''Five Lessons Learned'' is the fourth full-length

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by American punk rock band Swingin' Utters. Released in 1998, it was their second album on Fat Wreck Chords.

Background

This album's title track was used on the

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'', perhaps making it the band's most widely heard song. "I Need Feedback", however, was the only

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released from this album. Also, the song "This Bastard's Life" is featured in music video game ''

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''. The Track "Tell Me Lies" was also featured in a VHS BMX Video called "Dig" Featuring Tim "Fuzzy" Hall and TJ Lavin. The track is played during a Backyard Dirt Session. ''Five Lessons Learned'' is mainly an album of short, fast songs in the ' punk revival' style - "I Need Feedback" borrows a

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from The Damned's " Neat Neat Neat" - but there is also a

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-esque song ("Unpopular Again"), and an Irish folk-style song ("Fruitless Fortunes"), hinting at the band's future direction, and that of the side-project, the

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. The outer and inner cover art is by

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accessed 1 Sep 2008 and features black-and-white shots involving guns, crime and murder scenes (in one picture, the date " 2-14-47" is etched in

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). The presence of the head of the Fat Wreck Chords label,

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, is felt in that he co- produces and plays

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on "Unpopular Again". Another of the many guest musicians is

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, later of

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Track listing

# "Five Lessons Learned" ''(Koski/Aust Koski)'' – 1:55 # "Tell Me Lies" ''(Huber)'' – 2:09 # "A Promise to Distinction" ''(Koski)'' – 2:08 # "The Stooge" ''(Koski)'' – 3:27 # "(The) Picture's Perfect" ''(Huber)'' – 2:37 # "This Bastard's Life" ''(Huber)'' – 3:05 # "As You Start Leaving" ''(Koski)'' – 2:44 # "I Need Feedback" ''(Huber)'' – 3:27 # "Good People" ''(Koski)'' – 2:18 # "As Sure as I'm down" ''(Bonnel)'' – 2:01 # "Untitled 21" ''(Huber)'' – 2:36 # "Unpopular Again" ''(Huber)'' – 3:16 # "New Day Rising" ''(Koski)'' – 1:49 # "Two Jacks Shitty" ''(Bonnel)'' – 1:43 # "Fruitless Fortunes" ''(Koski)'' – 2:52

Personnel

Johnny Bonnel Johnny "Peebucks" Bonnel (born August 7, 1967) is the lead singer and a songwriter of the punk rock band Swingin' Utters and the alternative punk rock band Filthy Thievin' Bastards. His new project is called Druglords of the Avenues. His nicknam ...

(

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) * Max Huber (

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s, vocals,

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on track #8,

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) *

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and percussion) *

Darius Koski Darius Olavi Koski (born January 3, 1971) is the US-American lead guitarist and songwriter of the punk rock band Swingin' Utters, the alternative punk rock bands Filthy Thievin' Bastards and the Re-volts. He also works as a plumber A plumber ...

(guitar, vocals,

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, bass on tracks #1, #4 & #5)

Additional musicians

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(bass on tracks #2, #3, #6, #7, #9, #10, #13 & #14) * Howie Pyro (bass on track #11) *

(bass on track #12) * Rockin Lloyd Tripp (

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on track #15) * Seth Lorenzi (

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and Vox organs,

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) *

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) *

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on tracks #8 and #11) *

Ryan Greene Ryan Greene is an American record producer, sound engineer, former owner of Crush Recording Studios in Scottsdale, Arizona and founder of Area 52 Entertainment in Los Angeles, California. In an over 25-year-long career he has worked with many art ...

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on track #12) *

Spike Slawson Spike Slawson is an American punk rock musician, a member of Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Swingin' Utters, Filthy Thievin' Bastards, Re-Volts, and Uke-Hunt. Early life Having grown up in Pittsburgh, Slawson worked in the mail order departme ...

(backup vocals on tracks #5 and #8) * Morty Okin (

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* Van Hughes (

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) * David Murotake (

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) * Tom Griesser (

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) Image:Chris Shiflett.jpg, Chris Shiflett (who appears on two tracks); seen here as a member of

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References

External links

Official Swingin' Utters website
* "Five Lessons Learned" on Allmusic {{Authority control Swingin' Utters albums 1998 albums Fat Wreck Chords albums Albums produced by Ryan Greene