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Look Forward to Failure

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Released
  
November 10, 1998

Length
  
14:40

Release date
  
10 November 1998

Genres
  
Rock music, Pop punk

Recorded
  
September 14-18, 1998

Artist
  
The Ataris

Label
  
Fat Wreck Chords

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Look Forward to Failure (1998)
  
Blue Skies, Broken Hearts...Next 12 Exits (1999)

Producers
  
Bill Stevenson, Stephen Egerton, Joey Cape

Look Forward to Failure is an EP released on November 10, 1998 by The Ataris on Fat Wreck Chords. This was the first album released to feature the fan favorite "San Dimas High School Football Rules". That song later appeared on Blue Skies, Broken Hearts...Next 12 Exits. The band also intended on putting the song "That Special Girl" on Blue Skies, Broken Hearts as well but it didn't make the cut. The song features Mark Hoppus of Blink-182 on backing vocals. The version of "My Hotel Year" that appears on this EP is the electric version and contains an extra verse at the end. The version that ended up on Blue Skies was acoustic and shortened.

Contents

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Track listing

  1. "San Dimas High School Football Rules" - 2:45
  2. "Not a Worry in the World" - 2:22
  3. "My So Called Life" - 2:41
  4. "My Hotel Year" - 2:18
  5. "Between You and Me" - 2:36
  6. "That Special Girl" - 1:55 (featuring Mark Hoppus)

Band members

  • Kris Roe – vocals, guitar
  • Patrick Riley – guitar
  • Michael Davenport – bass
  • Chris Knapp – drums

    • Additional personnel

  • Back up vocals were provided by Mark Hoppus and Chad Price.
  • Tracks 2, 3, 4, and 6 were recorded and mixed at The Blasting Room in Fort Collins, CO on September 14–18, 1998. They were produced and engineered by Bill Stevenson and Stephen Egerton and mixed by Jason Livermore.
  • Tracks 1 and 5 were recorded at Orange Whip Studios in Santa Barbara, CA. They were produced by Joey Cape and engineered by Angus Cooke.

    • Trivia

  • The song "My So Called Life" was written by Kris because he had a crush on Claire Danes. He also later wrote a song entitled "Ben Lee", which was about Claire's boyfriend of the same name and how much Kris hated him.
  • The song "My Hotel Year" was inspired by the book Life After God by Douglas Coupland.

    • Songs

    1San Dimas High School Football Rules2:47
    2Not a Worry in the World2:23
    3My So Called Life2:42

    References

    Look Forward to Failure Wikipedia
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