Band Name: Reel Big Fish
Music Album: A Best Of Us...For The Rest Of Us
Album Release Date: December 2024
Music Genre: Punk Rock Ska Acoustic
Record Label: Rock Ridge Music
Album Release Country: United States
Music Record Type: 60 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 (...)
| The Singles | ||
| 1-1 | Sell Out | 3:55 |
| 1-2 | Beer | 3:53 |
| 1-3 | She Has A Girlfriend Now | 3:11 |
| 1-4 | Everything Sucks | 2:55 |
| 1-5 | Trendy | 2:41 |
| 1-6 | All I Want Is More | 2:42 |
| 1-7 | I Want Your Girlfriend To Be My Girlfriend Too | 2:51 |
| 1-8 | In The Pit | 2:46 |
| 1-9 | The Set Up (You Need This) | 4:22 |
| 1-10 | Somebody Hates Me | 3:27 |
| 1-11 | You Don't Know | 3:18 |
| 1-12 | Suckers (This One's For You) | 3:42 |
| 1-13 | Where Have You Been | 4:02 |
| 1-14 | Good Thing | 3:27 |
| 1-15 | Ban The Tube Top | 3:05 |
| 1-16 | Don't Start A Band | 3:21 |
| 1-17 | The Fire | 3:06 |
| 1-18 | Your Guts (I Hate 'Em) | 2:04 |
| 1-19 | Another F.U. Song | 1:05 |
| 1-20 | New Version Of You (New Version) | 3:23 |
| 1-21 | Party Down | 4:09 |
| 1-22 | Slow Down (Single Version) | 4:22 |
| 1-23 | She Has A Girlfriend Now (Live) | 5:01 |
| Skacoustic | ||
| 2-1 | Sell Out | 3:58 |
| 2-2 | Take On Me | 3:17 |
| 2-3 | Beer | 3:46 |
| 2-4 | She Has A Girlfriend Now | 3:35 |
| 2-5 | Another F.U. Song | 1:06 |
| 2-6 | Your Guts (I Hate 'Em) | 1:57 |
| 2-7 | Suckers | 3:36 |
| 2-8 | Where Have You Been | 3:58 |
| 2-9 | Don't Start A Band | 3:20 |
| 2-10 | S.R. | 1:40 |
| 2-11 | 241 | 2:43 |
| 2-12 | The Kids Don't Like It | 3:27 |
| 2-13 | Scott's A Dork | 3:05 |
| 2-14 | Nothin' | 2:08 |
| 2-15 | I'm Cool | 3:32 |
| 2-16 | Everything Sucks | 3:00 |
| 2-17 | You Don't Know | 3:18 |
| 2-18 | Imaginary Friend | 3:25 |
| 2-19 | I'm Her Man | 4:06 |
| 2-10 | Good Thing | 3:24 |
| 2-21 | New Version Of You | 3:23 |
| 2-22 | One Hit Wonderful | 3:42 |
| The Best Songs We Never Wrote | ||
| 3-1 | Take On Me | 3:21 |
| 3-2 | Brown Eyed Girl | 3:05 |
| 3-3 | Kiss Me Deadly | 3:48 |
| 3-4 | Boss D.J. | 3:10 |
| 3-5 | Boys Don't Cry | 2:18 |
| 3-6 | Another Day In Paradise | 2:42 |
| 3-7 | Nothin' But A Good Time | 3:02 |
| 3-8 | Monkey Man | 2:29 |
| 3-9 | Veronica Sawyer | 3:25 |
| 3-10 | Give It To Me | 3:03 |
| 3-11 | Stray Cat Strut | 3:18 |
| 3-12 | Unity (Live At The Alley) | 2:46 |
| 3-13 | We Hate It When Our Friends Become Successful | 2:27 |
| 3-14 | Talk Dirty To Me | 3:44 |
| 3-15 | We Close Our Eyes | 3:52 |
Cover gives the subtitle as: Bigger Better Bonus Deluxe Version (with even more awesomeness!)
℗© 2011 Piss-Off Publishing (exclusive licence to Rock Ridge Music, LLC).
Packaging is a four panel treble-gatefold digipak. The first panel is a sleeve containing the 12-page booklet and a sticker sheet, the next three panels are digipaks for the CDs.
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. On the first disc only 21 & 22 are from recording sessions of previous albums.
There is a typo in the credits, listing Derek Gibbs as: Bass, "Goup" Vocals.
The Written By credits for disc 3 have some idiosyncrasies in spelling/formatting, and there is no credit other than "Operation Ivy" for 3-12.
3-1 published by Sony/ATV Songs LLC
3-2, 3-8 published by Universal/Songs Of Polygram International Inc.
3-3 published by Music & Media International/Twin Towers Co.
3-4 published by Songs of Universal, Inc.
3-5 published by Universal Music MGB Songs
3-6 published by Imagem Music
3-9 published by Barefoot Music/BMI
3-10 published by Walden Music, Inc./WB Music Co.
3-11 published by EMI Longitude Music Co.
3-13 published by Sony/ATV Songs; Warner Tamerlane Publishing Corp.
3-14 published by Universal Music-Z Songs
3-15 published by Bug Music
(3-7, 3-12 publisher not credited).
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