The Bird and the Bee Sides

The Bird and the Bee Sides
EP by Relient K
Released	July 1, 2008 July 1, 2008 July 2, 2008
Genre	Rock, pop punk, alternative rock
Length	71:09
Label	Gotee
Producer	Mark Lee Townsend
Professional reviews
AbsolutePunk.net (86%) link The Album Project Link Allmusic.com [1] Jesus Freak Hideout Link Punknews.org Link Soul-Audio.com [2]
Relient K chronology
Let it Snow, Baby... Let it Reindeer (2007) The Bird and the Bee Sides (2008) Forget and Not Slow Down (2009)
EP cover
The Nashville Tennis EP cover

The Bird and the Bee Sides is a double EP by the American band Relient K. In the United States it was released on July 1, 2008.^[1]

The double EP is contained on a single disc and contains the The Nashville Tennis EP and The Bird and the Bee Sides. The Nashville Tennis EP (a pun on Nashville, Tennessee) is the band's seventh EP. It includes 13 tracks of new material that allowed the band to explore their sound a bit by allowing other band members, besides Thiessen and Hoopes, to compose/record a few tracks, as well as adding some influences from Country music and Ska. The Bird and the Bee Sides contained tracks which had previously been released on hard-to-come-by records. ^[2][3]

The EPs debuted at #25 on the Billboard Top 200, with approximately 20,000 albums sold.^[4] It peaked at #6 on iTunes Top Albums chart^{[citation needed]}, and #2 on iTunes Top Alternative Albums chart^{[citation needed]}. The song "At Least We Made It This Far" reached #16 on iTunes Top Alternative Songs.^{[citation needed]}

Track listing

The Nashville Tennis EP

#	Title	Sample	Length
1.	"Where Do I Go from Here"	Listen (help·info)	2:15
2.	"The Scene and Herd"	Listen	2:53
3.	"At Least We Made It This Far"	Listen	2:53
4.	"The Last, the Lost, the Least" (written and vocals by bassist, John Warne.)	Listen	2:25
5.	"The Lining Is Silver"		3:41
6.	"There Was No Thief" (re-recorded version of, "The Thief", off the EP Apathetic EP.)		3:22
7.	"No Reaction" (written and vocals by drummer, Ethan Luck.)		1:03
8.	"Curl Up and Die"		4:08
9.	"You'll Always Be My Best Friend" (written and vocals by Matt Hoopes and Matt Thiessen)		1:39
10.	"There Was Another Time in My Life"		2:51
11.	"Beaming"		1:00
12.	"I Just Want You to Know"		2:57
13.	"Bee Your Man" (written and vocals by Jonathan Schneck)		1:38
32:51

The Bird and the Bee Sides

Bonus material

Those who pre-ordered The Bird and the Bee Sides received two "instant song downloads" ("Up and Up" and "The Lining Is Silver"), a Relient K and Gotee Records sticker pack^[5], and a collector's-edition postcard^[5].

Online scavenger hunt

Relient K held a scavenger hunt for tracks that were meant to be made available on The Bird and the Bee Sides, but due to various issues the band decided to release them in an Online Scavenger Hunt.^[6]. The clues lead to "Hope For Every Fallen Man", "Where Do I Go (Acoustic)", and "Between You and Me". Two more songs are intended to be released some time for the scavenger hunt, and were announced to be the demo of "I'm Lion-O" from the band's 1998 demo album All Work & No Play and the unreleased demo of "Sadie Hawkins Dance."

	Relient K "Hope For Every Fallen Man" 30 second sample from Relient K's "Hope For Every Fallen Man". Relient K "Where Do I Go From Here (Acoustic)" 30 second sample from Relient K's "Where Do I Go From Here (Acoustic)". Relient K "Between You and Me" 30 second sample from Relient K's cover of dcTalk's "Between You and Me".
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Personnel

Band

• Matt Thiessen – lead vocals, rhythm guitar, piano
• Matt Hoopes – lead guitar, backing vocals
• Brian Pittman – bass (older tracks)
• Dave Douglas – drums, backing vocals (older tracks)
• Brett Schoneman - drums (on select songs)
• John Warne – bass, backing vocals (newer tracks)
• Jon Schneck – rhythm guitar, backing vocals (newer tracks)
• Ethan Luck – drums (newer tracks)

Other Personnel

• Mark Lee Townsend – producer

Artwork

The artwork was created by Davy Baysinger, formerly of Bleach (band).

References

External links

• Official band website
• The Bird and the Bee Sides at MySpace
• album announcement and more details on Matt Thiessen's Blog