Who Are We Living For?

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Who Are We Living For?
Who Are We Living For? cover
Studio album by Dispatch
Released October 10, 2000, November 9, 2004
Recorded December 1999 - May 2000
Genre Rock
Label Bomber Records (Original Release), Universal Records (2004 Release)
Producer Dispatch
Professional reviews
Dispatch chronology
Four-Day Trials
(1999)		 Who Are We Living For?
(2000)		 Gut the Van
(2001)

Who Are We Living For? is a 2000 album by United States indie/roots folk band Dispatch. Their fourth and last studio album, it represented a major departure from past recordings. Unlike the first album, Silent Steeples, it is electric; unlike the second, Bang Bang, many of its songs express Music and Politics. Specifically, Open Up, Time Served, Passerby, and Blood have clear political undertones. This could be seen as foreshadowing for the development of Dispatch member Chad Urmston's post-Dispatch music career (as frontman for State Radio).

In the album's booklet credits, the band members are referred to under their Dispatch aliases. Thus, Chad Urmston is "Chetro", Brad Corrigan is "Braddigan", and Pete Francis Heimbold is "Repete." The cover and case art of the album was done by William Quigley.

In 2004, Universal Records re-released Who Are We Living For with four additional tracks. They were added to end, making the album 21 tracks long. "Bulls on Parade" is a cover of the 1996 Rage Against the Machine single.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Everybody Clap" (Dispatch)
  2. "Open Up" (Urmston)
  3. "Just Like Larry" (Urmston and Heimbold)
  4. "Time Served" (Urmston)
  5. "Even" (Urmston)
  6. "Passerby" (Urmston and Heimbold)
  7. "Carry You" (Heimbold)
  8. "D. Bits" (Corrigan)
  9. "How Now" (Dispatch)
  10. "Lightning" (Heimbold)
  11. "Granite" (Urmston)
  12. "Prince of Spades" (Corrigan)
  13. "Parade Speed" (Dispatch)
  14. "Headlights" (Heimbold)
  15. "Blood" (Corrigan)
  16. "10 Ft., 5 Ft., Bag 'Em" (Dispatch)
  17. "Douggie Mayu's" (Dispatch)
  18. "Gone" (Urmston) *
  19. "Spades" [Acoustic] (Corrigan) *
  20. "Bulls on Parade" (Tim Commerford, Zack de la Rocha, Tom Morello, Brad Wilk) *
  21. "5/4" (Dispatch) *

Tracks 1, 8, 9, 11, 13, 16, and 17 are instrumental tracks.

* Tracks 18-21 are bonus tracks that are available on the 2004 re-release by Universal Records. [1]

[edit] Personnel

Dispatch

Chad Urmston - vocals, guitar, percussion, trombone, bass guitar
Pete Heimbold - vocals, bass, guitar, slide bass
Brad Corrigan - vocals, drums, percussion, guitar, piano, harmonica
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Dispatch
Chad Urmston | Pete Francis | Brad Corrigan
Albums
Silent Steeples | Bang Bang | Four-Day Trials | Who Are We Living For?
Live Albums
DVD's
Under the Radar | The Last Dispatch | Dispatch: Zimbabwe – Live at Madison Square Garden
Notable Concerts
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