Medium Rare (The Mighty Mighty Bosstones album)

Medium Rare
Compilation album by The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Released	December 18, 2007
Recorded	1989-2007
Genre	Ska punk
Length	40:46
Label	Big Rig
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones chronology
A Jackknife to a Swan (2002) Medium Rare (2007) Pin Points and Gin Joints (2009)

Medium Rare is a compilation album by The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, released on December 18, 2007 on Big Rig Records.^[1] It contains three new songs, nine previously unreleased tracks and some rare B-sides.^[2] This is also the band's first release since they went on hiatus in 2003.

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Track listing

1. "This List" - 4:21
2. "The Meaning" - 2:34
3. "Don't Worry Desmond Dekker" - 3:38
4. "To California" - 3:11
5. "The One with the Woes All Over It" - 2:59
6. "So Many Ways" - 2:36
7. "A Reason to Toast" - 2:58
8. "Who's Fooling Who?" - 2:33
9. "Katie" - 3:10
10. "This Time of Year" - 2:17
11. "Chocolate Pudding" - 3:01
12. "Is It?" - 2:52
13. "Favorite Records" - 4:36

Song information

• "This List", "Don't Worry Desmond Dekker" and "The One with the Woes All Over It" are brand new songs, recorded and produced by the Bosstones during the fall of 2007.
• "The Meaning" and "Favorite Records" are B-sides from the Pay Attention sessions (2000). "The Meaning" was released as a vinyl bonus track on Pay Attention while "Favorite Records" is previously unreleased. It seems to be a song about Phil Spector.
• "To California" and "Katie" are previously unreleased tracks from A Jackknife to a Swan sessions (2002).
• "Is It?", "So Many Ways" and "Who's Fooling Who?" are B-sides from the Let's Face It sessions (1997). "Is It?" appears on the "The Impression That I Get" (Australian/UK) single (1997) and The Rascal King (US) 7" single (1998). "So Many Ways" appears on the second UK The Impression That I Get single (1997). An alternate version of "Who's Fooling Who?" appears on the compilation CD Mashin' Up the Nation, Best of American Ska Volumes 3 & 4 (1998).
• "This Time of Year" and "A Reason to Toast" were originally recorded in 2001 (along with other songs that would later appear on A Jackknife to a Swan). "This Time of Year" originally appears on a promotional Bosstones CD given out during the 2001 Hometown Throwdown and A Santa Cause: It's a Punk Rock Christmas (2003). An extended version of "A Reason to Toast" appears on an EP split with Madcap (2001).
• "Chocolate Pudding" was a B-side from the Question the Answers sessions (1994). It originally appears as a bonus track on Question the Answers (Japanese import version), the "Kinder Words" single (1994), and the Here We Go Again EP (1995).

Personnel

• Dicky Barrett - vocals
• Tim "Johnny Vegas" Burton - saxophone
• Ben Carr - manager and "Bosstone"
• Joe Gittleman "the Bass Fiddleman" - bass guitar
• Lawrence Katz - guitar
• Joe Sirois - drums
• Chris Rhodes - trombone
• Roman Fleysher - saxophone
• Nate Albert - guitar
• Dennis Brockenborough - trombone
• Kevin Lenear - saxophone
• Dave Aaronoff - keyboards

References