Five Lessons Learned
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| Studio album by Swingin' Utters | |||||
| Released | 1998 | ||||
| Recorded | Winter of 1997-98, at Motor Studios, San Francisco, California | ||||
| Genre | Punk rock | ||||
| Length | 38:07 | ||||
| Label | Fat Wreck Chords | ||||
| Producer | Fat Mike, Ryan Greene, Swingin' Utters | ||||
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Five Lessons Learned was the fourth full-length album (not including E.P.s and compilations) by Californian punk rock band Swingin' Utters. Released in 1998, it was their second album on Fat Wreck Chords.
- This album's title track was used on the video game Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2, and it is probably the band's most famous song. "I Need Feedback", however, was the only single released from this album [1].
- "Five Lessons Learned" is mainly an album of short, fast songs in the 'punk revival' style - "I Need Feedback" borrows a riff from The Damned's Neat Neat Neat - but there is also a ska-esque song ("Unpopular Again"), and an Irish folk-style song ("Fruitless Fortunes"), hinting at the band's future direction, and that of the side-project, the Filthy Thievin' Bastards.
- The outer and inner cover art is by photographer Steve Zeigler [2], and features black-and-white shots involving guns, crime and murder scenes (perhaps intended to be Prohibition-era, although, in one picture, the date "2-14-47" is etched in chalk).
- The presence of the head of the label, NOFX's Fat Mike, is felt in that he co-produces and plays bass guitar on "Unpopular Again". Another of the many guest musicians is Chris Shiflett, later of Foo Fighters.
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[edit] Personnel
- Johnny Bonnel (vocals)
- Max Huber (guitars, vocals, bass on track #8, percussion)
- Greg McEntee (drums and percussion)
- Darius Koski (guitar, vocals, accordion, violin, bass on tracks #1, #4 & #5)
[edit] Additional musicians
- John Maurer (bass on tracks #2, #3, #6, #7, #9, #10, #13 & #14)
- Howie Pyro (bass on track #11)
- Fat Mike (bass on track #12)
- Rockin Lloyd Tripp (upright bass on track #15)
- Seth Lorenzi (Hammond and Vox organs, electric piano)
- Max Butler (mandolin)
- Chris Shiflett (lead guitar on tracks #8 and #11
- Ryan Greene (tambourine on track #12)
- Spike Slawson (backup vocals on tracks #5 and #8)
- Morty Okin (trumpet) [3]
- Van Hughes (trombone)
- David Murotake (tenor saxophone)
- Tom Griesser (baritone saxophone)
[edit] Track listing
- "Five Lessons Learned" (Koski/Aust Koski) – 1:55
- "Tell Me Lies" (Huber) – 2:09
- "A Promise to Distinction" (Koski) – 2:08
- "The Stooge" (Koski) – 3:27
- "(The) Picture's Perfect" (Huber) – 2:37
- "This Bastard's Life" (Huber) – 3:05
- "As You Start Leaving" (Koski) – 2:44
- "I Need Feedback" (Huber) – 3:27
- "Good People" (Koski) – 2:18
- "As Sure as I'm down" (Bonnel) – 2:01
- "Untitled 21" (Huber) – 2:36
- "Unpopular Again" (Huber) – 3:16
- "New Day Rising" (Koski) – 1:49
- "Two Jacks Shitty" (Bonnel) – 1:43
- "Fruitless Fortunes" (Koski) – 2:52
