Pay Attention

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Pay Attention
Pay Attention cover
Studio album by The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Released May 2, 2000
Recorded 1999-2000
Genre Ska-Core
Length 51:08
Label Island Def Jam Records
Professional reviews
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones chronology
Live from the Middle East
(1998)
Pay Attention
(2000)
A Jackknife to a Swan
(2002)

Pay Attention is an album by The Mighty Mighty Bosstones. It was released on May 2, 2000 by Island Def Jam Records.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Let Me Be"
  2. "The Skeleton Song"
  3. "All Things Considered"
  4. "So Sad To Say"
  5. "Allow Them"
  6. "High School Dance"
  7. "Over the Eggshells"
  8. "She Just Happened"
  9. "Finally"
  10. "I Know More"
  11. "Riot on Broad Street"
  12. "One Million Reasons"
  13. "Bad News and Bad Breaks"
  14. "Temporary Trip"
  15. "Where You Come From"
  16. "The Day He Didn't Die"
  17. "Meaning" (appears only on Big Rig double 12" vinyl edition)
  18. "The Skeleton Song (Demo)" (appears only on Big Rig double 12" vinyl edition)
  19. "Simmer Down (Live)" (appears only on Big Rig double 12" vinyl edition)
  20. "New England Memories" (appears only on Big Rig double 12" vinyl edition)
  21. "Together" (appears on Australian edition - previously available on the Toe Tapping Treats promotional EP)
  22. "Just As Much" (appears on Australian edition - previously available on the Toe Tapping Treats promotional EP)

[edit] Personnel

  • Dicky Barrett – vocals
  • Nate Albert – guitar
  • Joe Gittleman – bass guitar
  • Joe Sirois – drums
  • Tim Burton – saxophone
  • Roman Fleysher – saxophone
  • Dennis Brockenborough – trombone
  • Ben Carr – Bosstone

[edit] Notes/Trivia

  • This was the last album recorded with guitarist Nate Albert, trombonist Dennis Brockenborough, and the first with Roman Fleysher on saxophone. It was also the band's last on a major label.
  • "So Sad To Say", the first single off this album, made its debut at Fenway Park on the big screen on Opening Day, 2000.