Rise or Die Trying

Rise or Die Trying
Studio album by Four Year Strong
Released	September 18, 2007
Recorded	2007 at Big Sky Audio, Springfield, PA; Philly Sound Studios, Philadelphia, PA;
Label	I Surrender
Producer	Matt Robnett, Nik Tyler
Four Year Strong chronology
It's Our Time (2005) Rise or Die Trying (2007) Explains It All (2009)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AbsolutePunk	85% [1]
Allmusic	[2]
MammothPress.com	[3]
Punknews.org	[4]

Rise or Die Trying is the second full-length album from American rock band Four Year Strong. It chart at number 31 on the Billboard Heatseekers album charts in 2007. The album was recorded and produced by Matt Robnett of Playwork Productions at Big Sky Audio in Springfield, Pennsylvania. The name "Rise or Die Trying" comes from a lyric to "Go Long Dad", a song from their first album, It's Our Time. The album has sold over 50,000 copies.

Song Titles

• "Abandon Ship or Abandon All Hope" is a line from Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest.
• "Heroes Get Remembered, Legends Never Die" is a line from The Sandlot.
• "Wrecked 'Em? Damn Near Killed 'Em" is the punchline to a joke "Rectum? Damn Near Killed 'Em."
• "If He's Here, Who's Runnin' Hell?" is a line from National Lampoon's Van Wilder.

Track listing

All songs written by Dan O'Connor and Alan Day.

No.	Title	Length
1.	"The Take Over"	1:34
2.	"Prepare to Be Digitally Manipulated"	3:07
3.	"Abandon Ship or Abandon All Hope"	3:33
4.	"Heroes Get Remembered, Legends Never Die"	3:36
5.	"Wrecked 'Em? Damn Near Killed 'Em"	3:12
6.	"Catastrophe"	2:37
7.	"Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Hell"	3:06
8.	"Bada Bing! Wit' a Pipe!"	3:22
9.	"Beatdown in the Key of Happy"	3:03
10.	"If He's Here, Who's Runnin' Hell?"	3:18
11.	"Maniac (R.O.D.)"	3:08
Total length:		32:16

Bonus tracks

Australian & Japanese bonus track
No.	Title	Length
12.	"So Hot and You Sweat on It"	3:22

UK bonus tracks
No.	Title	Length
13.	"Beep Beep"	4:05
14.	"Gotta Get Out"	3:02

Personnel

• Alan Day – vocals, guitar
• Dan O'Connor – vocals, guitar
• Jackson Massucco – drums
• Joe Weiss – bass guitar, backing vocals
• Josh Lyford – synth

Additional personnel

• Matt Robnet – backing vocals
• Brooks Plummer – backing vocals
• Nich Hanterelis – backing vocals
• Jayce Mosher – backing vocals

References

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4. Punknews.org review

External links

• Rise or Die Trying at YouTube (streamed copy where licensed)