Live at the House of Blues (The Vandals album)
Live at the House of Blues | ||||
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Length | 56:53 | |||
Label | Kung Fu | |||
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Live at the House of Blues is a live album and video by the southern
The performance relies heavily on material from the band's albums since 1990, when the current lineup solidified, and excludes songs from their first three releases of the 1980s. As the current lineup of the Vandals grew in popularity and recognition throughout the 1990s they began to distance themselves from the material performed by earlier incarnations of the band, of which only Escalante remains. These earlier songs tended to attract an older, more violent audience which the current lineup of the band eschewed in favor of newer, younger fans attracted to their more recent output. These early songs had already been released in live format on Sweatin' to the Oldies 13 years earlier, so the band also felt that it would be redundant to rehash that part of their past.
The DVD contains numerous bonus features including band member commentaries (Escalante, Fitzgerald and singer
Track listing
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "43210-1" | Dave Quackenbush, Josh Freese | |
6. | "Café 405" | Freese | |
7. | "Soccer Mom" | Freese | |
8. | "The New You" | Fitzgerald, Quackenbush | |
9. | "Marry Me" | Freese, Quackenbush | |
10. | "Oi to the World" | Escalante | |
11. | "N.I.M.B.Y." | Escalante, Fitzgerald | |
12. | "My Brain Tells My Body" | Freese | |
13. | "People That Are Going to Hell" | Fitzgerald | |
14. | "Too Much Drama" | Dexter Holland, Escalante, Freese, Fitzgerald | |
15. | "Disproportioned Head" | Fitzgerald | |
16. | "Take it Back" | Quackenbush | |
17. | "The Unseen Tears of the Albacore" | Escalante, Fitzgerald | |
18. | "And Now We Dance" | Fitzgerald | |
19. | "I've Got an Ape Drape" | Escalante | |
20. | "Behind the Music" | Fitzgerald | |
21. | "My Girlfriend's Dead" | Fitzgerald | |
22. | "I Have a Date" (originally performed by the Simpletones) | Jay Lansford | |
Total length: | 56:53 |
Personnel
- Dave Quackenbush– vocals
- Warren Fitzgerald – guitar, backing vocals
- Joe Escalante – bass, backing vocals
- Josh Freese – drums
Album information
- Record label: Kung Fu Films
- Recorded live at the House of Blues in Anaheim, California on July 5, 2003