Losing Streak
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- This article is about the ska punk album. For the sports usage, see losing streak (sport)Losing streak (sport)In sports, a losing streak is an uninterrupted string of contests lost by a team or individual. A losing streak can last as few as two games, or it may last much longer...
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Losing Streak is the third album by ska punk
Ska punk
Ska punk is a fusion music genre that combines ska and punk rock. It achieved its highest level of commercial success in the United States in the late 1990s. Ska-core is a subgenre of ska punk, blending ska with hardcore punk.The characteristics of ska punk vary, due to the fusion of contrasting...
band Less Than Jake
Less Than Jake
Less Than Jake is an American ska punk band from Gainesville, Florida. Originally formed in 1992 as a power pop trio, the band evolved into a hybrid of ska punk. Less Than Jake have also been cited as showing influences from a wide variety of genres including post-grunge, heavy metal, alternative...
and the band's first album with Capitol Records
Capitol Records
Capitol Records is a major United States based record label, formerly located in Los Angeles, but operating in New York City as part of Capitol Music Group. Its former headquarters building, the Capitol Tower, is a major landmark near the corner of Hollywood and Vine...
. The album was recorded at Criteria Studios in Miami, Florida
Miami, Florida
Miami is a city located on the Atlantic coast in southeastern Florida and the county seat of Miami-Dade County, the most populous county in Florida and the eighth-most populous county in the United States with a population of 2,500,625...
and Mirror Image Studios in Gainesville, Florida
Gainesville, Florida
Gainesville is the largest city in, and the county seat of, Alachua County, Florida, United States as well as the principal city of the Gainesville, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area . The preliminary 2010 Census population count for Gainesville is 124,354. Gainesville is home to the sixth...
, both with producer Michael Rosen. Drums and bass were recorded at the former, while everything else was recorded at the latter. The album includes re-recordings of "Jen Doesn't Like Me Anymore" and "Johnny Quest Thinks We're Sellouts", both of which appeared on Pezcore
Pezcore
Pezcore is the first full-length album released by the ska punk band Less Than Jake, originally released on Dill Records in 1995. The album was later reissued on Asian Man, but was missing two tracks found on the Dill version .In 2002, Less Than Jake released a tenth anniversary version of Pezcore...
. Losing Streak was re-released with Hello Rockview
Hello Rockview
Hello Rockview is the third major album written by ska punk band Less Than Jake. It was released on October 6, 1998, and is their second and final album on Capitol Records. The album was recorded at Mirror Image Studios in Gainesville, Florida, once again with producer Howard Benson. This is the...
as a double album in 2000.
The album reached #18 on the Top Heatseekers
Top Heatseekers
Top Heatseekers refers to either of two separate "Breaking and Entering" music charts issued weekly by Billboard Magazine: the Heatseekers Albums chart or the Heatseekers Songs chart. They were introduced by Billboard in 1993 with the purpose of highlighting the sales by new and developing musical...
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Losing Streak's music videos
The album's first track, "Automatic" was featured in a music video on MTV alternative music showcase 120 Minutes120 Minutes
120 Minutes is a television show in the United States dedicated to alternative music, originally airing on MTV from 1986 to 2000, and then on MTV's sister channel MTV2 from 2001 to 2003....
and Dr. 90210
Dr. 90210
Dr. 90210 is an American reality television series focusing on plastic surgery in the wealthy suburb of Beverly Hills in Los Angeles, Southern California. The series began its run in 2004. Dr...
. The video consisted of fan video footage from shows in Gainesville, Florida
Gainesville, Florida
Gainesville is the largest city in, and the county seat of, Alachua County, Florida, United States as well as the principal city of the Gainesville, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area . The preliminary 2010 Census population count for Gainesville is 124,354. Gainesville is home to the sixth...
and Chicago
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
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A controversial video was also made for "Dopeman". MTV
MTV
MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....
has refused to air the video allegedly due to drug references. Band supporters maintain that the song has less references to drugs than many videos played on MTV and is actually commenting on the negative aspects of a "Dopeman" lifestyle. In addition claims have been made that the band Sugar Ray
Sugar Ray
Sugar Ray is a band from Orange County, California. The band, starting off more as an alternative metal band, first gained fame in 1997 with their release of the song "Fly". This song's success, coupled with its pop rock sound that was quite different from the rest of their material at the time,...
copied the video's concept in one of their own music videos.
Hidden track
Losing Streak features a hidden trackHidden track
In the field of recorded music, a hidden track is a piece of music that has been placed on a CD, audio cassette, vinyl record or other recorded medium in such a way as to avoid detection by the casual listener...
accessible only by rewinding the CD about a minute and a half before the beginning of track 1. The track features banter spoken by former band mascot "Howie J. Reynolds", an elderly Gainesville local, similar in concept to Sublime
Sublime (band)
Sublime was an American ska punk band from Long Beach, California, formed in 1988. The band's line-up, unchanged until their breakup, consisted of Bradley Nowell , Eric Wilson and Bud Gaugh . Michael "Miguel" Happoldt also contributed on a few Sublime songs, such as "New Thrash." Lou Dog, Nowell's...
's recorded rantings of certified lunatic Raleigh Theodore Sakers on Robbin' the Hood
Robbin' the Hood
Robbin' the Hood is the second album by the Southern California ska punk band Sublime, which was released in 1994.- Context and production values :...
. This leads into track 1, which begins with him stating, "This is the old dude, Howie J. Reynolds, and you're listening to "Less Than Jake".
Not all CDs have this hidden track.
Track listing
- "Automatic" – 2:06
- "Happyman" – 1:59
- "9th at Pine" – 1:56
- "Sugar in Your Gas Tank" – 2:06
- "Shindo" – 2:17
- "107" – 1:59
- "Johnny Quest Thinks We're Sellouts" – 2:49
- "Krazy Glue" – 1:58
- "Never Going Back to New Jersey" – 3:18
- "How's My Driving, Doug Hastings?" – 1:24
- "Just Like Frank" – 1:50
- "Ask the Magic 8 Ball" – 2:15
- "Dopeman" – 2:06
- "Jen Doesn't Like Me Anymore" – 2:50
- "Rock-n-Roll Pizzeria" – 2:00
- "Lockdown" – 2:33
- "Losing Streak" (Japan release only) – 1:57
- "Mixology of Tom Collins" (Japan release only) – 2:07
Personnel
- Chris Demakes - guitar, vocals
- Roger ManganelliRoger ManganelliRoger Manganelli is the bassist and one of the two lead vocalists for ska-punk band Less Than Jake. He is also the lead vocalist and guitarist for Rehasher, and drummer for Greenhorn...
- bass guitar, guitar, vocals - Vinnie FiorelloVinnie FiorelloVinnie Fiorello is an American drummer, lyricist and founding member of the ska punk band Less Than Jake. As a child, Vinnie's family owned a dog named Jake who was "treated like a king" according to the band's website FAQ page. As a result, everything in the house became "Less Than Jake",...
- drums, lyrics - Buddy Schaub - trombone
- Jessica Mills - alto saxophone
- Derron Nuhfer - bari saxophone