In high school, I kept ALL of my band/record label/etc. stickers in a shoe box and posters on my walls. This is my old ceiling.
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A Tribute To Alkaline Trio is out now! It features covers by Punchline, Barely Blind, The Promise Hero, and 36 other great artists. Check out the full track listing in our online store. It’s limited to just 50 copies in our store and only a few are left!
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Punchline’s cover of “Madam Me” is finally here! It’s the third track on A Tribute To Alkaline Trio and Chris Fafalios explains why they selected the song. Pre-order this great tribute album and receive a free pumpkin pie. *Disclaimer: You will only receive a copy on CD, not pie.
We chose to cover “Madam Me” for the Alkaline Trio tribute CD. “Madam Me” is the first song on the Alkaline Trio album that we were all the most familiar with, Maybe I’ll Catch Fire. Back when we first started touring, that CD often founds its way into our portable CD player that we had plugged into the cassette player in our conversion van. I liked how angry it was, because I’m pretty sure I was very angry back then. I also liked the way that the bass sounded.
One thing that I think is impressive about the song “Madam Me” is that he manages to say “piss” and “shit” in it, and despite that, it’s still a great song. I always think it’s impressive when someone can say words with such negative/kinda gross connotations and have them still sound poetic and cool. Harry Nilsson pulls this off very awesomely by slipping the word “crap” into “The Moonbeam Song”. It was also fun to put our own spin on “Madam Me”. Obviously, Alkaline Trio is a three-piece band. Since we have one more PIECE than them, we took advantage of that and added in some cool guitar work. We put lots of our own spins on this song. If Alkaline Trio hears it, I hope they don’t mind. Oh, and also, hey Alkaline Trio, we played with you guys like 13 years ago at Millvale Industrial Theater in Pittsburgh…remember that?
Chris Fafalios / Punchline
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Listen to The Promise Hero’s version of “Sorry About That” from A Tribute To Alkaline Trio and read the band’s track explanation below! Pre-order the two-disc, 39-track, album in our online store and get it by the August 30th release date.
Alkaline Trio is one of those bands that just never seem to get old…literally and figuratively. For fans, they have staked a permanent place on every iPod and it will never be unreasonable to jam out to anything from Goddamnit to From Here to Infirmary to Agony & Irony. They have somehow managed the best of both worlds, maintaining the respect of their peers and early fans while achieving a good deal of mainstream success. With that said, we were excited when offered the opportunity to cover an Alkaline Trio song for a much-needed tribute album.
We chose “Sorry About That” off of Goddamnit, mostly because we felt it would be a good fit given our limited resources at the time (an acoustic guitar and some percussion). We didn’t want to make a reproduction of the album version but rather a fresh and unique spin on the song that would showcase Matt Skiba’s songwriting as well as our own sound. We got together one evening without much discussion on what we wanted to do or how we wanted to approach it and continued to work* through the night for 12 hours straight, resulting in the finished recording that is on the album. It was fun to see the song go through so many transformations all at once before settling in to its current state, and we hope that it is just as much fun to listen to! Please take the time to check out all of the great bands on A Tribute to Alkaline Trio, not to mention the discography of the 15-year vets themselves.
*by work I mean sit around, drink coffee, talk about string theory and occasionally pick up a guitar
Jeff / The Promise Hero
The Promise Hero’s cover of “Sorry About That” by Alkaline Trio has surfaced! It appears on the upcoming album A Tribute To Alkaline Trio out August 30th on Pacific Ridge Records. Pre-order the two-disc, 39-track, CD in our online store and get it by the release date!
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Our friend Shane from Valencia/Promise Of Redemption posted his version of “Take Lots With Alcohol” from A Tribute To Alkaline Trio! Don’t forget to pre-order the album in our online store—limited to 50 copies through us!
Listen to Barely Blind’s cover of “Nose Over Tail” from A Tribute To Alkaline Trio. Pre-order the two-disc, 39-track, album in our online store now and get it by the August 30th release date!
A Tribute To Alkaline Trio is available for pre-order now! This two-disc, 39-track, compilation features versions of “Madam Me” by Punchline, “Sorry About That” by The Promise Hero, and “Nose Over Tail” by Barely Blind. It’s limited to 50 copies in our online store and will ship by August 25th. Big thanks to Pacific Ridge Records for including our bands on this album!
