Cheer Up!

by Reel Big Fish

Cheer Up! cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 25 June 2002
  • Label: Jive Records
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:02:27
  • Community rating: 3.18/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

On 'Cheer Up!', Reel Big Fish lean into ska punk, building the record around energetic melodies and melodic rhythmic movement. Its sound is defined by accumulation and release, with individual tracks held together by a consistent tonal palette.

Genres

Descriptors: melodic, breakup, fast, abrasive

Tracklist

  1. Good Thing (3:38)
  2. Somebody Loved Me (3:19)
  3. Ban The Tube Top (3:10)
  4. Cheer Up (2:43)
  5. Where Have You Been? (4:01)
  6. Suckers (3:56)
  7. What Are Friends For (3:35)
  8. A Little Doubt Goes A Long Way (3:20)
  9. Dateless Losers (3:47)
  10. Valerie (3:54)
  11. Rock 'N' Roll Is Bitchin' (2:53)
  12. New York, New York (3:25)
  13. Sayonara Senorita (3:25)
  14. Boss DJ (3:09)
  15. Brand New Hero (3:39)
  16. Drunk Again (4:49)
  17. (silence) (2:30)
  18. Give It To Me (3:14)

Credits

  • Reel Big Fish - primary artist, arranged by, written-by
  • Matt Wong - band [reel big fish is:], bass, other [all around cool guy]
  • Carlos De La Garza - band [reel big fish is:], drums, percussion [percussion, roundy poundies]
  • Dan Regan - band [reel big fish is:], trombone, vocals [various screams[, other [seagull trainer]
  • Robert Barrett - cover
  • Iki Levy - musician [additional musician], samples [percussion sampkes]
  • Tyler Jones - musician [additional musician], trumpet [really, really, really, ridiculously good trumpet]
  • Tavis Werts - musician [additional musician], trumpet, flugelhorn

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