If Life Were a Result, We'd All Be Dead

If Life Were a Result, We'd All Be Dead
Studio album by d.b.s.
Released	February 2000[1]
Recorded	1997[2]
Genre	Punk rock Post-hardcore
Length	28:12
Label	Crap Records
d.b.s. chronology
Some Boys Got It, Most Men Don't (1999) If Life Were a Result, We'd All Be Dead (2000) Forget Everything You Know (EP) (2001)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Discorder	(ambivalent)[3]
Exclaim!	(ambivalent)[4]

If Life Were a Result, We'd All Be Dead is the fifth and final full-length album released by the North Vancouver punk band d.b.s. It was released by Crap Records in February 2000. Although their final full-length, the songs on this album were actually recorded in 1997, before their previous album.^[2] The songs were intended to be released on various singles, but this plan never came to fruition.^[2]

The band's music on this album has been likened to Lifetime and Jawbreaker, marking an "awkward transition" from the political lyrics of I Is for Insignificant to the more personal lyrics of Some Boys Got It, Most Men Don't.^[5]

Track listing

1. "Will You Accept the Charges?" – 3:21
2. "Galleon's Lap" – 2:51
3. "The Ethics of Camping" – 2:42
4. "Tsawwassen" – 2:25
5. "Scavenger Hunt" – 3:49
6. "Immovable Stones" – 2:26
7. "The Night She Left" – 3:53
8. "Mayday" – 3:09
9. "Dogma Schmogma" – 3:41

Personnel

• Andy Dixon – guitar, backing vocals
• Jesse Gander – vocals
• Paul Patko – drums, backing vocals
• Dhani Borges – bass guitar

References

1. d.b.s. news—January 1998 to June 2001
2. Rob Ferraz (September 2000). "Pop Rocks: If Life Were A Result We'd All Be Dead". Exclaim!. Toronto. Retrieved 20 January 2009. This contains unreleased tracks recorded in 1997, before the Some Boys Got It Most Men Don't LP. The songs were meant to appear on various singles that, in true punk style, never got released.
3. Discorder review
4. Exclaim! review
5. Godfrey J. Leung (August 2000). "Discorder August 2000 Reviews". Discorder. Vancouver. Retrieved 20 January 2009.