Pay Attention

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Pay Attention
Pay Attention cover
Studio album by The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Released May 2, 2000
Recorded 1999-2000
Genre Ska-Core
Length 51:08
Label Island Def Jam Records
Producer Paul Q. Kolderie, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Professional reviews
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones chronology
Live from the Middle East
(1998)		 Pay Attention
(2000)		 A Jackknife to a Swan
(2002)

Pay Attention is an album by The Mighty Mighty Bosstones. It was released on May 2, 2000 by Island Def Jam Records.

It reached #74 on the Billboard 200.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Let Me Be" - 3:52
  2. "The Skeleton Song" - 3:01
  3. "All Things Considered" - 4:01
  4. "So Sad to Say" - 3:10
  5. "Allow Them" - 3:57
  6. "High School Dance" - 2:52
  7. "Over the Eggshells" - 2:59
  8. "She Just Happened" - 2:53
  9. "Finally" - 3:47
  10. "I Know More" - 3:08
  11. "Riot on Broad Street" - 3:13
  12. "One Million Reasons" - 3:01
  13. "Bad News and Bad Breaks" - 3:33
  14. "Temporary Trip" - 2:27
  15. "Where You Come From" - 2:46
  16. "The Day He Didn't Die" - 3:24

[edit] Big Rig 12" Double Vinyl bonus tracks

  1. "Meaning" - 2:33
  2. "The Skeleton Song (Demo)" - 3:10
  3. "Simmer Down (Live)" - 2:29
  4. "New England Memories" - 2:28

[edit] Australia CD bonus tracks

  1. "Together" - 3:05
  2. "Just As Much" - 3:01

[edit] Personnel

  • Paul Q. Kolderie - producer, engineer
  • Johnny Goetchius - keyboards
  • Rolf Langsjoen - trumpet
  • John Allen - vocals on track 11
  • Paul Scarpino - acoustic guitar on track 11
  • Ernie Wilson - bass guitar on track 11
  • Bob Richards - drums on track 11
  • Nat Freedberg - backing vocals on track 9
  • Mark Higgins - musician
  • Billy O'Malley - musician
  • Andrew Schneider - engineer
  • Sean Slade - engineer
  • Fran Flannery - assistant engineer
  • Ted Paduck - assistant engineer
  • Andy Wallace - mixing
  • Howie Weinberg - mastering
  • Steve Sisco - assistant
  • Joseph Cultice - photography
  • Bill Horsman - photography

[edit] Notes/Trivia

  • This was the last album recorded with guitarist Nate Albert, trombonist Dennis Brockenborough, and the first with Roman Fleysher on saxophone. It was also the band's last on a major label.
  • "So Sad To Say", the first single off this album, made its debut at Fenway Park on the big screen on Opening Day, 2000.
v • d • e
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Dicky Barrett · Tim "Johnny Vegas" Burton · Ben Carr · Joe Gittleman · Lawrence Katz · Joe Sirois · Chris Rhodes · Kevin Lenear
Nate Albert · Dennis Brockenborough · Josh Dalsimer · Roman Fleysher · Tim Bridewell
Discography
Studio albums
Devil's Night Out (1989) · More Noise and Other Disturbances (1992) · Don't Know How to Party (1993) · Question the Answers (1994) · Let's Face It (1997) · Pay Attention (2000) · A Jackknife to a Swan (2002)
EPs and other releases
Singles
"Someday I Suppose" · "Don't Know How to Party" · "A Man Without" · "Almost Anything Goes"  · "Last Dead Mouse" · "Detroit Rock City" · "Kinder Words" · "Pictures to Prove It" · "Hell of a Hat" · "The Impression That I Get"  · "The Rascal King" · "Royal Oil" · "Wrong Thing Right Then" · "Every Trick in the Book" · "So Sad to Say" · "She Just Happened" · "Fabled Barney and the Population" · "You Gotta Go!"
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