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I’ll trade you for the shotglass.

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I just received my order. It’s not signed and there’s no shotglass included, although I was order 86 in the first 100. goddamnit.

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Was anyone thinking about uploading the bigger better bonus deluxe unique tracks?

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After last night's show in Boston I don't think I'm going to go to any Reel Big Fish shows until I know they're going to play some new songs. I'm so tired of the same set list. It was nice to hear 241… but it's not enough.

When Aaron started playing Cannibal my heart raced, hoping that they might actually play it. It sounded so beautiful live and the build up seemed to be catching the crowd's interest… but then it was Beer and the show returned to its cliché. They're still talented musicians and all, but the shows lack the magic that originally attracted me.

Bottom line neither myself nor the band are drunk enough to have as much fun as we used to have.

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A drunken, drug induced rage where Aaron storms offstage after breaking instruments… Sorry that joke really wasn't that clear.

When will the video of Yo Gabba Gabba surface?

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I expected [link=http://www.punknews.org/review/3468]this.[/link]

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I guess he actually does love tacky shirts?

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The new song is fabulous! If their new album is anything like it I would be very happy. Ehh mixing though.

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Well said, Sonic Libido.

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I'm really glad Aaron changed "fag" to "man" personally.

I get it. The song was written in the perspective of a meathead in the pit. They're not actually a band that preaches hate (or moshing for that matter.) But for people who were being introduced to the band and their sense of humor for the first time may not see it that way.

Fag being a word full of so much hate I really am glad to see that go.

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Reel Big Fish have never had a perfect album. I hate people thinking that We're Not Happy is their worst album or that it's a digression from bouncy-fun-happy-ska days. It's another artifact attesting to RBF's musical ability and Aaron's vision for the band. We're Not Happy has some tracks on it that we all could have done without, but I can't think of a Reel Big Fish album that doesn't. It strikes me as an album full of aggression and feeling. Something I wish the other albums had. MFNATCFF is emotionally stale, in my opinion. Still a good album. But it would have been able to stand up against Why Do They Rock So Hard (I argue this is their best album) had their been more "feeling" substantial tracks.

I mean, what do I know? But I really don't feel as though We're Not Happy gets enough credit as an album full of substance and effort. It certainly has more good things to be said about it than Monkies – once again, my opinion.

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Dan's Facebook says:

RELEASE WILL INCLUDE 22 NEWLY RE-RECORDED HITS & FAN FAVORITES

PLUS A SPECIAL 14-TRACK BONUS ACOUSTIC DISC

BAND A MAINSTAGE FAVE AT THIS SUMMER’S VAN WARPED TOUR

June 23, 2010—Perennial ska/punk jesters REEL BIG FISH, a headliner on this summer’s Van Warped Tour (July 13-August 15) and Rock Ridge Music, will be releasing A Best Of Us For The Rest Us – a 22-track compilation of newly re-recorded renditions of hits and fan favorites (in addition to a special bonus 14-track acoustic disc), exclusively through Best Buy on July 20. A European release date will be announced soon.

Formed in the suburbs of Orange County, CA in the early ‘90s, REEL BIG FISH has gone on to release half a dozen full-length studio releases, headline countless tours in North America (as well as Europe, Asia and Latin America) and amass combined sales of well over a million albums all while keeping their sly wit and wicked sense of humor intact.

A Best of Us for the Rest of Us track listing:

1. Sell Out 3:53
2. Take on Me 3:18
3. Beer 3:51
4. She Has a Girlfriend Now 3:07
5. Everything Sucks 2:53
6. Trendy 2:38
7. I Want Your Girlfriend to be My Girlfriend Too 2:48
8. In the Pit 2:43
9. The Set Up (you need this) 4:19
10. Somebody Hates Me 3:24
11. You Don't Know 3:15
12. Suckers (this one's for you) 3:39
13. Where Have You Been 4:00
14. Good Thing 3:24
15. Ban the Tube Top 3:03
16. Don't Start a Band 3:18
17. Your Guts (I hate 'em) 2:01
18. Another F.U. Song 1:03
19. New Version of You (new version) 3:20
20. Party Down 4:07
21. Slow Down (single version) 4:20
22. Brown Eyed Girl 3:02

Bonus Skacoustic disc:

1. Sell Out (skacoustic) 3:56
2. Take on Me (skacoustic) 3:14
3. Beer (skacoustic) 3:51
4. She Has a Girlfriend Now (skacoustic) 3:04
5. Another F.U. Song (skacoustic) 1:03
6. Your Guts (i hate 'em) (skacoustic) 1:55
7. Suckers (skacoustic) 3:39
8. Where have you been (skacoustic) 4:01
9. Don't Start a Band (skacoustic) 3:17
10. S.R. (skacoustic) 1:37
11. 241 (skacoustic) 2:41
12. the Kids Don't Like it (skacoustic) 3:24
13. Scott's a Dork (skacoustic) 3:04
14. Nothin' (skacoustic) 2:06

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I like both Peter Bones and Everything Is Cool because they're most musically risk takers considering what most fans come to expect from RBF. I like when they violate our expectations. I like it when they alienate fans because they're trying something a little different.

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I love it. The build-up is masterful. It sounds unlike anything RBF has ever recorded, and makes me miss when RBF would try new things more often.
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Like Everything Is Cool.

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