Medium Rare (album)

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Medium Rare
Medium Rare cover
Compilation album by The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Released December 18, 2007
Recorded 1989 - 2007
Genre Ska-Core
Length Unknown
Label Big Rig Records
Professional reviews
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones chronology
A Jacknife to a Swan
(2002)		 Medium Rare
(2007)

Medium Rare is a compilation album by The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, which was released on December 18th 2007 on Big Rig Records.[1] It contains three new songs, nine previously unreleased tracks, and some rare B-sides.[2] This is also the band's first release since they went on hiatus in 2003.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

  1. "This List"
  2. "The Meaning"
  3. "Don’t Worry Desmond Dekker"
  4. "To California"
  5. "The One With the Woes All Over It"
  6. "So Many Ways"
  7. "Reason To Toast"
  8. "Who’s Foolin' Who?"
  9. "Katie"
  10. "This Time Of Year"
  11. "Chocolate Pudding"
  12. "Is It?"
  13. "Favorite Records"

[edit] Song information

  • "This List", "Don't Worry Desmond Dekker", and "The One With The Woes All Over It" are brand new songs, recorded and produced by the Bosstones during the Fall of 2007.
  • "The Meaning" and "Favorite Records" are b-sides from the Pay Attention sessions (2000). "The Meaning" was releasd as a vinyl bonus track on Pay Attention while "Favorite Records" is previously unreleased.
  • "To California" and "Katie" are previously unreleased tracks from A Jackknife To A Swan sessions (2002).
  • "Is It?", "So Many Ways", and "Who's Fooling Who?" are b-sides from the Let's Face It sessions (1997). "Is It?" appears on the The Impression That I Get (Australian/UK) single (1997) and The Rascal King (US) 7" single (1998). "So Many Ways" appears on the second UK The Impression That I Get single (1997). An alternate version of "Who's Fooling Who?" appears on the compilation CD Mashin' Up The Nation Best Of American Ska Volumes 3 & 4 (1998).
  • "This Time Of Year" and "A Reason To Toast" were originally recorded in 2001 (along with other songs that would later appear on A Jackknife To A Swan). "This Time Of Year" originally appears on a promotional Bosstones CD given out during the 2001 Hometown Throwdown and Santa Clause: It's A Punk Rock Christmas (2003). An extended version of "A Reason To Toast" appears on an EP split with Madcap (2001).
  • "Chocolate Pudding" was a b-side from the Question The Answers sessions (1994). It originally appears as a bonus track on Question The Answers (Japanese, the Kinder Words single (1994), and the Here We Go Again ep (1995).

[edit] Personnel

[edit] References

  1. ^ Punknews.org | Upcoming Bosstones disc due out on Big Rig Records in December
  2. ^ Punknews.org | Mighty Mighty Bosstones to record new music for upcoming collection
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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
EPs and other releases
Where'd You Go? (1991) · Ska-Core, the Devil, and More (1993) · Live from the Middle East (1998) · Medium Rare (2007)
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!"