Meshing a harder pop-edged sound with a mess of tongue-in-cheek references to their own silliness, Reel Big Fish's debut full-length is a fun romp through ska twists on...
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Although it occasionally sinks in its own smirky, frat-boy humor, Reel Big Fish's debut Turn the Radio Off is a muscular blend of metal, ska and punk. The group's sound is...
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Not much differentiates Why Do They Rock So Hard?, Reel Big Fish's second album, from its first album, Turn the Radio Off. They both share a similar sense of smirky,...
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With the insanely catchy hit "Sell Out" last year, Orange County's Reel Big Fish moved up the food chain of the ska-core scene. But their mutation of ska-core,...
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Why do Reel Big Fish rock so hard? Because they can, of course. Back when these fish were mere smelts, they had swam along a very different circuit than the ska scene,...
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"I'll never be a rock and roll star," Reel Big Fish's Aaron Barrett sweetly sings out in frustration at his band's inability to reach pin-up proportions on "I'll Never Be."...
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One for the fans. Back in 1995, Reel Big Fish scraped together the money to self-release their self-produced debut album, Everything Sucks. The record swam quickly offshore,...
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One of the strange things that's happened to many of the ska-punk and neo-punk bands of the '90s is that as they've grown up and gotten to their third album, they start...
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We're Not Happy 'Til You're Not Happy is Reel Big Fish's first album in three years. But if the title isn't a giveaway, this feels more like an embittered farewell than a...
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