Name: Goldfinger [PA]
Brand: Universal Distribution
SKU: 502242
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Goldfinger [Parental Advisory]

Rating

Album: Goldfinger
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Mind's Eye
2)	Stay
3)	Here in Your Bedroom
4)	Only a Day
5)	King for a Day
6)	Anxiety
7)	Answers
8)	Anything
9)	Mabel
10)	City With Two Faces, The
11)	My Girlfriend's Shower Sucks
12)	Miles Away
13)	Nothing to Prove
14)	Pictures
15)	[Untitled Track]
16)	Fuck You and Your Cat

Performer Notes

Goldfinger: John Feldmann (vocals, guitar); Simon Williams (vocals, bass); Dangerous Darrin Pfeiffer (vocals, drums); Charlie Paulson (background vocals).
Additional personnel: Bruce Fowler (trombone); Dan Regan, Scott Klopfenstein, Efren Santana (horns); Paul Hampton (piano, Hammond); Patrick, Whit, Roy Michael (background vocals).
Personnel: John Feldmann (vocals, guitar, background vocals); Simon Williams (vocals, bass guitar, background vocals); Charlie Paulson (guitar, Fender Rhodes piano, bells, background vocals); Bruce Fowler (trombone); Dan Regan, Efren Santana, Scott Klopfenstein (horns); Paul Hampton (piano); Roy ? (background vocals).
The year 1996 was a breakthrough year for a new sound: the fusion of ska and punk. The Suicide Machines debuted, Less Than Jake made their major-label debut, but no one had more success with this new sound than Goldfinger on their self-titled debut. That could be because the band went even farther with their genre-bending, throwing metal and a touch of reggae into the mix. Or it could be because songs like the hit "Here in Your Bedroom" and "Mabel" are irresistibly catchy, creative, and, with such self-effacing lyrics as the maybe-size-does-matter line in "Mabel," hopelessly endearing. The album is an emotional roller coaster, from the self-affirming "Bedroom" ("You have changed/Cuz I still feel the same") to the confusion of "Mind's Eye" ("Every time that I see you/I act like a different man") to the oh-well-I-give-up humor of "My Girlfriend's Shower Sucks" ("It's like the shower's going pee"). And there's plenty of anger and aggression left over for songs like "Answers." The album went gold in 1998. ~ Ron DePasquale