Two Lefts Don't Make a Right...but Three Do

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Two Lefts Don't Make a Right...but Three Do
Studio album by Relient K
Released	March 11, 2003
Recorded	Yellow Studios
Genre	Christian rock Christian pop Pop punk
Length	57:08
Label	Gotee Records
Producer(s)	Mark Lee Townsend Matt Thiessen
Relient K chronology
Employee of the Month EP (2002)	Two Lefts Don't Make a Right...but Three Do (2003)	The Vinyl Countdown (2003)

Two Lefts Don't Make a Right...but Three Do (often called Two Lefts) is the third full-length album released by Christian rock band Relient K. It was initially released with four different covers, each one depicting a separate car wreck. In November 2003, a fifth cover was released, which showed all four cars in a junkyard. That is now the only version of the CD still in print, although a very small amount the four original covers can still be found. It was also released as a combo pack with Deck the Halls, Bruise Your Hand. The album peaked at #38 on the Billboard 200.

Two Lefts Don't Make a Right...but Three Do was certified Gold on March 21, 2005 by the RIAA for sales in excess of 500,000 in the United States. It has currently sold around 518,000 in the United States. [1] A Gold Edition of this album was released on October 31, 2006. The idea for a Gold Edition of this album came from Gotee Records, who will release a Gold Edition of The Anatomy of the Tongue in Cheek on the same day. The Gold Edition of this album will have remixed and remastered sound so that it will be on par with that of Mmhmm, and it will be enhanced with a music video for the song "Chap Stick, Chapped Lips, and Things Like Chemistry".

[edit] Track listing

All songs written by Matt Thiessen

1. "Chap Stick, Chapped Lips, and Things Like Chemistry" – 3:10
2. "Mood Rings" – 3:18
3. "Falling Out" – 3:51
4. "Forward Motion" – 3:57
5. "In Love with the 80s (Pink Tux to the Prom)" – 3:08
6. "College Kids" – 3:27
7. "Trademark" – 3:54
8. "Hoopes I Did It Again" – 3:12
9. "Over Thinking" – 4:08
10. "I Am Understood?" – 4:23
11. "Getting Into You" – 3:24
12. "Kids On The Street" – 0:26
13. "Gibberish" – 1:45
14. "From End To End" – 4:37
15. "Jefferson Aero Plane" – 10:20

[edit] Credits

• Matt Thiessen – lead vocals, guitar, piano
• Matt Hoopes – guitar, backing vocals
• Brian Pittman – bass
• Dave Douglas – drums, backing vocals

[edit] Notes and Trivia

• The version of "Jefferson Aero Plane" found here is a new recording of "Jefferson Airplane", which can be found on The Creepy EP. The song was named after the band Jefferson Airplane, but intentionally spelled differently from the band's name, like Relient K, as well as the song "Maybe Its Maybeline". ("Aeroplane" is the correct spelling in British English.)
• There is a hidden track at the end of "Jefferson Aero Plane" entitled "Silly Shoes". It starts about two minutes after the song ends, at 7:19. MC Defenseless, the rapper on the hidden track, is Kevan Peden, a friend of band member Matt Thiessen. Thiessen is the other voice on the track.
• Dave Douglas sings back and forth with Matt Thiessen on the first verse of "Hoopes I Did It Again".
• Dave Douglas sings some solos in the song "I Am Understood?". He sings the second half of the first verse, beginning with the line, "And sometimes, I'm so thankful for your loyalty." He also sings some solo parts for the ending of the song, along with Matt Thiessen ("The noise has broken my defense...").
• A tentative track listing for the album originally included the song "More Than Useless", which was instead saved for the album Mmhmm.
• Matt Thiessen said that the album's title was originally just Two Lefts Don't Make a Right, but the band decided to add something more onto the title.
• The four special album covers were not the band's idea, but rather that of Gotee Records.
• The song "Gibberish" contains every letter of the alphabet.
• The "Jeremy" mentioned in the first line of "In Love with the 80s (Pink Tux to the Prom)" is Matt Thiessen's brother, not the drummer Jeremy Thiessen of the band downhere, who is not related.
• At the beginning of the song "Hoopes I Did It Again", after the cell phone ring in the first verse, the two voices conversing in the call are that of Matt Thiessen and Dave Douglas.
• The intro to "Trademark" is played during the big reveal on an episode of the television show Pimp My Ride.
• If you look into the top right hand corner of the album cover, you can see a little person in the crane. That person is supposed to be Matt Hoopes.

Relient K
Matt Thiessen – Matt Hoopes – Dave Douglas – John Warne – Jon Schneck
Former: Todd Frescone - Stephen Cushman - Jared Byers - Brian Pittman
Discography
Albums: Relient K – The Anatomy of the Tongue in Cheek – Two Lefts Don't Make a Right...but Three Do – Mmhmm – Five Score and Seven Years Ago
EPs: 2000 A.D.D. – The Creepy EP – Employee of the Month EP – The Vinyl Countdown – Apathetic EP
Other: All Work and No Play (Demo) – Open Mic Karaoke: Relient K, Vol. 1 (Karaoke CD) – Deck the Halls, Bruise Your Hand (Christmas CD)
Selected singles: "My Girlfriend" – "Pressing On" – "Sadie Hawkins Dance" – "The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything" – "Chap Stick, Chapped Lips, and Things Like Chemistry" – "Be My Escape" – "Who I Am Hates Who I've Been" – "High of 75" – "Must Have Done Something Right" – "Forgiven"