Reissue

Track listing

1. "15 Minutes" (Hanaway) – 3:12
2. "Everything I Ever Wanted To Know About Genocide
   Genocide
   Genocide is defined as "the deliberate and systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group", though what constitutes enough of a "part" to qualify as genocide has been subject to much debate by legal scholars...
   
    I Learned In The Third Grade" (Kelly) – 1:58
3. "The Kitchen Floor" (McCaughan) – 1:25
4. "Police Song" (Hanaway, McCaughan) – 2:48
5. "Upton" (Kelly, spoken word by McCaughan) – 3:03
6. "Restless" (McCaughan) – 3:42
7. "Jonathan Kozol
   Jonathan Kozol
   Jonathan Kozol is a non-fiction writer, educator, and activist, best known for his books on public education in the United States. Kozol graduated from Noble and Greenough School in 1954, and Harvard University summa cum laude in 1958 with a degree in English Literature. He was awarded a Rhodes...
   
    Was Right..." (Kelly, some lines by Hanaway and McCaugahn) – 2:43
8. "We'll Have A Party" (Hanaway) – 4:33
9. "Red Line" (Kelly) – 2:07
10. "I Hear Things Are Just As Bad Down In Lake Erie
    Lake Erie
    Lake Erie is the fourth largest lake of the five Great Lakes in North America, and the tenth largest globally. It is the southernmost, shallowest, and smallest by volume of the Great Lakes and therefore also has the shortest average water residence time. It is bounded on the north by the...
    
    " (Hanaway, McCaughan, Kelly) – 4:34
11. "Fuck You Larry Koesche, I Hope You Starve And Die Someday" (Hanaway) – 3:27
12. "25 Degrees North" (Kelly) – 2:01
13. "Ben Moves To California" (Hanaway, Kelly) – 2:10
14. "The Pope Of Chili-Town" (Kelly) – 1:54
15. "The Nautical Mile" (McCaughan; lyrics co-written with Sean Nader) – 3:38

Personnel

• Brendan Kelly
  Brendan Kelly
  Brendan Kelly may refer to:*Brendan Kelly *Brendan Kelly *Brendan Kelly...
  
   – bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  , vocals
  Singing
  Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
  
  
• Dan Hanaway – guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  , vocals
• Chris McCaughan
  Chris McCaughan
  Chris McCaughan is the guitarist and vocalist in the band The Lawrence Arms. McCaughan was formerly the guitarist for the bands Tricky Dick and The Broadways ....
  
   – guitar, vocals
• Rob DePaola – drums
  Drum kit
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
  
  

Trivia

• The passage spoken by Chris at the close of "Upton" is an excerpt from Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children
  Midnight's Children
  Midnight's Children is a 1981 book by Salman Rushdie about India's transition from British colonialism to independence and the partition of India. It is considered an example of postcolonial literature and magical realism...
  
  . http://www.edurete.org/pd/sele_art.asp?ida=1730
• Brendan Kelly has stated: "Larry Koesche is the manager of a grocery store who prevented some of us from getting food out of the dumpsters behind the store." This ties in with the song's theme of homelessness.
• During a live show http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgHK3P3zsv8 Brendan revealed that the "my friend" from "25 Degrees North" is the same one from the Big City Life / Broken Van
  Broken Van
  Broken Van is a compilation of early and previously unreleased material by The Broadways. With the exception of "Fuck the Church", available only on the Drive-Thru Records compilation Where's the Beef?, it completes the band's discography alongside their sole full-length album Broken Star.Tracks...
  
  song "I Think I Shall Never See..."