Bring Your Own Stereo Explained

Bring Your Own Stereo
Type:Album
Artist:Jimmie's Chicken Shack
Cover:Jimmies_chicken_shack_bring_your_own_stereo.jpg
Released:Aug 24, 1999
Recorded:1999
Genre:Alternative rock, alternative metal, post-grunge
Length:45:54
Label:Rocket Records/Island Def Jam[1]
Producer:Jim Wirt
Prev Title:Pushing the Salmanilla Envelope
Prev Year:1997
Next Title:Re.present
Next Year:2004

Bring Your Own Stereo is a studio album by Jimmie's Chicken Shack, released in 1999.[2] [3]

It contains the single "Do Right", which peaked at No. 12 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart.[4] The album peaked at No. 153 on the Billboard 200.[5]

Production

Bring Your Own Stereo is a loose concept album about frontman Jimi Haha's ex-girlfriend.[6] The album was produced by Jim Wirt; it was mixed by Tom Lord-Alge.[7]

Critical reception

The Indianapolis Star called the album "an eclectic mix of slacker rock, ska, tame punk and acoustic pop with faux hip-hop grooves."[8] The Charleston Daily Mail wrote: "Owing as much to '80s New Wave pop as to the band's usual blitz of guitar-heavy, slacker-ska, the Maryland quartet has turned down the crunch and aimed for loftier goals: Songs based on melody rather than guitar riffs."[9]

Track listing

All tracks by Jimi Haha

  1. "Spiraling" - 3:45
  2. "Lazy Boy Dash" - 3:13
  3. "Do Right" - 3:02
  4. "String Of Pearls" - 3:55
  5. "Ooh" - 3:04
  6. "Let's Get Flat" - 3:38
  7. "Trash" - 3:08
  8. "Fill In The Blank" - 3:20
  9. "Face It" - 3:20
  10. "Silence Again" - 2:59
  11. "Pure" - 4:29
  12. "Waiting" - 4:04
  13. "30 Days" - 3:57

Personnel

Notes and References

  1. Web site: CNN - There's a lot going on inside Jimmie's Chicken Shack - October 5, 1999. www.cnn.com.
  2. Web site: Artist Biography by John Bush . AllMusic . 6 July 2021.
  3. Web site: Jimmie's Chicken Shack's Che Colovita Lemon. https://web.archive.org/web/20210709184810/http://www.mtv.com/news/519219/jimmies-chicken-shacks-che-colovita-lemon/. dead. July 9, 2021. MTV News.
  4. Web site: Jimmie's Chicken Shack to celebrate 'Stereo's' 15th year . The Baltimore Sun . 6 July 2021.
  5. Book: Whitburn . Joel . Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Albums, 1955-2001 . 2001 . Record Research . 429.
  6. Ghorbani . Lisa . Jimmie's Chicken Shack . Rolling Stone . Oct 28, 1999 . 824 . 33.
  7. Web site: With 'Holehearted' approval: Jimi Haha to release solo album . Chicago Tribune . 6 July 2021.
  8. News: Slosarek . Steve . Jimmie's Chicken Shack 'Bring Your Own Stereo' . The Indianapolis Star . 20 Feb 2000 . I6.
  9. News: Lipton . Michael . CD Review . Charleston Daily Mail . 16 Dec 1999 . 2D.