Bring Your Own Stereo
Bring Your Own Stereo is a studio album by Jimmie's Chicken Shack, released in 1999.[5][6]
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Released | Aug 24, 1999 | |||
Recorded | 1999 | |||
Genre | Alternative rock, alternative metal, post-grunge | |||
Length | 45:54 | |||
Label | Rocket Records/Island Def Jam[1][2] | |||
Producer | Jim Wirt | |||
Jimmie's Chicken Shack chronology | ||||
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [3] |
The Baltimore Sun | [4] |
The Indianapolis Star | [1] |
It contains the single "Do Right", which peaked at No. 12 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart.[7] The album peaked at No. 153 on the Billboard 200.[8]
Production
Bring Your Own Stereo is a loose concept album about frontman Jimi Haha's ex-girlfriend.[9] The album was produced by Jim Wirt; it was mixed by Tom Lord-Alge.[10]
Critical reception
The Indianapolis Star called the album "an eclectic mix of slacker rock, ska, tame punk and acoustic pop with faux hip-hop grooves."[1] The Charleston Daily Mail wrote: "Owing as much to '80s New Wave pop as to the band's usual blitz of guitar-heavy, slacker-ska, the Maryland quartet has turned down the crunch and aimed for loftier goals: Songs based on melody rather than guitar riffs."[11]
Track listing
All tracks by Jimi Haha
- "Spiraling" - 3:45
- "Lazy Boy Dash" - 3:13
- "Do Right" - 3:02
- "String Of Pearls" - 3:55
- "Ooh" - 3:04
- "Let's Get Flat" - 3:38
- "Trash" - 3:08
- "Fill In The Blank" - 3:20
- "Face It" - 3:20
- "Silence Again" - 2:59
- "Pure" - 4:29
- "Waiting" - 4:04
- "30 Days" - 3:57
Personnel
- Greg Calbi – Mastering
- Randy Cole – Photography
- Double D – Fiddle
- Steve Ewing – Background vocals
- Stefanie Fife – Cello
- Jill Greenberg – Photography
- Jimi Haha – Fiddle, Art Direction
- Erin Haley – Project Coordinator
- Femio Hernández – Mixing Assistant
- Donat Kazarinoff – Tambourine, Background vocals, Engineer
- Che Colovita Lemon – Bass
- David Leonard – Mixing
- Chris Lord-Alge – Mixing
- Tom Lord-Alge – Mixing
- Declan Morrell – Project Coordinator
- Novi Novog – Viola
- Justin Risley – Assistant Engineer
- Matt Silva – Mixing Assistant
- Sipple – Snare drum
- P.J. Smith – Tambourine
- Jim Wirt – Producer, Engineer
- Kathleen Wirt – Project Coordinator
- Suzanne Ybarra – Project Coordinator
References
- Slosarek, Steve (20 Feb 2000). "Jimmie's Chicken Shack 'Bring Your Own Stereo'". The Indianapolis Star. p. I6.
- "CNN - There's a lot going on inside Jimmie's Chicken Shack - October 5, 1999". www.cnn.com.
- AllMusic review
- Considine, J.D. (26 Aug 1999). "Jimmie's Chicken Shack tries to mix energy with melody". The Baltimore Sun. Live. p. 8.
- "Artist Biography by John Bush". AllMusic. Retrieved 6 July 2021.
- "Jimmie's Chicken Shack's Che Colovita Lemon". MTV News.
- "Jimmie's Chicken Shack to celebrate 'Stereo's' 15th year". The Baltimore Sun. Retrieved 6 July 2021.
- Whitburn, Joel (2001). Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Albums, 1955-2001. Record Research. p. 429.
- Ghorbani, Lisa (Oct 28, 1999). "Jimmie's Chicken Shack". Rolling Stone (824): 33.
- "With 'Holehearted' approval: Jimi Haha to release solo album". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 6 July 2021.
- Lipton, Michael (16 Dec 1999). "CD Review". Charleston Daily Mail. p. 2D.