Beat Is On The Brat
Album by Screeching Weasel
Released	1998
Recorded	1992, 1996
Genre	punk rock, pop punk
Length	38:03
Label	Lookout! Records, Panic Button Records
Producer(s)	Mass Giorgini, Ben Weasel
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Screeching Weasel chronology
Television City Dream (1998)	Beat is on the Brat (1998)	Emo (1999)

Beat is on the Brat is a CD compilation of out of print and vinyl-only material from Screeching Weasel. The majority of the CD contains their cover of the first album by The Ramones in its entireity. The band was approached to cover the album at a party for the completion of their fourth album, Wiggle. Having just lost bassist Johnny Personality, the band was unsure of its future, and they claim that the recording of these covers helped revitalize them. The band mixed the album just like the Ramones record, with the guitar panned hard to one side and the bass to the other. Very little was changed in terms of the songs themselves, though all were slightly faster than the originals. The album was recorded in approximately fifteen hours and released on vinyl on Selfless Records in a limited run of 1700 copies, 300 of which were on white vinyl. Selfless repressed 300 copies of the album in 1993 with silkscreened covers. Further Ramones cover albums include Leave Home by The Vindictives and Rocket to Russia by The Queers (which Ben Weasel produced). The remaining tracks are from the vinyl-only EP Formula 27. These songs were outtakes from the recording of the 1996 album, Bark Like a Dog. An album is a collection of related audio tracks, released together commercially in an audio format to the public. ... Screeching Weasel was a pop punk band from Chicago, Illinois. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... A music genre is a category (or genre) of pieces of music that share a certain style or basic musical language (van der Merwe 1989, p. ... Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ... Pop punk is used for two separate subgenres of punk rock music: the kind typically found on Lookout! Records, which stray very little from the three-chord formula that The Ramones pioneered, as well as a newer subgenre of melodic, more emotional punk, which includes by bands like NOFX and... A record label is a brand created by companies that specialize in producing, manufacturing, distributing and promoting audio and sometimes video recordings (especially music videos), on various formats including compact discs, LPs, DVD-Audio, SACDs, and cassettes. ... Lookout! Records is an independent record label based in Berkeley, California. ... In the music industry, a record producer (or music producer) has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the performers, and supervising the recording, mixing and mastering processes. ... Mass Giorgini (son of renowned artist Aldo Giorgini) has played bass in some notable pop punk bands. ... Ben Weasel (born Ben Foster in Chicago, Illinois) is the lead singer of punk rock band Screeching Weasel, as well as The Riverdales. ... The All Music Guide (AMG) is a metadata database about music owned by All Media Guide. ... Image File history File links Description: Rating stars. ... Screeching Weasel was a pop punk band from Chicago, Illinois. ... Screeching Weasel was a pop punk band from Chicago, Illinois. ... The Ramones (L-R, Johnny, Tommy, Joey, Dee Dee) on the cover of their debut self-titled album (1976), cementing their place at the dawn of the punk movement. ... The Vindictives were one of the many groups to perform poppy punk rock in the underground throughout the 1990s. ... The Queers are a punk rock band from New Hampshire, formed in 1982. ...

Track Listing

1. Blitzkrieg Bop 2:12
2. Beat On The Brat 2:30
3. Judy Is A Punk 1:30
4. I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend 2:24
5. Chainsaw 1:55
6. Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue 1:34
7. I Don't Wanna Go Down To The Basement 2:35
8. Loudmouth 2:14
9. Havana Affair 2:00
10. Listen To My Heart 1:56
11. 53rd & 3rd 2:19
12. Let's Dance 1:51
13. I Don't Wanna Walk Around With You 1:43
14. Today Your Love, Tomorrow The World 2:09
15. (Nothing's Gonna) Turn Me Off (Of You) 1:39
16. Pretty Girls Don't Talk To Me 3:02
17. I Don't Care Anymore 2:42
18. Why'd You Have To Leave 1:23

Tracks 1-11, 13-14 by The Ramones. Track 12 by Jim Lee. Tracks 15-18 by Ben Weasel. The Ramones (L-R, Johnny, Tommy, Joey, Dee Dee) on the cover of their debut self-titled album (1976), cementing their place at the dawn of the punk movement. ...

Personnel

Ben Weasel - lead vocals, lead guitar on tracks 15-18
Jughead - guitar
Danny Vapid - bass, backing vocals on tracks 15-18
Dan Panic - drums
Ben Weasel (born Ben Foster in Chicago, Illinois) is the lead singer of punk rock band Screeching Weasel, as well as The Riverdales. ... John Pierson, commonly known by the nom-de-rock John Jughead or simply Jughead, founded the legendary pop-punk band Screeching Weasel in Chicago, Illinois with friend Ben Weasel in 1986. ...