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
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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