Rise or Die Trying

Rise or Die Trying
Studio album by Four Year Strong
Released September 18, 2007
Recorded 2007 at Big Sky Audio, Springfield, PA; Philly Sound Studios, Philadelphia, PA;
Genre Melodic hardcore
Pop punk
Label I Surrender
Producer Matt Robnett
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Four Year Strong chronology
It's Our Time (2005) Rise or Die Trying
(2007)		 Explains It All
(2009)

Rise or Die Trying is the second full-length album from Four Year Strong. It hit #31 on the Billboard Heatseekers album charts in 2007. The album was recorded and produced by Matt Robnett of Playwork Productions at Big Sky Audio in Springfield, Pennsylvania. The name "Rise or Die Trying" comes from a lyric to "Go Long Dad", a song from their first album, It's Our Time. The album has sold over 50,000 copies.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "The Take Over" – 1:34
  2. "Prepare to Be Digitally Manipulated" – 3:07
  3. "Abandon Ship or Abandon All Hope" – 3:33
  4. "Heroes Get Remembered, Legends Never Die" – 3:36
  5. "Wrecked 'Em? Damn Near Killed 'Em" – 3:12
  6. "Catastrophe" – 2:37
  7. "Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Hell" – 3:06
  8. "Bada Bing! Wit' a Pipe!" – 3:22
  9. "Beatdown in the Key of Happy" – 3:03
  10. "If He's Here, Who's Runnin' Hell?" – 3:18
  11. "Maniac (R.O.D.)" – 3:08

Australian & Japanese Bonus Track

  1. "So Hot and You Sweat on It" – 3:22

UK Bonus Tracks

  1. "Beep Beep" – 4:05
  2. "Gotta Get Out" – 3:02

All bonus tracks are re-recorded demos.

Trivia

- 'Abandon Ship or Abandon All Hope' is a line from Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
- 'Heroes Get Remembered, Legends Never Die' is a line from The Sandlot
- 'Wrecked 'Em? Damn Near Killed 'Em' is a line from Men in Black II, Otis and Black Sheep
- 'If He's Here, Who's Runnin' Hell?' is a line from National Lampoon's Van Wilder
-"Bada Bing! Wit' a pipe" was a song title selected by old High School friend, Damian Kearney

Personnel

Additional personnel

Rise or Die Trying (Unmixed)

In 2006 a unmixed version of the album was leaked on the Internet. It contains seven demos of it, a demo of one bonus track and three songs that doesn't make the cut on the final release.

Track listing

  1. "Sparkle Motion"
  2. "Heroes Fade Kid, Legends Never Die" ("Heroes Get Remembered, Legends Never Die" Demo)
  3. "Death Is the Only Adventure I Have Left" ("Catastrophe" Demo)
  4. "Angels with Filthy Souls" (Contains a line from "The Takeover")
  5. "Your Ego's Writing Checks Your Body Can't Cash"
  6. "Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Hell" (Demo Version)
  7. "Bada Bing! Wit' a Pipe!" (Demo Version)
  8. "Wrecked 'Em? Damn Near Killed 'Em" (Demo Version)
  9. "Calling All Cars" ("Prepare to Be Digitally Manipulated" Demo)
  10. "Gotta Get Out" (Demo Version)
  11. "Angles with Even Filthier Souls" ("Maniac (R.O.D.)" Demo)

References

Four Year Strong
  • Dan O’Connor
  • Alan Day
  • Joe Weiss
  • Jackson Massucco
Studio albums
Cover Albums
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