Pin Points and Gin Joints

Pin Points and Gin Joints
Studio album by The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Released December 8, 2009
Recorded November 2008-July 2009
Genre Ska punk
Length 48:23
Label Big Rig
Producer Ted Hutt
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones chronology
Medium Rare
(2007)		 Pin Points and Gin Joints
(2009)		 The Magic of Youth
(2011)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Alternative Press [1]
The Milk Carton [2]

Pin Points and Gin Joints is the eighth studio album by The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, which was released on December 8, 2009.[3] It is their first album of all new material in seven years, since the release of A Jackknife to a Swan in 2002, the longest gap between albums in The Mighty Mighty Bosstones' career. Pin Points and Gin Joints was produced by Ted Hutt, famous for working with other bands such as The Bouncing Souls, Flogging Molly, and The Gaslight Anthem. Recording and writing sessions for the album lasted from November 2008 to July 2009, making it the longest time The Mighty Mighty Bosstones have ever spent recording an album.

Contents

Background

Joe Gittleman described the band's approach to the album in an interview: "We really want to make a fun, upbeat record with a lot of cool ska stuff. Songs I look forward to playing at shows." Dicky Barrett added that the songs reflect his "skewed and slightly distorted look at our world and life in general."[4]

The Bosstones announced that they were working on an album on November 4, 2008, via a MySpace blog with two songs, "The Impossible Dream" and "Next to Nothing" streaming on the page.[5] The band announced the completion of tracking on July 29.[6] On October 16, 2009, the band announced the album's title along with a free download of one the songs titled "Graffiti Worth Reading".

Track listing

  1. "Graffiti Worth Reading" (2:43)
  2. "Nah, Nah, Nah, Nah, Nah" (2:21)
  3. "The Route That I Took" (3:03)
  4. "You Left Right?" (3:42)
  5. "Too Many Stars" (2:25)
  6. "Your Life" (3:36)
  7. "I Wrote It" (3:37)
  8. "Not to Me on That Night" (3:18)
  9. "Wasted Summers" (3:18)
  10. "Sister Mary" (3:31)
  11. "It Will Be" (3:22)
  12. "The Death Valley Vipers" (4:15)
  13. "The Bricklayer's Story" (2:50)
  14. "A Pretty Sad Excuse" (6:22)[Early working title was "Disappointment/Back There (Someone Understands)"][7]
  15. "Feeling Today" (Exclusive Vinyl Track)

Unreleased

The following are songs written/recorded during sessions for Pin Points and Gin Joints but did not end up on the album.

References

  1. ^ Alternative Press review
  2. ^ The Milk Carton review
  3. ^ http://www.interpunk.com/item.cfm?Item=174770
  4. ^ http://www.jimsullivanink.com/content/view/1538/38/
  5. ^ http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=12576182&blogID=446395091
  6. ^ http://twitter.com/mmbosstones/statuses/2921310742
  7. ^ http://i332.photobucket.com/albums/m346/gittleman5/photo.jpg
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones

Dicky Barrett · Tim "Johnny Vegas" Burton · Ben Carr · Joe Gittleman · 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) · Pin Points and Gin Joints (2009) · The Magic of Youth (2011)
EPs and other releases
Singles
"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!"