Formula 27
EP by Screeching Weasel
Released	1997
Recorded	1996
Genre	punk rock, pop punk
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Label	Lookout! Records, Panic Button Records
Producer(s)	Mass Giorgini, Ben Weasel
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Screeching Weasel chronology
Suzanne Is Getting Married (1994)	Formula 27 (1997)	Major Label debut (1998)

Formula 27 is a 4-song 7" EP was released as a companion to Screeching Weasel's first album after their second breakup, Bark Like A Dog. All 4 were recorded during the sessions for the album with the same lineup. This EP would be the last new material that the "classic" Screeching Weasel lineup of Weasel/Jughead/Vapid/Panic would release. All the songs deal with issues involving personal relationships, and all but the first relate to relationship problems. The EP was released shortly after Bark Like A Dog on both Lookout! Records and Weasel's own imprint, Panic Button. It is now out of print, but the songs are available as bonus tracks on the album Beat is on the Brat. An example of EP, Mint Car from The Cure released in 1996. ... Screeching Weasel was a pop punk band from Chicago, Illinois. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII in Roman) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 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. ... Screeching Weasel was a pop punk band from Chicago, Illinois. ... Screeching Weasel was a pop punk band from Chicago, Illinois. ... Beat is on the Brat is a CD compilation of out of print and vinyl-only material from Screeching Weasel. ...

Track listing

1. "(Nothing's Gonna) Turn Me Off (Of You)" 1:39
2. "Pretty Girls Don't Talk To Me" 3:02
3. "I Don't Care Anymore" 2:42
4. "Why'd You Have to Leave?" 1:23

All songs written by Ben Weasel

Personnel

Ben Weasel - lead guitar/vocals
Jughead - rhythm guitar
Danny Vapid - bass guitar/backing vocals
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. ...