No Gods, No Managers
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| No Gods, No Managers | ||
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| Studio album by Choking Victim | ||
| Released | March 30, 1999 | |
| Recorded | March - April 1998 | |
| Genre | Ska punk | |
| Length | 41 min 40 s | |
| Label | Hellcat | |
| Producer(s) | Mike Trujillo | |
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No Gods, No Managers is a music album by ska punk band Choking Victim. The album was released in 1999 through Hellcat / Epitaph Records and re-released on LP format by Epitaph in 2004. Being the sole full-length album of Choking Victim, it became hugely popular in the punk scene. It inspired many nascent bands, and the band members of Choking Victim went on to form other bands, most notably Leftöver Crack.
The tone of the album is largely dark and pessimistic, with lyrics and artwork containing Satanic imagery. The cover does not contain a barcode, presumably in accordance with their staunch anti-capitalist message, and is decorated with various satanic and anti-Christian symbols. However, a later pressing includes a barcode on the back cover.
[edit] Track listing
- 500 Channels - 2:40
- In Hell - 2:05
- Crack Rock Steady - 3:04
- Suicide (A Better Way) - 2:53
- In My Grave - 2:48
- Fucked Reality - 2:28
- Money - 3:32
- Hate Yer State - 2:50
- Fuck America - 2:19
- War Story - 2:53
- Five-Finger Discount - 2:32
- Praise to the Sinners - 2:11
- Living the Laws - 9:19
Plus a ska-themed version of "Crack Rock Steady" at the end of track 13 dubbed "Ska Rock Steady"
[edit] Personnel
- Band members:
- Mike Trujillo (Producer, Mixing)
- Choking Victim (Producer, Mixing)
- Geoff Sykes (Mastering)
- Mike Dy (Mixing Assistant)
- Phil Kaffel (Engineer)
- John Srebalus (Assistant Engineer)
- Eric Drooker (Artwork)
[edit] Trivia
The song 'Fuck America' features the lyrics 'the trade center is bombed and the FBI is pissed so they act the good Americans, blaming Muslim terrorists' even though the song was released 2 years before the 9/11 attacks, and probably written a good few years before it made it to record.
--Lyrics refer to the prior bombing of the WTC. Not the one that ultimately caused its demise.
The quotations heard on several tracks are recordings of Michael Parenti, an award winning leftist political and historical writer.
