American Beer (album)

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Released September 5, 2000 Length 37:11 Release date 5 September 2000 Label Hall of Records		Recorded 2000 Artist Fear Producer Lee Ving Genres Punk rock, Hardcore punk

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American Beer is the fourth studio album by Fear, released in 2000. Many of the album's tracks were written and recorded during Fear's earlier years, but have not appeared on any prior studio albums.

Track listing

All songs by Lee Ving, except where noted.

Personnel

Lee Ving: vocals, rhythm guitar, harmonica

Richard Presley: lead guitar

Mando Lopez: bass

Andrew Jaimez: drums

Song analysis

"Surgery" was originally titled "Mengele" (a reference to Josef Mengele, the infamous Nazi doctor) and was performed live numerous times by the band in the 1980s, including during a performance on New Wave Theatre.

"The Bud Club" was originally titled "Budweiser" and appeared on the bootleg 7" of the same name.

"Hootchie Cootchie Man", originally made famous by Muddy Waters, was previously performed by Fear in 1983 on the Get Crazy soundtrack.

"Catfight" was written by original guitarist Philo Cramer and recorded for the band's unreleased 1979 demo, as well as for Cramer's project The Coup d'État Lab Band. It was also performed live many times.

"Hard 'Cotto' Salami" is a rehashed version of the well-known Fear song "Beef Bologna".

"Beer:30" was apparently written in the early 1980s, but was never recorded and never or rarely performed live during that time.

"Beerheads" was originally entitled "Skinheads", and was performed by the band in the early to mid-1990s.

Songs

1Surgery1:21
2The Bud Club2:50
3I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man2:23

References

American Beer (album) Wikipedia

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