| Twenty-Eight Teeth | |
| Type: | Studio album |
| Artist: | Buck-O-Nine |
| Cover: | Buck-O-Nine - Twenty-Eight Teeth cover.jpg |
| Released: | 1997 |
| Recorded: | 1997 |
| Genre: | Ska punk |
| Length: | 42:43 |
| Label: | TVT[1] |
| Producer: | Neill King, David Kershenbaum |
| Prev Title: | Water in My Head |
| Prev Year: | 1996 |
| Next Title: | Pass the Dutchie |
| Next Year: | 1998 |
Twenty-Eight Teeth is an album by the American ska punk band Buck-O-Nine, released in 1997.[2] [3]
"My Town", about La Jolla, California, peaked at No. 32 on Billboards Modern Rock Tracks chart.[4] [5] The album peaked at No. 190 on the Billboard 200.[6]
Twenty-Eight Teeth sold more than 200,000 copies.[7] The band promoted it by touring with Primus.[8]
The album was produced by Neill King and David Kershenbaum. It contains a cover of Joe Jackson's "I'm the Man".[4] "What Happened to My Radio?" is about the narrowing of radio playlists.[9]
The Record called the album "an infectious and energetic workout that avoids the same-rhythm rut that most bands of the snappy, staggered-tempo genre fall into."[10] The San Diego Union-Tribune noted that "'Nineteen' is jet-powered by Jonas Kleiner's careening guitars, while 'My Town' gets its cheery bounce from Scott Kennerly's bobbing bass and Steve Bauer's swinging drums."[11] The New Times Broward-Palm Beach praised the "full-throttle skacore ... where hyperactive ska grooves set the pace only to lurch into supercharged punk status come chorus time."[12]
AllMusic wrote that "Buck-O-Nine needs to give more time to the horn section and engage in the kind of loopy interplay that made the Specials so interesting."
All songs written by Buck-O-Nine except "I'm the Man" written by Joe Jackson.