If Life Were a Result, We'd All Be Dead is the fifth and final full-length album released by the North Vancouver punk band d.b.s. It was released by Crap Records in February 2000. Although their final full-length, the songs on this album were actually recorded in 1997, before their previous album.[2] The songs were intended to be released on various singles, but this plan never came to fruition.[2]
| If Life Were a Result, We'd All Be Dead | ||||
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| Released | February 2000[1] | |||
| Recorded | 1997[2] | |||
| Genre | Punk rock Post-hardcore | |||
| Length | 28:12 | |||
| Label | Crap Records | |||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Discorder | (ambivalent)[3] |
| Exclaim! | (ambivalent)[4] |
The band's music on this album has been likened to Lifetime and Jawbreaker, marking an "awkward transition" from the political lyrics of I Is for Insignificant to the more personal lyrics of Some Boys Got It, Most Men Don't.[5]
Track listing
edit- "Will You Accept the Charges?" – 3:21
- "Galleon's Lap" – 2:51
- "The Ethics of Camping" – 2:42
- "Tsawwassen" – 2:25
- "Scavenger Hunt" – 3:49
- "Immovable Stones" – 2:26
- "The Night She Left" – 3:53
- "Mayday" – 3:09
- "Dogma Schmogma" – 3:41
Personnel
edit- Andy Dixon – guitar, backing vocals
- Jesse Gander – vocals
- Paul Patko – drums, backing vocals
- Dhani Borges – bass guitar
References
edit- ^ d.b.s. news—January 1998 to June 2001
- ^ a b c Rob Ferraz (September 2000). "Pop Rocks: If Life Were A Result We'd All Be Dead". Exclaim!. Toronto. Archived from the original on 2012-07-14. Retrieved 20 January 2009.
This contains unreleased tracks recorded in 1997, before the Some Boys Got It Most Men Don't LP. The songs were meant to appear on various singles that, in true punk style, never got released.
- ^ Discorder review[permanent dead link]
- ^ Exclaim! review
- ^ Godfrey J. Leung (August 2000). "Discorder August 2000 Reviews". Discorder. Vancouver. Retrieved 20 January 2009. [dead link]
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