distributed on file-sharing networks.

[edit] External links

Five Iron Frenzy
Reese Roper - Keith Hoerig - Micah Ortega - Dennis Culp - Andrew Verdecchio - Leanor "Jeff" Ortega - Nathanael "Brad" Dunham - Sonnie Johnson - Scott Kerr
Discography
Studio albums and EPs: All the Hype That Money Can Buy - Brad Is Dead - Five Iron Frenzy 2: Electric Boogaloo - It's Funny, but Not Very Creative - Miniature Golf Courses of America - Our Newest Album Ever! - Quantity Is Job 1 - The End Is Near - Upbeats and Beatdowns
Live albums: Proof That the Youth Are Revolting - The End Is Here
B-Sides: Cheeses...(of Nazareth)
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