Shingo Japanese Remix Album

Infobox Album |
Name = Shingo Japanese Remix Album
Type = Remix Album
Artist = The Vandals


Released = 2005
Recorded =
Genre = Punk rock
Length = 48:11
Label = Kung Fu
Producer = Shingo Asari
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|2.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:71q67u5050j3 link]
Last album = "Hollywood Potato Chip"
(2004)
This album = "Shingo Japanese Remix Album"
(2005)
Next album =

"Shingo Japanese Remix Album" is an album of songs by the southern California punk rock band The Vandals remixed and re-interpreted by Japanese DJ Shingo Asari, released in 2005 by Kung Fu Records. Asari had been tinkering with Vandals songs for several years and had sent several of his remixes to Kung Fu, who had posted them on their website for Vandals fans to download. The band was impressed by his takes on their songs and used a remixed medley he had made of many of their most popular songs as an introduction to their live shows. Finally in 2005 Shingo was given license to remix several newer Vandals songs and to release them as an album through Kung Fu.

All of the songs presented are remixes of songs from the Vandals' two most recent albums, "Internet Dating Superstuds" and "Hollywood Potato Chip". However, "hidden" at the end of the album is an unlisted track which is a remixed medley of many of the band's most popular songs from the 1990s.

Track listing

All songs written by Warren Fitzgerald except where indicated.
#"How They Getcha'" (Gold mix)
#"43210-1" (0223 mix)
#"Appreciate My Honesty" (MC Freshman mix)
#"Be a Good Robot" (Rhythm Rovo mix)
#"Disproportioned Head" (Bistrot 2000 mix)
#"Little Weirdo" (Shuttle 9 mix)
#"When I Say You I Mean Me" (Clockworked mix) (Quackenbush)
#"The Unseen Tears of the Albacore" (Last mix) (Escalante/Fitzgerald)
#"I'm Becoming You" (CJB mix)
#"My Neck, My Back" (Ikioi mix)
#"Lord of the Dance" (Do Da Swing! mix)
*hidden track: medley mix of Vandals songs from the 1990s

Performers

*Dave Quackenbush - vocals
*Warren Fitzgerald - guitar, backing vocals
*Joe Escalante - bass, backing vocals
*Josh Freese - drums
*Shingo Asari - DJ, remixing

Album information

*Record label: Kung Fu Records
*All songs remixed and produced by Shingo Asari
*Original songs produced by Warren Fitzgerald
*Mastered by Jon St. James
*All songs copyright 2005 by Puppety Frenchman Music, SEAC
*Art direction and illustrations by Tony Vitali

ong information

All information listed here is derived from song lyrics, album liner notes, and band member interviews and commentary (particularly those in the Vandals DVD "Live at the House of Blues").

*"How They Getcha" (Warren Fitzgerald)This song rails against the deceptive methods used by so-called psychics to lure in their customers.

*"43210-1" (Warren Fitzgerald)A humorous anthem that encourages several minor and seemingly meaningless acts of rebellion.

*"Appreciate My Honesty" (Warren Fitzgerald)In this song the singer, after putting on pretensions in order to win the affections of a girl, is ready to stop acting polite and reveal his true nature to her, which is more selfish and rude.

*"Be a Good Robot" (Warren Fitzgerald)The song deals with people who dress and act in a "rebellious" fashion, stating that they are in fact being lulled by society into a false sense of rebellion and are really simply serving the needs of the society against which they imagine they are rebelling.

*"Disproportioned Head" (Warren Fitzgerald)In this song a man who suffers from a birth defect causing him to have an unusually large cranium, and is fed up with people pointing it out and trying to cover it up.

*"Little Weirdo" (Warren Fitzgerald)The song deals with a strange individual who constructs a rocket ship out of household items that he believes will take him into outer space.

*"When I Say You I Mean Me" (Dave Quackenbush)This song offers life advice from a third-person perspective, but then shifts the focus inward to reveal that the singer is actually giving the advice to himself.

*"The Unseen Tears of the Albacore" (Joe Escalante and Warren Fitzgerald)This song addresses environmentalists and vegetarians, suggesting that it is wrong to value one type of animal's life over another. The song refers specifically to the publicity generated over dolphins being caught in tuna nets, while no one seems to care about fates of the tuna themselves. It suggests that it is wrong not to show equal concern for the fish, just because they are less anthropomorphic and cannot be trained to perform amusing behaviors.

*"I'm Becoming You" (Warren Fitzgerald)This song deals with a person that is so obsessed with their love interest that they actually wish to become the person they are infatuated with.

*"My Neck, My Back" (Warren Fitzgerald)In this song the singer declares his plan to intentionally injure himself while on the job, so that he can stop working and live on his workman's compensation benefits.

*"Lord of the Dance" (Warren Fitzgerald)A reference to the musical dance production of the same name and its star, Michael Flatley, using various analogies to compare him to Jesus.