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Day Job (Suburban Legends album)

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Released
  
April 3, 2012

Artist
  
Suburban Legends

Producer
  
Vincent Walker

Genres
  
Ska punk, Rock music

Going on Tour (2010)
  
Day Job (2012)

Release date
  
3 April 2012

Label
  
Candy Factory Records

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Day Job is Suburban Legends' fifth album, released on April 3, 2012. Aaron Bertram, Brian Robertson, Derek Rock, and Vincent Walker appeared on local online radio program TNN Radio to announce the album on February 18, 2012.

Contents

The band's first full-length album since 2008's Let's Be Friends and Slay the Dragon Together, Day Job has been heavily promoted by band as a fully ska album, following several releases that explored disco, funk, and pop rock. Included in the release are four re-recorded tracks from the 2010 EP Going on Tour, songs originally intended from earlier releases such as "Take the Next Step," which was written originally for 2003's Rump Shaker, as well as three songs which the band has long performed live with no previous studio recording: "Girlfriend's Pretty," which was first performed live no later than 2005, and two Disney covers: The Little Mermaid's "Under the Sea" and The Lion King's "I Just Can't Wait to Be King."

Suburban Legends held a formal release party show for the album on May 4, 2012, at Chain Reaction in Anaheim, California, with local bands The Originalites, The Long Holidays, and Hooray for Our Side.

Personnel

  • Vincent Walker - Lead vocals, trumpet, acoustic guitar, keyboards
  • Brian Klemm - Lead guitar, backing vocals, Co-lead vocals on "Love Fair", "Just Can't Wait to be King" and "Girlfriend's Pretty"
  • Brian Robertson - Trombone, backing vocals
  • Derek Lee Rock - Drums, backing vocals
  • Brad Polidori - Bass, backing vocals
  • Additional musicians

  • Christopher Cron - Piano, keyboards, background vocals
  • Lyrics Born - Vocals on "Can't Stop It"
  • Matt Olson - Percussion, harmonica
  • Mikey Hachey - Bass on tracks 2-6, 10-12, 14
  • Rika Homma - Gang vocals
  • Miho H. Robertson - Gang vocals
  • Naoko Hiratsuka - Gang vocals
  • The track "Girlfriend's Pretty" appeared in an episode of MTV's The Real World: Portland.
  • The song "My Friend" is an ode to the popular 3rd Wave Ska Band (from Huntington Beach) Reel Big Fish.
  • Songs

    1Emergency
    2Open Up Your Eyes
    3Love Fair

    References

    Day Job (Suburban Legends album) Wikipedia