Let's Face It

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Let's Face It
Let's Face It cover
Studio album by The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Released March 11, 1997
Recorded ???
Genre Ska punk
Length 33:21
Label Mercury Records
Producer Paul Q. Kolderie,
Sean Slade
Professional reviews
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones chronology
Question the Answers
(1994)		 Let's Face It
(1997)		 Live from the Middle East
(1998)

Let's Face It is an album by The Mighty Mighty Bosstones. It was released on March 11, 1997 by Mercury Records. This album sold very well due to the success of its single "The Impression That I Get", which reached #1 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart. Also faring well were the album's other two singles, "Royal Oil" (#3) and "The Rascal King" (#7). The album itself reached #27 on the Billboard 200 (the only Bosstones' album to crack the Top 50).

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Noise Brigade" (Dicky Barrett, Dennis Brockenborough, Joe Gittleman, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones) - 2:16
  2. "The Rascal King" (Barret, Gittleman, Bosstones) - 2:46
  3. "Royal Oil" (Barrett, Nate Albert, Bosstones) - 2:39
  4. "The Impression That I Get" (Barrett, Gittleman, Bosstones) - 3:15
  5. "Let's Face It" (Barrett, Albert, Bosstones) - 2:39
  6. "That Bug Bit Me" (Barrett, Albert, Bosstones) - 2:09
  7. "Another Drinkin' Song" (Barrett, Gittleman, Bosstones) - 3:50
  8. "Numbered Days" (Barrett, Albert, Bosstones) - 3:10
  9. "Break So Easily" (Barret, Brockenborough, Bosstones) - 2:45
  10. "Nevermind Me" (Barrett, Gittleman, Bosstones) - 3:21
  11. "Desensitized" (Barrett, Tim Burton, Bosstones) - 2:04
  12. "1-2-8" (Barrett, Gittleman, Bosstones) - 2:39
  13. "Wrong Thing Right Then" (appears on Big Rig 12" vinyl edition - previously available on the soundtrack to Meet the Deedles)

[edit] Personnel

  • Dicky Barrett – vocals, artwork
  • Nate Albert – guitar
  • Joe Gittleman – bass guitar
  • Joe Sirois – drums
  • Tim Burton – saxophone
  • Kevin Lenear – saxophone
  • Dennis Brockenborough – trombone
  • Ben Carr – Bosstone
  • Paul Q. Kolderie – production
  • Sean Slade – production

[edit] Trivia

  • The inspiration for "The Rascal King" was James Michael Curley, a politician from Boston, Massachusetts "[1]
  • The vinyl version of this album includes a bonus track, "Wrong Thing Right Then" which originally appeared on the soundtrack to the 1997 film, Meet The Deedles.
  • "The Impression That I Get" was featured in the drumming video game Donkey Konga as well as Taiko Drum Master.
v • d • e
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Dicky Barrett · Tim "Johnny Vegas" Burton · Ben Carr · Joe Gittleman "the Bass Fiddleman" · Lawrence Katz · Joe Sirois · Chris Rhodes · Kevin Lenear
Nate Albert · Dennis Brockenborough · Josh Dalsimer · Roman Fleysher · Tim Bridewell
Discography
Studio albums
Devil's Night Out (1989) · More Noise and Other Disturbances (1992) · Don't Know How to Party (1993) · Question the Answers (1994) · Let's Face It (1997) · Pay Attention (2000) · A Jackknife to a Swan (2002)
EPs and other releases
Singles
"Where'd You Go?" · "Someday I Suppose" · "Don't Know How to Party" · "A Man Without" · "Almost Anything Goes"  · "Last Dead Mouse" · "Detroit Rock City" · "Kinder Words" · "Pictures to Prove It" · "Hell of a Hat" · "The Impression That I Get"  · "The Rascal King" · "Royal Oil" · "Wrong Thing Right Then" · "Every Trick in the Book" · "So Sad to Say" · "She Just Happened" · "Fabled Barney and the Population" · "You Gotta Go!"