Bring Your Own Stereo
Studio album by
ReleasedAug 24, 1999
Recorded1999
GenreAlternative rock, alternative metal, post-grunge
Length45:54
LabelRocket Records/Island Def Jam[1][2]
ProducerJim Wirt
Jimmie's Chicken Shack chronology
Pushing the Salmanilla Envelope
(1997)
Bring Your Own Stereo
(1999)
Re.present
(2004)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[3]
The Baltimore Sun[4]
The Indianapolis Star[1]

Bring Your Own Stereo is a studio album by Jimmie's Chicken Shack, released in 1999.[5][6]

It contains the single "Do Right", which peaked at No. 12 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart.[7] The album peaked at No. 153 on the Billboard 200.[8]

Production

Bring Your Own Stereo is a loose concept album about frontman Jimi Haha's ex-girlfriend.[9] The album was produced by Jim Wirt; it was mixed by Tom Lord-Alge.[10]

Critical reception

The Indianapolis Star called the album "an eclectic mix of slacker rock, ska, tame punk and acoustic pop with faux hip-hop grooves."[1] The Charleston Daily Mail wrote: "Owing as much to '80s New Wave pop as to the band's usual blitz of guitar-heavy, slacker-ska, the Maryland quartet has turned down the crunch and aimed for loftier goals: Songs based on melody rather than guitar riffs."[11]

Track listing

All tracks by Jimi Haha

  1. "Spiraling" - 3:45
  2. "Lazy Boy Dash" - 3:13
  3. "Do Right" - 3:02
  4. "String Of Pearls" - 3:55
  5. "Ooh" - 3:04
  6. "Let's Get Flat" - 3:38
  7. "Trash" - 3:08
  8. "Fill In The Blank" - 3:20
  9. "Face It" - 3:20
  10. "Silence Again" - 2:59
  11. "Pure" - 4:29
  12. "Waiting" - 4:04
  13. "30 Days" - 3:57

Personnel

  • Greg Calbi – Mastering
  • Randy Cole – Photography
  • Double D – Fiddle
  • Steve Ewing – Background vocals
  • Stefanie Fife – Cello
  • Jill Greenberg – Photography
  • Jimi Haha – Fiddle, Art Direction
  • Erin Haley – Project Coordinator
  • Femio Hernández – Mixing Assistant
  • Donat Kazarinoff – Tambourine, Background vocals, Engineer
  • Che Colovita Lemon – Bass
  • David Leonard – Mixing
  • Chris Lord-Alge – Mixing
  • Tom Lord-Alge – Mixing
  • Declan Morrell – Project Coordinator
  • Novi Novog – Viola
  • Justin Risley – Assistant Engineer
  • Matt Silva – Mixing Assistant
  • Sipple – Snare drum
  • P.J. Smith – Tambourine
  • Jim Wirt – Producer, Engineer
  • Kathleen Wirt – Project Coordinator
  • Suzanne Ybarra – Project Coordinator

References

  1. 1 2 3 Slosarek, Steve (20 Feb 2000). "Jimmie's Chicken Shack 'Bring Your Own Stereo'". The Indianapolis Star. p. I6.
  2. "CNN - There's a lot going on inside Jimmie's Chicken Shack - October 5, 1999". www.cnn.com.
  3. AllMusic review
  4. Considine, J.D. (26 Aug 1999). "Jimmie's Chicken Shack tries to mix energy with melody". The Baltimore Sun. Live. p. 8.
  5. "Artist Biography by John Bush". AllMusic. Retrieved 6 July 2021.
  6. "Jimmie's Chicken Shack's Che Colovita Lemon". MTV News.
  7. "Jimmie's Chicken Shack to celebrate 'Stereo's' 15th year". The Baltimore Sun. Retrieved 6 July 2021.
  8. Whitburn, Joel (2001). Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Albums, 1955-2001. Record Research. p. 429.
  9. Ghorbani, Lisa (Oct 28, 1999). "Jimmie's Chicken Shack". Rolling Stone (824): 33.
  10. "With 'Holehearted' approval: Jimi Haha to release solo album". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 6 July 2021.
  11. Lipton, Michael (16 Dec 1999). "CD Review". Charleston Daily Mail. p. 2D.
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