Borders & Boundaries

Borders & Boundaries
Studio album by Less Than Jake
Released	October 24, 2000
Recorded	Grand Master Studios in Hollywood
Genre	Ska punk
Length	40:58
Label	Fat Wreck Chords
Producer	Steve Kravac
Less Than Jake chronology
The Pez Collection (1999) Borders & Boundaries (2000) Goodbye Blue & White (2002)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Punknews.org	[2]

Borders & Boundaries is the fourth studio album by ska punk band Less Than Jake. It was released October 24, 2000 on Fat Wreck Chords. The album was recorded at Grand Master Studios in Hollywood, CA, with producer Steve Kravac, and is the final studio album to feature saxophonist Derron Nuhfer and trombonist Pete Anna.

Overview

The cover art features a map of the area around their home city of Gainesville, Florida, while the booklet "cover" art features a photograph of trombonist Pete Anna saluting the Statue of Liberty. Included on some copies is a spinning wheel which tells you the distance between Gainesville and eight places around the world; Sydney, Los Angeles, Chicago, Seattle, Tokyo, London, Paramus, NJ, and Ljubljana, Slovenia.

After recording had concluded, the album was originally slated to be released on Capitol Records, the label the band released their prior album - Hello Rockview - on. The band's drummer, Vinnie Fiorello, wrote about the matter on the linear-notes for Fat Wreck's 2009 greatest hits album, Wrecktrospective:^[3]

"We recorded a full length for [Capitol Records] while the whole company got replaced, fired, or re-arranged, and in the process the new president there gave us the option of staying or going and taking the record with us. [...] When we found out [...] about the possibility of our departure, there was only one label we wanted to go to and that was Fat. It was obvious to all of us that they were the perfect label for our band at that precise time."

The album's lone video single, "Gainesville Rock City," received airtime on MTV2, and has gone on to become one of the band's signature songs. "Look What Happened" received minor airplay on college radio stations.

"Look What Happened" also appears on the band's next album, Anthem, in a re-recorded state.

The album reached #103 in the Billboard charts.^[4]

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Magnetic North"	2:59
2.	"Kehoe"	3:01
3.	"Suburban Myth"	2:25
4.	"Look What Happened"	3:34
5.	"Hell Looks a Lot Like L.A."	2:13
6.	"Mr. Chevy Celebrity"	1:42
7.	"Gainesville Rock City"	3:07
8.	"Malt Liquor Tastes Better When You've Got Problems"	2:24
9.	"Bad Scene and a Basement Show"	2:38
10.	"Is This Thing On?"	3:06
11.	"Pete Jackson Is Getting Married"	1:54
12.	"1989"	2:27
13.	"Last Hour of the Last Day of Work"	3:17
14.	"Bigger Picture"	2:41
15.	"Faction"	3:30

2002 UK Re-release
No.	Title	Length
16.	"Help Save The Youth Of America From Exploding" (Live)	3:22
17.	"Rock-n-Roll Pizzeria" (Live)	3:22
18.	"Down In the Mission" (Live)	2:17
19.	"Anchor / Sugar In Your Gas Tank" (Live)	2:51
20.	"Just Like Frank" (Live)	2:15
21.	"9th At Pine" (Live)	2:24
22.	"How's My Driving, Doug Hastings?" (Live)	1:26

2012 Reissue
No.	Title	Length
16.	"Suburban Myth" (Demo)	2:22
17.	"Magnetic North" (Demo)	3:01
18.	"Hell Looks A Lot Like L.A." (Demo)	1:31

Personnel

• Chris Demakes - guitar, vocals
• Roger Manganelli - bass guitar, vocals
• Vinnie Fiorello - drums, lyrics
• Buddy Schaub - tenor trombone
• Pete Anna - alto trombone
• Derron Nuhfer - additional baritone saxophone

References

1. AllMusic review
2. Punknews.org review
3. Fiorello, Vinnie (2009). Wrecktrospective (Media notes). Less Than Jake; Various Artists. San Francisco, California: Fat Wreck Chords. FAT700.
4. AllMusic Charts: Borders & Boundaries Accessed 19 October 2007

External links

• Borders & Boundaries at YouTube (streamed copy where licensed)