Band Name: Reel Big Fish
Music Album: A Best Of Us... For The Rest Of Us
Album Release Date: July 2010
Music Genre: Punk Rock Ska Acoustic
Record Label: Rock Ridge Music
Album Release Country: United States
Music Record Type: 36 Tracks CD Album
A ska-punk band from Huntington Beach, California. Reel Big Fish was one of the legions of Southern California ska-punk bands to edge into the mainstream following the mid-’90s success of No Doubt and Sublime. The band was distinguished by their hyper-kinetic stage shows, juvenile humor, ironic covers of new wave pop songs, and metallic shards of ska. The group cultivated an underground following that broke into the mainstream in summer 1997 when their single “Sell Out” became a modern rock radio and MTV favorite. Their appearance in the movie “Baseketball” as the halftime band also gained them more fans and helped the band's popularity to grow. Still fronted by original lead singer and songwriter Aaron Barrett, they continue releasing albums and touring relentlessly, playing more and more countries and bigger venues all over the world.
Reel Big Fish recorded its self-released debut album, “Everything Sucks”, in 1995. “Everything Sucks” became a word-of-mouth underground hit in ska-punk and college circles, which gave the band enough leverage to sign with the indie label Mojo Records. The label’s president, Jay Rifkin, and former Oingo Boingo bassist John Avila co-produced “Turn the Radio Off”, which marked Reel Big Fish’s first album for Mojo. “Turn the Radio Off” was released in August 1996, and over the next year, the group continually toured in support of the album’s release, expanding their fan base all the while. In spring 1997, the (...)
| 1-1 | Sell Out | 3:54 |
| 1-2 | Take On Me | 3:19 |
| 1-3 | Beer | 3:51 |
| 1-4 | She Has A Girlfriend Now | 3:08 |
| 1-5 | Everything Sucks | 2:54 |
| 1-6 | Trendy | 2:39 |
| 1-7 | I Want Your Girlfriend To Be My Girlfriend Too | 2:49 |
| 1-8 | In The Pit | 2:44 |
| 1-9 | The Set Up (You Need This) | 4:18 |
| 1-10 | Somebody Hates Me | 3:25 |
| 1-11 | You Don't Know | 3:16 |
| 1-12 | Suckers (This One's For You) | 3:40 |
| 1-13 | Where Have You Been | 3:59 |
| 1-14 | Good Thing | 3:24 |
| 1-15 | Ban The Tube Top | 3:04 |
| 1-16 | Don't Start A Band | 3:18 |
| 1-17 | Your Guts (I Hate 'Em) | 2:03 |
| 1-18 | Another F.U. Song | 1:03 |
| 1-19 | New Version Of You (New Version) | 3:21 |
| 1-20 | Party Down | 4:08 |
| 1-21 | Slow Down (Single Version) | 4:20 |
| 1-22 | Brown Eyed Girl | 3:04 |
| Skacoustic | ||
| 2-1 | Sell Out | 3:55 |
| 2-2 | Take On Me | 3:44 |
| 2-3 | Beer | 3:15 |
| 2-4 | She Has A Girlfriend Now | 3:04 |
| 2-5 | Another F.U. Song | 1:04 |
| 2-6 | Your Guts (I Hate 'Em) | 1:55 |
| 2-7 | Suckers | 3:34 |
| 2-8 | Where Have You Been | 3:54 |
| 2-9 | Don't Start A Band | 3:18 |
| 2-10 | S.R. | 1:38 |
| 2-11 | 241 | 2:40 |
| 2-12 | The Kids Don't Like It | 3:26 |
| 2-13 | Scott's A Dork | 3:05 |
| 2-14 | Nothin' | 2:07 |
Disc One: All New Recordings of the Hits & Fan Favorites
Disc Two: Previously Unreleased "Skacoustic" Versions of RBF Classics
Because the band's former label, Jive Records, owns the master recordings of all their old material, almost all of the songs on the album are re-recorded versions. Only the last three tracks included on the first disc (Party Down, Slow Down, and Brown Eyed Girl) are from recording sessions of previous albums.
Sold exclusively at Best Buy stores, in a single width two disc clear jewel case.
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