Energy (album)

Energy
Studio album by Operation Ivy
Released	Original: 1989 CD: 1991
Recorded	September 1987 - January 1989
Genre	Ska-core
Length	49:51
Label	Lookout!
Producer	Operation Ivy
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link
Operation Ivy chronology
Hectic (1988) Energy (1989)

Energy is the only full album released by the ska-core band Operation Ivy. It has been cited as one of the most important albums of the ska-core genre. Energy was released twice, the second time with the addition of eight tracks. The original release (1989) was only nineteen tracks (the first nineteen listed below) and released only on Vinyl and Cassette. The 1991 CD release added tracks from other albums. Tracks twenty through twenty-five were originally on the Operation Ivy EP Hectic, while the tracks "Officer" and "I Got No" were taken from the Turn It Around compilation. In 2004 Hellcat Records re-released the nineteen track version as a 12" LP picture disc. In 2006, the album was ranked as the highest rated punk album ever on Sputnikmusic.^[1]

Recording and style

Operation Ivy tried to record Energy at Gilman but because of problems, they set out to record at Sound and Vision in San Francisco, in January 1989. As Hectic, Energy had outtakes that were later put into a CD called Unreleased Energy. Energy has been said to be more mature and less hardcore than Hectic.

Influence and Covers

Energy is widely regarded, along with Destruction by Definition by Suicide Machines, as a pivotal album of Ska-core. Many artists have covered the songs on Energy (and Hectic), including a compilation called . The Leftover Crack song Gay Rude Boys Unite also borrows heavily from the songs Unity and Yellin' In My Ear.

Track listing

Original Album

1. "Knowledge" – 1:40
2. "Sound System" – 2:14
3. "Jaded" – 1:49
4. "Take Warning" – 2:44
5. "The Crowd" – 2:10
6. "Bombshell" – 1:01
7. "Unity" – 2:13
8. "Vulnerability" – 1:58
9. "Bankshot" – 1:30
10. "One Of These Days" – 1:05
11. "Gonna Find You" – 1:52
12. "Bad Town" – 2:32
13. "Smiling" – 1:44
14. "Caution" – 1:23
15. "Freeze Up" – 2:19
16. "Artificial Life" – 2:03
17. "Room Without a Window" – 1:31
18. "Big City" – 2:14
19. "Missionary" – 2:05

"Hectic" EP (CD rerelease)
20. "Junkie's Runnin' Dry" – 2:03
21. "Here We Go Again" – 2:04
22. "Hoboken" – 1:10
23. "Yellin' in my Ear" – 1:31
24. "Sleep Long" – 2:06
25. "Healthy Body" – 1:40

"Turn It Around" compilation (CD rerelease)
26. "Officer" – 1:55
27. "I Got No" – 1:15

Personnel

• Jesse Michaels - vocals
• Lint - guitar, vocals
• Matt McCall - bass, vocals
• Dave Mello - drums, vocals
• Paul Bae - saxophone
• John Golden - remastering
• Kevin Army - engineer, producer, remastering, mixing
• Murray Bowles - photography
• Vivian Saykes - photography

1989 cover

Rancid Records release

References