Turn the Radio Off

Turn the Radio Off
Studio album by Reel Big Fish
Released	August 13, 1996 (Rerelease) May 13, 2014
Recorded	April - May 1996 at Media Ventures, Santa Monica, California
Genre	Ska punk
Length	42:37
Label	Mojo, Jive, Enjoy The Ride Records
Producer	Reel Big Fish, Jay Rifkin, John Avila
Reel Big Fish chronology
Everything Sucks (1995) Turn the Radio Off (1996) Keep Your Receipt EP (1997)
Singles from Turn the Radio Off
"Sell Out" Released: August 13, 1996

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Punktastic	[2]

Turn the Radio Off is the second full-length album by ska punk band Reel Big Fish. It was released in the U.S. in 1996 on Mojo Records.

The single "Sell Out" received radio airplay and was a minor success during 1997. "Sell Out" also appeared on the soundtrack to the video games FIFA 2000, Aggressive Inline, and Disney's Extreme Skate Adventure. KROQ air personality Jed the Fish appears on the album cover with a gun in his face held by Aaron's (then-) girlfriend. The album has been certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America.^[3]

Reel Big Fish later released a song titled "Turn the Radio Off" on their album We're Not Happy 'Til You're Not Happy, named after this album.

A limited press of the album was released on Vinyl on 13th May 2014. The rerelease was exclusive to Enjoy The Ride Records, with copies also being available through Hot Topic.

Track listing

Songs From Everything Sucks

Over half of the songs are re-recorded versions of songs from RBF's first album Everything Sucks:

• "Cool Ending" (an acoustic version of "I'm Cool")
• "Join the Club"
• "I'll Never Be"
• "Trendy"
• "Skatanic"
• "Say Ten"
• "Beer"
• "All I Want is More" (originally titled "Fuck Yourself")
• "Snoop Dog, Baby"
• "S.R." (appeared on the original pressing of Everything Sucks, but not the Mojo re-release)

Oddly, the song "Everything Sucks" was not on the album Everything Sucks and may have been written after Everything Sucks was released. Similarly, a song titled "Turn The Radio Off" would appear on the band's 2005 album, We're Not Happy 'Til You're Not Happy. Aaron Barrett has stated that he had planned to have a song on each album named for the previously released album. He claims that this idea eventually fell apart.

Personnel

Reel Big Fish

• Aaron Barrett - vocals and guitar
• Grant Barry - trombone
• Andrew Gonzales - drums
• Scott Klopfenstein - trumpet and vocals
• Dan Regan - trombone
• Tavis Werts - trumpet
• Matt Wong - bass

Guest Musicians

• Isaiah Owens - keyboard
• Monique Powell - vocals on "She Has a Girlfriend Now"
• Efren Santana - saxophone
• Jesse Wilder - background vocals
• Kevin Globerman - background vocals
• Vince Pileggi - background vocals
• Michael Shaw - background vocals

Production

• Jay Rifkin - producer
• John Avila - producer
• Slamm Andrews - engineer
• Kevin Globerman - engineer
• Stephen Marcussen - mastering
• Patrick McDowell - A&R
• Aaron Barrett - cover concept
• Vince Pileggi - cover concept
• Carla Yacenda - "girl with gun"
• Jed the Fish - "disc jockey"
• Sheryl Nields - photography
• Reggie Casagrande - assistant

Notes

• The album lists the song "In The Pit" under the Writer's credits section, although "In The Pit" is not on the album. This song would later appear on the Teen Beef split 7" with Goldfinger and later on Why Do They Rock So Hard? as "Thank You For Not Moshing" with some minor lyrical changes.

• The cover of a "clean" version of the album is a blank white field with just the band's name, the name of the album and the text of the First Amendment, incorrectly identified as "Article I".^[4]

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