Committed to a Bright Future
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Committed to a Bright Future is the name of Dog Fashion Disco
Dog Fashion Disco
Dog Fashion Disco was an experimental metal band, from Rockville, Maryland, that was active from 1996 to 2007.- Biography :Combining many different music styles Dog Fashion Disco was primarily considered an avant-garde metal band...

's 5th studio album
Studio album
A studio album is an album made up of tracks recorded in the controlled environment of a recording studio. A studio album contains newly written and recorded or previously unreleased or remixed material, distinguishing itself from a compilation or reissue album of previously recorded material, or...

 released in 2003. Music videos were made for the songs "The Acid Memoirs" and "Grease".

Track listing



All songs written by Dog Fashion Disco
Dog Fashion Disco
Dog Fashion Disco was an experimental metal band, from Rockville, Maryland, that was active from 1996 to 2007.- Biography :Combining many different music styles Dog Fashion Disco was primarily considered an avant-garde metal band...

 except Grease, written by Barry Gibb
Barry Gibb
Barry Alan Crompton Gibb, CBE , is a singer, songwriter and producer. He was born in the Isle of Man to English parents. With his brothers Robin and Maurice, he formed The Bee Gees, one of the most successful pop groups of all time. The trio got their start in Australia, and found their major...

 of the Bee Gees
Bee Gees
The Bee Gees are a musical group that originally comprised three brothers: Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb. The trio was successful for most of their 40-plus years of recording music, but they had two distinct periods of exceptional success: as a pop act in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and as a...

.
  • The track "China White" only appears as a bonus track
    Bonus track
    In terms of recorded music, a bonus track is a piece of music which has been included on specific releases or reissues of an album. This is most often done as a promotional device, either as an incentive to customers to purchase albums they might otherwise not, or to repurchase albums they already...

     on the European version of Committed To A Bright Future, and is the same as the Erotic Massage
    Erotic Massage
    The Hidden Track is track number 27 on the original CD. Tracks 13 - 26 are blank. Tracks 2, 5 and 12 have appeared on later Dog Fashion Disco albums, in slightly different forms. Track 9 was covered by The Alter Boys...

     version, but with a different outro.
  • The song Déjà Vu is a version of song "En La Noche" from Experiments In Alchemy
    Experiments in Alchemy
    Experiments In Alchemy is the name of Dog Fashion Disco's second album originally released in 1998. It has since been rereleased. The album contains early versions of five songs that would be re-recorded for later albums...

    , but with alternate lyrics.
  • Recent pressings have "Scores for Porn" as a hidden track at the end of the album, while "Grease" is hidden (as always) in negative time before "Love Song for a Witch."
  • The track "The Acid
    LSD
    Lysergic acid diethylamide, abbreviated LSD or LSD-25, also known as lysergide and colloquially as acid, is a semisynthetic psychedelic drug of the ergoline family, well known for its psychological effects which can include altered thinking processes, closed and open eye visuals, synaesthesia, an...

     Memoirs" heavily references Timothy Leary
    Timothy Leary
    Timothy Francis Leary was an American psychologist and writer, known for his advocacy of psychedelic drugs. During a time when drugs like LSD and psilocybin were legal, Leary conducted experiments at Harvard University under the Harvard Psilocybin Project, resulting in the Concord Prison...

    , mentioning him by name and including the lyrics "Tuning in and dropping out
    Turn on, tune in, drop out
    "Turn on, tune in, drop out" is a counterculture phrase popularized by Timothy Leary in 1967. Leary spoke at the Human Be-In, a gathering of 30,000 hippies in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco and uttered the famous phrase, "Turn on, tune in, drop out". In a 1988 interview with Neil Strauss, Leary...

    "
  • "Pogo the Clown" (which originally appeared on Experiments in Alchemy
    Experiments in Alchemy
    Experiments In Alchemy is the name of Dog Fashion Disco's second album originally released in 1998. It has since been rereleased. The album contains early versions of five songs that would be re-recorded for later albums...

    ) is about the infamous serial killer
    Serial killer
    A serial killer, as typically defined, is an individual who has murdered three or more people over a period of more than a month, with down time between the murders, and whose motivation for killing is usually based on psychological gratification...

     clown, John Wayne Gacy
    John Wayne Gacy
    John Wayne Gacy, Jr. was an American serial killer, rapist and clown who sexually assaulted and murdered at least 33 teenage boys and young men between 1972 and 1978. Gacy buried 26 of his victims in the crawlspace of his home, buried three others elsewhere on his property, and discarded the...

    .

Credits

  • Todd Smith – Vocals
  • Stephen Mears – Bass
  • Jeff Siegel – Keyboards
  • Mike "Ollie" Oliver – Drums (although he didn't drum on the album)
  • Greg Combs – Guitar
  • John Ensminger – Drums
  • Matt Rippetoe – Horns
  • Drew Mazurek – Producer, Engineer, Mixer
  • Joe Lambert – Mastering
  • Jeff Cohen – Legal Representation
  • Paul Campanella – Art Design & Layout
  • Angela Boatwright – Photography
  • Paul Cicoria – Title Design
  • Derek Brewer – Manager


Both Greg Combs and John Ensminger played on the album, but quit the band before it was released.
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