American Beer (album)

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American Beer
Studio album by Fear
Released	2000
Recorded	2000
Genre	Punk rock
Length	37:11
Label	Hall of Records
Producer	Kevin Oberlin, Lee Ving
Professional reviews
All Music Guide [1]
Fear chronology
Have Another Beer With FEAR (1995) American Beer (2000)

American Beer is the fourth studio album by Fear, released in 2000. Many of the album's tracks were written and recorded during Fear's earlier years, but have not appeared on any prior studio albums.

[edit] Track listing

1. Surgery - 1:21
2. The Bud Club - 2:50
3. (I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man - 2:22
4. Beer:30 - 1.06
5. Catfight - 1:56
6. Beerheads - 2:14
7. Hard "Cotto" Salami - 1:40
8. Another Christmas Beer - 2:28
9. What's Best In Life - 3:05
10. 33rd & 3rd - 4:11
11. What If Gods Not One Of Us - 3:13
12. I Don't Care Without You - 3:43
13. Lost In Los Angeles - 3:10
14. And The Spiders Crawl - 3:44

[edit] Personnel

• Lee Ving: vocals, guitar, harmonica
• Richard Presley: guitar
• Mondo Lopez: bass
• Andrew Jaimez: drums

[edit] Song Analysis

• Surgery was originally titled Mengele (a reference to Josef Mengele, the infamous Nazi doctor) and was performed live numerous times by the band in the 1980s, including during a performance on New Wave Theater.
• The Bud Club was originally titled Budweiser and appeared on the bootleg of the same name.
• Hootchie Cootchie Man was originally made famous by Muddy Waters, but was also performed by Fear in 1983 on the Get Crazy soundtrack.
• Catfight was written by original guitarist Philo Cramer and recorded for the band's unreleased 1979 demo and for 'The Coup d'Etat Lab Band', a one-time recording project of Cramers. It was also performed live many times.
• Hard "Cotto" Salami is a rehashed version of the well-known Fear song Beef Bologna.
• Beer:30 was apparently written in the early 1980s but was never recorded and never or rarely performed live during that time.
• Beerheads was originally entitled Skinheads, and was performed by the band in the early to mid 1990's.

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