RELEASE WILL INCLUDE 22 NEWLY RE-RECORDED HITS & FAN FAVORITES PLUS A SPECIAL 14-TRACK BONUS ACOUSTIC DISC

BAND A MAINSTAGE FAVE AT THIS SUMMER’S VAN WARPED TOUR

June 23, 2010—Perennial ska/punk jesters REEL BIG FISH, a headliner on this summer’s Van Warped Tour (July 13-August 15) and Rock Ridge Music, will be releasing A Best Of Us For The Rest Us – a 22-track compilation of newly re-recorded renditions of hits and fan favorites (in addition to a special bonus 14-track acoustic disc), exclusively through Best Buy on July 20. A European release date will be announced soon.

Formed in the suburbs of Orange County , CA in the early ‘90s, REEL BIG FISH has gone on to release half a dozen full-length studio releases, headline countless tours in North America (as well as Europe, Asia and Latin America ) and amass combined sales of well over a million albums all while keeping their sly wit and wicked sense of humor intact.

A Best of Us for the Rest of Us track listing:
1. Sell Out 3:53
2. Take on Me 3:18
3. Beer 3:51
4. She Has a Girlfriend Now 3:07
5. Everything Sucks 2:53
6. Trendy 2:38
7. I Want Your Girlfriend to be My Girlfriend Too 2:48
8. In the Pit 2:43
9. The Set Up (you need this) 4:19
10. Somebody Hates Me 3:24
11. You Don’t Know 3:15
12. Suckers (this one’s for you) 3:39
13. Where Have You Been 4:00
14. Good Thing 3:24
15. Ban the Tube Top 3:03
16. Don’t Start a Band 3:18
17. Your Guts (I hate ‘em) 2:01
18. Another F.U. Song 1:03
19. New Version of You (new version) 3:20
20. Party Down 4:07
21. Slow Down (single version) 4:20
22. Brown Eyed Girl 3:02

Bonus Skacoustic disc:
1. Sell Out (skacoustic) 3:56
2. Take on Me (skacoustic) 3:14
3. Beer (skacoustic) 3:51
4. She Has a Girlfriend Now (skacoustic) 3:04
5. Another F.U. Song (skacoustic) 1:03
6. Your Guts (i hate ‘em) (skacoustic) 1:55
7. Suckers (skacoustic) 3:39
8. Where have you been (skacoustic) 4:01
9. Don’t Start a Band (skacoustic) 3:17
10. S.R. (skacoustic) 1:37
11. 241 (skacoustic) 2:41
12. the Kids Don’t Like it (skacoustic) 3:24
13. Scott’s a Dork (skacoustic) 3:04
14. Nothin’ (skacoustic) 2:06

For more info on REEL BIG FISH see www.myspace.com/reelbigfish.

LIVE IN CONCERT by REEL BIG FISH (Rock Ridge Music)

In an interview with Reel Big Fish I did before The Vans Warped Tour, I had mentioned to them about that the punk ska band New Found Glory having a cover record out. I had mentioned that Reel Big Fish should also put one out as well. We low and behold they did just do that!   It was called Fame Fortune And Fornication with covers done in the classic Reel Big Fish style.

With after putting out this CD now, out comes a live show tour DVD of the tour for The Fame Fortune And Fornication Tour. The DVD was recorded in the bands hometown of Anaheim, California.  Included with some of the bands best covers from The Fame Fortune And Fornication CD and songs from their past records. Some of the highlights of the 20 songs on here are Beer, She Has A Girlfriend Now, I Want Your Girlfriend, Another F U Song and of course the crowd singing along of the Ah Ha cover Take On Me.

This show was recorded on January 4^th 2009 in at a sold out show of 2500 people. This video shows you why Orange County California Reel Big Fish have been entertaining the punk and ska music scene for the past 15 years. I am sure after you see this concert live DVD you will have to find your own way of catching a live show with the band in your home state area venue.

At press time it was announced that Reel Big Fish will be on the entire 2010 Vans Warped Tour!  Go check them out!!!

(Review and band photo by Jonathan D. Wright)

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