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

• Greg Calbi – Mastering
• Randy Cole – Photography
• Double D – Fiddle
• Steve Ewing – Background vocals
• Stefanie Fife – Cello
• Jill Greenberg – Photography
• Jimi Haha – Fiddle, Art Direction
• Erin Haley – Project Coordinator
• Femio Hernández – Mixing Assistant
• Donat Kazarinoff – Tambourine, Background vocals, Engineer
• Che Colovita Lemon – Bass
• David Leonard – Mixing
• Chris Lord-Alge – Mixing
• Tom Lord-Alge – Mixing
• Declan Morrell – Project Coordinator
• Novi Novog – Viola
• Justin Risley – Assistant Engineer
• Matt Silva – Mixing Assistant
• Sipple – Snare drum
• P.J. Smith – Tambourine
• Jim Wirt – Producer, Engineer
• Kathleen Wirt – Project Coordinator
• Suzanne Ybarra – Project Coordinator

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.