Artist: ReelBigFish
Genre(s):
Pop
Discography:
Cheer up!
Year: 2003
Tracks: 16
Reel Big Fish was one of the legions of Southern California ska-punk bands to border into the mainstream undermentioned the commercial succeeder of No Doubt and Sublime. Like to the highest degree of their peers, the dance orchestra was distinguished by their hyperkinetic stage shows, puerile humour, ironic covers of new undulation pop songs, and metallic shards of ska. The grouping cultivated an resistance undermentioned that broke into the mainstream in summer 1997, when their single "Sell Out" became a mod rock radio and MTV favourite.
Based in Huntington Beach, CA, Reel Big Fish was originally a tierce comprised of vocalist/guitarist Aaron Barrett, bassist Matt Wong, and drummer Andrew Gonzales. At that stage, the grouping was a conventional stone banding with pop-metal leanings that covered both classic tilt and Top 40 songs -- it was euphony intentional for frat parties. After several months, the dance orchestra ascertained ska and decided to append horn players. Reel Big Fish had a hard clip maintaining a stable saddle horn section, and it took several days in front their terminal batting order -- featuring Tavis Werts (trumpet), Scott Klopfenstein (trumpet, vocals), Grant Barry (trombone), and Dan Regan (trombone) -- fell into topographic point.
This unexampled and last lineup of Reel Big Fish recorded their debut record album, Everything Sucks, in 1995, and released it themselves. Everything Sucks became a grapevine resistance hit in ska-punk and college circles. Following its success, the dance orchestra signed with the indie label Mojo Records. The label's president, Jay Rifkin, and former Oingo Boingo bassist John Avila co-produced Turn the Radio Off, Reel Big Fish's number one record album for Mojo. Turn the Radio Off was released in August 1996, and over the next year, the grouping continually toured in support of the album, expanding their fan pedestal all the while. In springtime 1997, the single "Sell Out" began receiving heavy airplay from several influential modern rock stations of the Cross in the U.S., which before long translated into MTV support for the song's offbeat picture. By summertime, the vocal had become a moderate modern rock strike, and the album had charted in the Top one C. In July 1997, Reel Big Fish released the Keep Your Receipt EP, which contained "Sell Out" and several outtakes, novel songs, and live cuts. Wherefore Do They Rock So Hard followed a year later on, and in early 2000 the striation returned with Everything Sucks.
The guys wound up on Jive in fall 2001 when their electric current label, Mojo, was bought by Jive's parent label, Zomba. Reel Big Fish's tag debut, Cheer Up!, appeared in mid-2002. A supporting circuit with the Starting Line and the Kicks as openers followed. Touring continued over the next few age with myriad bands, including Sum 41, Catch 22, Lucky Boys Confusion, the Matches, Zebrahead, and more than. Their instalment of Kung Fu's DVD series, The Show Must Go Off, was recorded live at Anaheim's House of Blues in June 2003. The DVD was released by the end of the yr, and the band's next record album, the misanthropic still attention-getting We're Not Happy 'Til You're Not Happy, was issued in April 2005. For the record album, the grouping consisted of Barrett, Regan, Klopfenstein, Wong, new cornetist John Christianson, and drummer Justin Ferreira; Ferreira was replaced by Ryland Steen in February 2005.
Touring continued for the breathe of the year and through the next; Reel Big Fish gayly parted ways with Jive in January 2006 (they'd been lacking to be dropped since Cheer Up!'s release). Ever on the road, they could be constitute that summertime on a nationwide co-headlining hitch with MxPx. The self-released double live CD and attendant DVD set Our Live Album Is Better Than Your Live Album arrived that August. A few months by and by -- and practically to the annoyance of the ring -- Jive issued the best-of compilation Greatest Hit...and More. Reel Big Fish returned with some new material in February 2007 with the split EP Duette All Night Long aboard their friends in Zolof the Rock & Roll Destroyer.
