Two Lefts Don't Make a Right...but Three Do
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| Studio album by Relient K | |||||
| Released |  March 11, 2003 May 8, 2003 |
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| Recorded | Yellow Studios | ||||
| Genre | Pop punk, Christian rock, Christian pop punk | ||||
| Length | 57:08 | ||||
| Label | Gotee | ||||
| Producer | Mark Lee Townsend, Matt Thiessen | ||||
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The four original covers of the album
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Gold Edition slip cover
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Two Lefts Don't Make a Right...but Three Do (often called Two Lefts) is the third full-length album released by Christian rock band Relient K. The album was nominated for a Grammy for Best Rock Gospel Album, but the award that year ended up being won by Worldwide by Audio Adrenaline. This album was initially released with four different covers, each one depicting a separate car wreck. In November 2003, a fifth cover was released, which showed all four cars in a junkyard. That is now the only version of the CD still in print, although a very small amount the four original covers can still be found. It was also released as a combo pack with Deck the Halls, Bruise Your Hand, and can sometimes still be found that way, mostly around Christmas time. The album peaked at #38 on the Billboard 200.
Two Lefts Don't Make a Right...but Three Do was certified Gold on March 21, 2005 by the RIAA for sales in excess of 500,000 in the United States. It has currently sold around 518,000 in the United States. [1] A Gold Edition of this album was released on October 31, 2006. The idea for a Gold Edition of this album came from Gotee Records, who also released a Gold Edition of The Anatomy of the Tongue in Cheek on the same day. The Gold Edition of this album also has remixed and remastered sound so that it is on par with that of Mmhmm, and it is also enhanced with a music video for the song "Chap Stick, Chapped Lips, and Things Like Chemistry".
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[edit] Track listing
All songs written by Matt Thiessen
- "Chap Stick, Chapped Lips, and Things Like Chemistry" – 3:10
- "Mood Rings" – 3:18
- "Falling Out" – 3:51
- "Forward Motion" – 3:57
- "In Love with the 80s (Pink Tux to the Prom)" – 3:08
- "College Kids" – 3:27
- "Trademark" – 3:54
- "Hoopes I Did It Again" – 3:12
- "Over Thinking" – 4:08
- "I Am Understood?" – 4:23
- "Getting Into You" – 3:24
- "Kids On The Street" – 0:26
- "Gibberish" – 1:45
- "From End To End" – 4:37
- "Jefferson Aero Plane" – 10:20
- "Silly Shoes (Hidden track)"
[edit] Singles
All singles released for Christian radio.
- Chap Stick, Chapped Lips, and Things Like Chemistry
- Forward Motion
- In Love With the 80s (Pink Tux to the Prom)
- I Am Understood?
- Getting Into You
[edit] Credits
[edit] Band
- Matt Thiessen – lead vocals, guitar, piano
- Matt Hoopes – guitar, backing vocals
- Brian Pittman – bass
- Dave Douglas – drums, backing vocals
[edit] Additional Musicians and Personnel
- Ryan Watts - additional vocals on "Forward Motion", "I Am Understood?", and "From End to End"
- DJ Manuel - programming on "Getting Into You"
- Rob Roy Fingerhead - additional guitar and backing vocals on various songs
- Mark Lee Townsend - producer (music)
- Toby McKeehan - executive producer
- Joey Elwood - executive producer
- F. Reid Shippen - mixing
- Dan Shike - assisted mixing
- Randy Leroy - mastering
- Grant Harrison - a&r
- Todd Francis, Aaron Marrs, Eddy Boer, and David Johnson - album artwork/photography
- Adam Grimm, Jake Gridgeway, and Ryan Nutter - "Kids on the Street"
[edit] Notes and Trivia
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- The version of "Jefferson Aero Plane" found here is a new recording of "Jefferson Airplane," which can be found on The Creepy EP. The song was named after the band Jefferson Airplane, but intentionally spelled differently from the band's name, in the same manner as "Relient K," as well as the song "Maybe It's Maybeline." ("Aeroplane" is the correct spelling in British English.)
- There is a hidden track at the end of "Jefferson Aero Plane" entitled "Silly Shoes". It starts about two minutes after the song ends, at 7:19. MC Defenseless, the rapper on the hidden track, is Kevan Peden, a friend of band member Matt Thiessen. Thiessen is the other voice on the track.
- Dave Douglas sings some solos in the song "I Am Understood?". He sings the second half of the first verse, beginning with the line, "And sometimes, I'm so thankful for your loyalty." He also sings some solo parts for the ending of the song, along with Matt Thiessen ("The noise has broken my defense...").
- A tentative track listing for the album originally included the song "More Than Useless", which was instead saved for the album Mmhmm.
- Matt Thiessen said that the album's title was originally just Two Lefts Don't Make a Right, but the band decided to add something more onto the title.
- The four special album covers were not the band's idea, but rather that of Gotee Records.
- The song "Gibberish" contains every letter of the alphabet.
- The "Jeremy" mentioned in the first line of "In Love with the 80s (Pink Tux to the Prom)" is Matt Thiessen's brother, not the drummer Jeremy Thiessen of the band downhere, who is not related.
- At the beginning of the song "Hoopes I Did It Again", after the cell phone ring in the first verse, the two voices conversing in the call are that of Matt Thiessen and Dave Douglas in which they sing back and forth between each other.
- The intros to "Trademark" and "Gibberish" have played during the big reveal on an episode of the television show Pimp My Ride.
- If you look into the top right hand corner of the final release album cover with all four cars, you can see a little person in the crane. That person is supposedly meant to be Matt Hoopes.
- There is a snake hidden somewhere in the picture on all five animated covers.
- The song "College Kids" was featured on the Playstation 2 game "MX Unleashed".
