Energy (album)

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Energy
Energy cover
Studio album by Operation Ivy
Released Original: 1989
CD: 1991
Recorded September 1987 - January 1989
Genre Ska punk
Length 49:51
Label Lookout!
Producer Operation Ivy
Professional reviews
Operation Ivy chronology
Hectic
(1988)		 Energy
(1989)

Energy is the only full album released by the ska punk band Operation Ivy. It has been cited as one of the most important albums of the ska punk genre. Energy was released twice, the second time with the addition of eight tracks. The original release (1989) was only nineteen tracks (the first nineteen listed below) and released only on Vinyl and Cassette. The 1991 CD release added tracks from other albums. Tracks twenty through twenty-five were originally on the Operation Ivy EP Hectic, while the tracks "Officer" and "I Got No" were taken from the Turn It Around compilation. In 2004 Hellcat Records re-released the nineteen track version as a 12" LP picture disc.

In 2006, the album was ranked as the highest rated punk album of 1989 and 6th highest rated ever on Sputnikmusic.[1]

Contents

[edit] Recording and style

Operation Ivy tried to record Energy at 924 Gilman Street but because of problems, they set out to record at Sound and Vision in San Francisco, in January 1989.[citation needed] As did Hectic, Energy had outtakes that were later put into a CD called Unreleased Energy. Energy has been said to be more mature and less hardcore than Hectic.[citation needed]

[edit] Influence and covers

Energy is widely regarded, along with Destruction by Definition by Suicide Machines, as a pivotal album of Ska-core. Many artists have covered the songs on Energy (and Hectic), including a compilation called Take Warning: The Songs of Operation Ivy. The Leftover Crack song "Gay Rude Boys Unite" is a parody of "Unity" and "Yellin' In My Ear", and is an attack on the members of Operation Ivy and Rancid, as well as other members of the ska/punk community.

[edit] Track listing

All songs written by Operation Ivy.

  1. "Knowledge" – 1:40
  2. "Sound System" – 2:14
  3. "Jaded" – 1:49
  4. "Take Warning" – 2:44
  5. "The Crowd" – 2:10
  6. "Bombshell" – 1:01
  7. "Unity" – 2:13
  8. "Vulnerability" – 1:58
  9. "Bankshot" – 1:30
  10. "One Of These Days" – 1:05
  11. "Gonna Find You" – 1:52
  12. "Bad Town" – 2:32
  13. "Smiling" – 1:44
  14. "Caution" – 1:23
  15. "Freeze Up" – 2:19
  16. "Artificial Life" – 2:03
  17. "Room Without a Window" – 1:31
  18. "Big City" – 2:14
  19. "Missionary" – 2:05
    • Hectic EP (added for CD rerelease)
  20. "Junkie's Runnin' Dry" – 2:03
  21. "Here We Go Again" – 2:04
  22. "Hoboken" – 1:10
  23. "Yellin' in my Ear" – 1:31
  24. "Sleep Long" – 2:06
  25. "Healthy Body" – 1:40
    • Turn It Around compilation (added for CD rerelease)
  26. "Officer" – 1:55
  27. "I Got No" – 1:15

[edit] Personnel

  • Paul Bae - saxophone
  • John Golden - remastering
  • Kevin Army - engineer, producer, remastering, mixing
  • Murray Bowles - photography
  • Vivian Saykes - photography
1989 cover
1989 cover

[edit] References

  1. ^ Highest Rated Albums: 1989 (HTML). Sputnikmusic. Retrieved on November 11, 2006.