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Hello Rockview is the third studio album by ska punk band Less Than Jake, released on October 6, 1998. Produced by Howard Benson, it is the band's second and final album on Capitol Records, and recorded at Mirror Image Studios in Gainesville, Florida. The album is the first to feature trombonist Pete Anna, who joined the band during its recording. The album is dedicated in memory of Niki Wood.

Hello Rockview
Studio album by
Less Than Jake
ReleasedOctober 6, 1998 (1998-10-06)
Recorded1998, Mirror Image Studios, Gainesville, Florida, U.S.
Genre
  • Ska punk
  • punk rock
  • pop punk[1]
Length37:52
LabelCapitol
Producer
  • Howard Benson
Less Than Jake chronology
Losing Streak
(1996)		 Hello Rockview
(1998)		 Borders & Boundaries
(2000)
Singles from Hello Rockview
  1. "History of a Boring Town"
    Released: 1998 (1998)
  2. "All My Best Friends Are Metalheads"
    Released: July 4, 2000 (2000-07-04)

The album yielded two singles, "History of a Boring Town" and "All My Best Friends Are Metalheads", with "History of a Boring Town" reaching #39 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks Chart.[2]


Writing and composition


The lyrics of Hello Rockview follow four years of drummer and lyricist Vinnie Fiorello's life when arranged in a non-studio order and is named after one of Vinnie's oldest friends who was imprisoned at Rockview State Correctional Institution.[3]


Artwork


The CD booklet had the unorthodox format of a comic book. It was illustrated by Steve Vance, who would later illustrate the song artwork for "The Ghosts of Me and You" on Anthem. Stylistically, it is similar to Dick Tracy. Each page is a separate song, with all dialog, thoughts, and captions being the lyrics to each song. The lyrics themselves all appear in proper order, but the order of the individual songs is different from that of the track list.


Reception


Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[4]
Ox-FanzineFavorable[5]
Wall of Sound67/100[6]

NME listed the album as one of "20 Pop Punk Albums Which Will Make You Nostalgic", saying that it is "A soundtrack to shoving your friends, listening to 'All My Best Friends Are Metalheads' and wondering how you ever liked pop punk which didn't have a trombone."[7] Cleveland.com ranked "All My Friends are Metalheads" at number 58 on their list of the top 100 pop-punk songs.[8]


Track listing


  1. "Last One Out of Liberty City" – 2:01
  2. "Help Save the Youth of America from Exploding" – 2:53
  3. "All My Best Friends Are Metalheads" – 3:31
  4. "Five State Drive" – 2:48
  5. "Nervous in the Alley" – 2:54
  6. "Motto" – 3:14
  7. "History of a Boring Town" – 3:22
  8. "Great American Sharpshooter" – 1:28
  9. "Danny Says" – 2:51
  10. "Big Crash" – 2:43
  11. "Theme Song for H Street" – 2:43
  12. "Richard Allen George... No, It's Just Cheez" – 1:46
  13. "Scott Farcas Takes It on the Chin" – 2:34
  14. "Al's War" – 3:04

(some versions of "Hello Rockview" came with a bonus disc of Less Than Jake's 1996 release "Losing Streak")


Personnel


Less Than Jake
Additional musicians
Production

Chart positions


Chart (1998) Peak
position
US Billboard 200[9] 80

References


  1. "The 50 Greatest Pop-Punk Albums of All Time — Ranked". Loudwire.
  2. AllMusic Charts: Less Than Jake singles Accessed 1 June 2008
  3. "Vinnie Talks About Hello Rockview". YouTube. 2011-06-23. Retrieved 2012-02-21.[dead YouTube link]
  4. Allmusic review
  5. Brunner, Simon (June–August 2000). "Reviews: Less Than Jake / Hello Rockview CD". Ox-Fanzine (in German). Retrieved May 26, 2019.
  6. Gulla, Bob. "Review: Hello Rockview". Wall of Sound. Archived from the original on April 15, 2001. Retrieved October 30, 2020.
  7. "20 Pop Punk Albums Which Will Make You Nostalgic". NME.com. June 9, 2014. Retrieved October 3, 2018. A soundtrack to shoving your friends, listening to 'All My Best Friends Are Metalheads' and wondering how you ever liked pop punk which didn't have a trombone.
  8. Smith, Troy L. (March 2, 2022). "The 100 greatest pop punk songs of all time". Cleveland.com. Archived from the original on March 3, 2022. Retrieved March 3, 2022.
  9. "Less Than Jake Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved October 13, 1998.

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Hello Rockview es el tercer álbum de estudio de la banda de ska punk Less Than Jake. El disco fue lanzado el 6 de octubre de 1998 mediante Capitol Records, que sería su segundo y último trabajo con la banda de Gainesville. A su vez, fue el primer disco de la banda con Pete Anna, el nuevo trombonista que se unió al grupo durante la grabación. Hello Rockview fue lanzado, posteriormente, como un doble álbum junto a Losing Streak en 2000.


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