Don't Know How to Party is the third full-length album by The Mighty Mighty Bosstones

The Mighty Mighty Bosstones

The Mighty Mighty Bosstones are an American ska punk band from Boston, Massachusetts, formed in 1983. Since the band's inception, lead vocalist Dicky Barrett, bassist Joe Gittleman, tenor saxophonist Tim "Johnny Vegas" Burton and dancer Ben Carr have remained constant members...

, which was released in 1993. It is their most heavy metal

Heavy metal music

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-influenced album. Don't Know How to Party was The Mighty Mighty Bosstones' major label debut on Mercury Records

Mercury Records

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, their first venture away from their original label Taang! Records

Taang! Records

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. The album reached #187 on the Billboard 200

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, and spawned several singles, including the Bosstones fan favorite—"Someday I Suppose" (#19 Billboard Modern Rock Tracks

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).

Track listing

1. "Our Only Weapon" – 3:07
2. "Last Dead Mouse" – 3:37
3. "Don't Know How to Party" – 3:14
4. "Someday I Suppose" – 3:28
5. "A Man Without" – 2:47
6. "Holy Smoke" – 2:52
7. "Illegal Left" – 3:11
8. "Tin Soldiers" – 3:24 (Originally by Stiff Little Fingers
   Stiff Little Fingers
   Stiff Little Fingers are a punk rock band from Belfast, Northern Ireland. They formed in 1977, at the height of the Troubles. They started out as a schoolboy band called Highway Star , doing rock covers, until they discovered punk. They split up after six years and four albums, although they...
   
   )
9. "Almost Anything Goes" – 4:11
10. "Issachar" – 3:46
11. "What Was Was Over" – 2:59
12. "Seven Thirty Seven/Shoe Glue" – 4:32

Big Rig 12" Vinyl bonus tracks

13. "Someday I Suppose" – 3:26
14. "Think Again" – 1:56
15. "Lights Out" – 0:49
16. "Police Beat" – 2:09
17. "Simmer Down" – 3:34
18. "Drugs and Kittens"/"I'll Drink to That" (Live) – 6:17
19. "Howwhywuz Howwhyam" (Live) – 2:26
    • Previously available on Ska-Core, the Devil, and More
      Ska-Core, the Devil, and More
      Ska-Core, the Devil, and More is an EP by The Mighty Mighty Bosstones. It was first released in 1993 by Mercury Records. This EP includes one ska and three hardcore covers.-Track listing:#"Someday I Suppose" – 3:26#"Think Again" – 1:56...
      
      EP.

Personnel

• Dicky Barrett
  Dicky Barrett
  Richard Michael Barrett , better known as Dicky Barrett, is the frontman of Ska punk band The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, and the announcer for Jimmy Kimmel Live...
  
    – lead vocals
• Nate Albert
  Nate Albert
  Nathan Albert is an American musician best known as a guitarist for ska-core band The Mighty Mighty Bosstones. He left them to go to Brown University in 2000. Soon he started a new band, The Kickovers, that released one album, Osaka, and disbanded in 2003.On July 15, 2008 he was named the Vice...
  
    – guitar, backing vocals
• Joe Gittleman
  Joe Gittleman
  Joe Gittleman is an American musician, best known as the bass guitar player for The Mighty Mighty Bosstones...
  
    – bass guitar, backing vocals
• Joe Sirois
  Joe Sirois
  Joe Sirois is an American drummer who played with The Mighty Mighty Bosstones from 1991 until their hiatus in 2003. He also played drums for the Boston based band Street Dogs from 2004 to 2007 when he reunited with the Bosstones....
  
    – drums
• Tim "Johnny Vegas" Burton  – saxophone, backing vocals
• Kevin Lenear – saxophone, backing vocals
• Dennis Brockenborough
  Dennis Brockenborough
  Dennis Brockenborough is an African-American musician from Delaware. He played trombone in the Mighty Mighty Bosstones for ten years and was an important contributor to that's band's brass instrument-driven skacore sound....
  
    – trombone, backing vocals
• Ben Carr – Bosstone, backing vocals

• Tony Platt
  Tony Platt
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    – producer, engineer
• Brian Dwyer – trumpet
• Molly Ackerman – vocals
• Matt Rice – vocals
• Darryl Jenifer  – vocals
• Mike Teelucksingh – talking
• Geoff Hunt – mixing
• Eric Gast
  Eric Gast
  Eric M. Gast is an American music industry professional - record producer, mixer, engineer, and recording studio designer - and founder and CEO of a nonprofit public health care charity. Gast was born in New Jersey and raised in New York City...
  
  – mixing assistant
• Ben Argueta – art direction
• Larry Stessel – design
• Arthur Cohen – photography