Year of the Cycos
| Year of the Cycos | ||||
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| Compilation album by Suicidal Tendencies | ||||
| Released | 2008 | |||
| Genre |
Punk metal Thrash metal Funk metal | |||
| Length | 54:07 | |||
| Label | Suicidal Records | |||
| Producer | Mike Muir & Paul Northfield | |||
| Suicidal Tendencies chronology | ||||
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Year of the Cycos is a compilation album of bands featuring vocalist Mike Muir, released in 2008. It features new and previously released songs by Suicidal Tendencies, Infectious Grooves, Cyco Miko, and No Mercy.
Year of the Cycos was available exclusively at concerts during Suicidal Tendencies' 2008 tour and is currently available via the bands official e-card and website.
Some tracks are older songs, like No Mercy's "Crazy and Proud" which was originally released in 1987, while others tracks are recent re-recordings of previously released songs, such as Suicidal Tendencies' "Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right" which originally appeared on their 1987 Join the Army album. Year of the Cycos is essentially a sampler of tracks from planned forthcoming releases by Infectious Grooves, Cyco Miko, and Suicidal Tendencies (their subsequent album, a collection of re-recordings of previously released songs, was released in 2010).
The Suicidal Tendencies song "Come Alive", heralded as a return to the classic era Suicidal sound from the early 1990s complete with distinct guitar solos, had a music video created for it.
Track listing
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Artist | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "No Mercy Fool!" | Muir / Clark | Suicidal Tendencies | 3:27 |
| 2. | "Come Alive" | Muir / Clark | Suicidal Tendencies | 3:42 |
| 3. | "Cyco Side of the Brain" | Muir / Clark | Suicidal Tendencies | 3:52 |
| 4. | "Life's Longer Than Just One Day" | Muir / Clark | Suicidal Tendencies | 4:42 |
| 5. | "It's the Groove... Don't Fight It" | Muir / Paul / Pleasants | Infectious Grooves | 3:49 |
| 6. | "Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right" | Muir / George | Suicidal Tendencies | 2:44 |
| 7. | "Big Man" | Muir | Cyco Miko | 3:39 |
| 8. | "Crazy But Proud" | Muir / Clark | No Mercy | 4:08 |
| 9. | "Cyco Vision (Live)" | Muir / Clark / Paul | Suicidal Tendencies | 1:54 |
| 10. | "Beam Me Up" | Muir / Clark | Cyco Miko | 4:18 |
| 11. | "It's Automatic" | Muir / Bruner / Pleasants | Infectious Grooves | 5:01 |
| 12. | "My Summer Vacation / All Goes to Hell" | Muir, Muir / Pleasants | Cyco Miko | 4:40 |
| 13. | "Funny Farm" | Muir / Pleasants | Infectious Grooves | 3:26 |
| 14. | "The Future's Now!" | Muir / Clark | Suicidal Tendencies | 2:44 |
Personnel
No Mercy - Track 8
Suicidal Tendencies - Tracks 1-4, 6, 9, 14
- Mike Muir - Lead Vocals
- Mike Clark - Guitar
- Dean Pleasants - Lead Guitar
- Steve Bruner - Bass
- Brooks Wackerman - Drums
- Ron Bruner - Drums on "Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right"
Infectious Grooves - Tracks 5, 11, 13
- Mike Muir - Lead Vocals
- Dean Pleasants - Guitar
- Tim Stewart - Guitar
- Steve Bruner - Bass
- Eric Moore - Drums
- Robert Trujillo - Bass on "Funny Farm"
- Josh Paul - Bass on "It's the Groove..."
- Brooks Wackerman - Drums on "Funny Farm"
- Ron Bruner - Drums on "It's Automatic"
- Monte Neuble - Keyboards
Cyco Miko - Tracks 7, 10, 12
- Mike Muir - Lead Vocals
- Dean Pleasants - Guitar
- Robert Trujillo - Bass
- Adam Siegel - Drums
- Produced by Mike Muir and Paul Northfield
- Artwork by Alan Pirie at Cyberelg.net