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Baseball, But Better: Say Anything Compile Early Works on Three Discs

January 2, 2013 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Say Anything All My Friends Are EnemiesWho says January is a dull month for catalogue music? Say Anything are starting the year off with a triple-disc limited edition box set chronicling much of their early career.

All My Friends Are Enemies: Early Rarities chronicles lead singer/songwriter Max Bemis' L.A. band in the two years before their signing to Doghouse Records in 2003 and releasing breakthrough album Say Anything...is a Real Boy the following year. (From 2005 to 2009, the group was signed to J/RCA Records, re-releasing ...is a Real Boy in 2006 as well as double album In Defense of the Genre (2007) and a self-titled LP in 2009; indie label Equal Vision handled last year's Anarchy, My Dear.)

The set, limited to 5,000 copies, will feature the band's first self-released EP, 2000's Junior Varsity (self-reissued and expanded as In Your Dreams (2002)); their proper debut, Baseball: An Album by Sayanything (2001) and 2002's Menorah/Majora EP. Also featured in the box are some 18 further odds and ends, including much of the "Dormroom Demos," recorded the same time as Menorah/Majora in Bemis' Sarah Lawrence College dorm.

It's shaping up to be a busy year for Bemis: in a recent two-part chat (here and here) with The Alternative Press, he discussed at length the recent departure of longtime Say Anything drummer Coby Linder, new projects with his wife including his first child and a new band, Perma, and the promise of new Say Anything music (with a possible detour to celebrate the 10-year mark for ...is a Real Boy) in 2014. In the meantime, All My Friends Are Enemies is out January 22. Order it at Amazon U.S. here and Amazon U.K. here and hit the jump for the full track breakdown.

All My Friends Are Enemies: Early Rarities (Equal Vision, 2013)

Disc 1: Baseball - An Album by Sayanything (originally self-released, 2001)

  1. Colorblind
  2. Showdown at P-Town
  3. Into the Night
  4. All My Friends
  5. Ants in My Pants
  6. The Ocean Liner Incident
  7. Mackdaddy
  8. Shameless
  9. That's That (Do What We Want)
  10. Resounding
  11. Rats
  12. Dreaming of Manhattan
  13. "Sure, Baby...Hold Back."
  14. The Last Great Punk Rock Song
  15. Where the Hurt Is

Disc 2: Menorah/Majora EP (originally self-released, 2002) and Dormroom Demos (previously commercially unreleased)

  1. Walk Through Hell
  2. You Help Them
  3. Try to Remember, Forget
  4. By Tonight
  5. Baseball, But Better
  6. Transylvanian
  7. I Want to Know Your Plans
  8. For the Silent
  9. All This Fashion
  10. Until the Bombs
  11. The Keg is Bleeding!
  12. Signal the Riflemen
  13. A Boston Peace
  14. The Great Awakening
  15. A Certain Type of Genius
  16. My Bare Hands
  17. Nudity

Disc 3: Junior Varsity and Other Early Rarities

  1. Baseball, But Better (2012 Acoustic Version)
  2. The Presidential Suite
  3. Thoughts on a Liberal Education
  4. A Boston Peace (Brett Gurewitz Mix)
  5. Consigliore
  6. Jessie and My Whetstone
  7. The Last Great Punk Rock Song
  8. Dreaming of Manhattan
  9. She Got Away
  10. High School Low
  11. All My Friends are Enemies
  12. Sappy
  13. Anti-Anti

Disc 3, Tracks 7-10 released as Junior Varsity EP (self-released, 2000). Disc 3, Track 11 released on In Your Dreams EP (self-released, 2001). All other tracks previously commercially unreleased.

Categories: News Formats: Box Sets Tags: Say Anything

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