Name: Ultimate Fakebook - Open Up and Say Awesome
Brand: Rocket Heart Records
SKU: 112306545
Price: 25.0 USD
Availability: InStock

Ultimate Fakebook - Open Up and Say Awesome

$25.00

Ultimate Fakebook - Open Up and Say Awesome

$25.00

by Ultimate Fakebook

Details

PRE-ORDER

Pre-Orders Shipping Week Of 4/21/25

Release Date 4/28/25

Ultimate Fakebook recorded their follow-up to This Will Be Laughing Week in 2001 with Ed Rose, who recorded all the band's material. It wasn't eventually released until 2002, which meant there was plenty of time to tinker. And tinker they did—scrapping the original track order, renaming the album about six times, and finally adding the song "Valentines," which was recorded in a previous session. The end result was Open Up and Say Awesome, which sported a fatter guitar/drum-fueled attack and had a richer sound than ever before.

But the track order front-loaded power and aggression, with "Wrestling Leap Year" hitting hard right out of the gate, and buried some of the newer pop-oriented songs that Bill McShane was writing. So after the reordered re-issue of This Will Be Laughing Week was such a success, the band was emboldened—and bullied into submission by archivist Kliph Scurlock, who remastered it all—to restore the original vision of Open Up and Say Awesome. The result is an entirely new listening experience—an energetic recording that leads with big hooks and big heart, and never lets up. (It may also lead to a director's cut of another recordings as well...)

Rocket Heart Records is proud to announce the restored, reordered, and remastered—forever—version of Open Up and Say Awesome on vinyl for the very first time! It includes new design elements from original cover artist Jon Sholly, an insert with photos and liner notes, and will be a limited-edition pressing of 250. Black only, cuz it looks badass.

Track List:

01. Inside Me, Inside You
02. When I'm With You I'm Ok
03. Goddamn Dance Craze
04. Forever, Forever
05. Girl...Here's Another Lie
06. Wrestling Leap Year
07. The Scheme To Listen No More
08. Combat Fatigue
09. Before You Leave
10. Red Elbows
11. Popscotch Party Rock