Double plaidinum

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Double plaidinum
Studio album from Lagwagon

Publication
(s)

August 19, 1997

Label (s) Fat Wreck Chords

Format (s)

CD, vinyl

Genre (s)

Melodycore , skatepunk

Title (number)

12

running time

31 min 12 s

occupation
  • Guitar : Chris Flippin, Ken Stringfellow
  • Bass : Jesse Buglione

production

Ryan Greene

Studio (s)

Motor Studio, San Francisco

chronology
Hoss
( 1995 ) 		Double plaidinum Let's Talk About Feelings
( 1998 )

Double plaidinum is the fourth album of Lagwagon . It was released on August 19, 1997.

Cover

The cover is covered with two different plaid patterns. The album title is a play on words supported by the cover. The album title sounds similar to “Double Platinum” ( Eng. “Double Platinum” ) and thus targets awards such as gold or platinum records depending on the number of sales. Lagwagon want to express that music is not about accumulating a lot of awards, because the bands degenerate into products. Accordingly, the fictitious Double Plaidinum award is satirized in the booklet as " nearly satisfactory sales ".

album

Like its predecessor Hoss , produced by Ryan Greene again, this time in the Motor Studio in San Francisco, the album sounds different from the previous ones. With the new guitarist, heavier riffs can be heard in the songs. The album is more influenced by punk rock than skate punk . The songs sound more melodic, the rhythm is still fast, but not hectic and without constant rhythm changes.

After Derrick Plourde left the band, he was replaced by Dave Raun, who is still a drummer to this day. Guitarist Shawn Dewey has been replaced by Ken Stringfellow. After Double Plaidinum , however, he left the band again.

Track list

  1. Alien 8 - 1:49
  2. Making Friends - 2:15
  3. Unfurnished - 3:16
  4. One Thing To Live - 2:19
  5. Today - 2:05
  6. Confession - 2:53
  7. Bad Scene - 1:17
  8. Smile - 2:05
  9. Twenty-Seven - 2:30
  10. Choke - 2:46
  11. Failure - 2:46
  12. To All My Friends - 2:29

reception

Jeremy Ulrey from Allmusic calls Double Plaidinum an "indie favorite with good reason" because Lagwagon do not want to meet mass tastes ("mass appeal may not be their objective") and become a major label switch. Ulrey awards three out of five stars for the “twelve more solid tracks” (“another dozen solid tracks”).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jeremy Ulrey: Double Plaidinum - Lagwagon. In: allmusic.com. Rovi Corporation, accessed January 16, 2011 .