Operation Phoenix

Operation Phoenix
Studio album by Good Riddance
Released	May 4, 1999
Recorded	February, 1999 The Blasting Room, Fort Collins, Colorado, U.S.
Genre	Punk rock
Length	39:31
Label	Fat Wreck Chords
Producer	Bill Stevenson Stephen Egerton Jason Livermore
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Good Riddance chronology
Ballads From the Revolution (1998) Operation Phoenix (1999) The Phenomenon of Craving EP (2000)

Operation Phoenix is the fourth full-length album from Californian punk rock band, Good Riddance. It was released on May 4, 1999 on Fat Wreck Chords and marked a complete change in recording location and production team from the previous three albums. Legendary hardcore drummer Bill Stevenson, of Descendents and Black Flag fame, took the reins along with Stephen Egerton and Jason Livermore – the latter would be a long-time partner in many hardcore punk soundboard projects.

They also switched from San Francisco to Fort Collins, Colorado. The song "30 Day Wonder" was featured in the skateboarding video game Tony Hawk's American Wasteland.

Track listing

• All songs written by Russ Rankin, unless stated

1. "Shadows of Defeat" – 2:13
2. "Blueliner" – 1:38
3. "The Hardest Part" – 1:44
4. "Eighteen Seconds" – 0:31
5. "Heresy, Hypocrisy, and Revenge" (Luke Pabich, Rankin) – 2:22
6. "Self-Fulfilling Catastrophe" – 2:07
7. "Article IV" – 3:00
8. "Indoctrination" – 1:10
9. "Shit-Talking Capitalists" – 1:26
10. "Letters Home" – 2:22
11. "30 Day Wonder" (Pabich, Rankin) – 1:52
12. "Dear Cammi" – 1:04
13. "Yesterday Died – Tomorrow Won't Be Born" – 1:38
14. "Winning the Hearts and Minds" – 2:19
15. "A Time and a Place" – 1:50
16. "Second Coming" (Battalion Of Saints) – 1:26
17. "After the Nightmare" (Pabich, Rankin) – 10:50

Credits

• Russ Rankin – vocals
• Luke Pabich – guitar
• Chuck Platt – bass
• Sean Sellers – drums

• Recorded and mixed in February, 1999 at the Blasting Room, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
• Produced, engineered, and mixed by Bill Stevenson, Stephen Egerton, and Jason Livermore

Trivia

• The voice talking at the beginning of the first song "Shadows of Defeat" is a Martin Luther King's speech.
• The voices talking at the beginning of the song "Heresy, Hypocrisy, and Revenge" are quotes from the movie Some Kind Of Wonderful.
• The voice talking at the beginning of the song "Article IV" is Mario Savio's speech "put your bodies upon the gears" address given at Sproul Hall, University of California, Berkeley on December 2, 1964.
• The voice talking at the end of the song "Article IV" is a quote by Ronald Reagan.
• The voice talking at the beginning of the song "Winning the Hearts and Minds" is a speech by Noam Chomsky's "Propaganda Model in Media Analysis".
• The ghost track is a cover of Black Flag's "My War".

External links

• Fat Wreck Chords album page
• Good Riddance official website
• Fat Wreck Chords band page