The Great Burrito Extortion Case

Infobox Album | Name = The Great Burrito Extortion Case
Type = Album
Artist = Bowling for Soup


Released = November 7 2006
Recorded =
Genre = Pop-punk
Length = 64.42
Label = Jive/Zomba | Producer = Russ-T Cobb, Jaret Reddick, Butch Walker, Adam Schlesinger
Reviews =
*Absolutepunk.net (62%) [http://www.absolutepunk.net/showthread.php?t=204401 link]
Last album = "Bowling for Soup Goes to the Movies"
(2005)
This album = "The Great Burrito Extortion Case"
(2006)
Next album = eighth studio album
(2009)
Misc = Singles
Name = The Great Burrito Extortion Case
Type = studio
single 1 = High School Never Ends
single 2 = When We Die
single 3 = I'm Gay
single 1 date = 2006
single 2 date = 2007
single 3 date = 2007

"The Great Burrito Extortion Case" is Bowling for Soup's seventh studio album released on November 7 2006 through Jive Records. It is their ninth album in total. It was originally set to be titled "All My Rowdy Friends Are Still Intoxicated" or "We're Not Fat, We Just Have Small Heads". This album's first single to be released is "High School Never Ends", which is available on iTunes. It got an Honorable Mention at Ultimate-Guitar's top ten albums of 2006. The sticker found on the CD reads: "The Happiest Band Ever presents The Great Burrito Extortion Case featuring the hit singles "High School Never Ends" and "When We Die." The final song, "If You Come Back to Me/Outro" contains two things: one, the song "If You Come Back to Me," followed by two minutes of silence, soon followed by about 13 minutes of the "la la la's" from "I'm Gay" in the background, with audio of the bandmates talking.

The album's title originated from the news ticker on the bottom of a TV screen that the group saw when in a hotel bar. The headline said "Burrito Extortion Case," which intrigued the band members. [http://music.ign.com/articles/753/753022p1.html]

According to the band on their official website "there are at least 12 verses' worth of total joy for every sort-of-sad chorus about an ex-girlfriend on this record."

Track listing

Tracklist
writing_credits = yes
title1 = Epiphany
writer1 = Reddick, Maloy
length1 = 4:09
title2 = High School Never Ends
writer2 = Reddick, Schlesinger
length2 = 3:29
title3 = Val Kilmer
writer3 = Reddick, Maloy
length3 = 3:31
title4 = I'm Gay
writer4 = Reddick
length4 = 3:26
title5 = Why Don't I Miss You?
writer5 = Reddick, Jones
length5 = 3:48
title6 = A Friendly Goodbye
writer6 = Reddick
length6 = 3:27
title7 = Luckiest Loser
writer7 = Reddick, Jones
length7 = 3:47
title8 = Love Sick Stomach Ache (Sugar Coated Accident)
writer8 = Reddick, Maloy
length8 = 4:06
title9 = Much More Beautiful Person
writer9 = Reddick, Allan
length9 = 3:24
title10 = Friends Like You
writer10 = Reddick
length10 = 2:30
title11 = When We Die
writer11 = Reddick, Walker
length11 = 4:13
title12 = 99 Biker Friends
writer12 = Reddick, Maloy
length12 = 3:14
title13 = Don't Let It Be Love
writer13 = Reddick, Maloy
length13 = 3:26
title14= If You Come Back to Me / Outro
writer14 = Reddick, Maloy
length14 = 20:12

Bonus Songs

Five Bonus Songs were released alongside the CD. Three were released on music download sites iTunes, Napster, and Rhapsody. Two more were released as bonuses if you purchased the CD from different stores/websites, Hastings and Wal-Mart.

* "Not a Love Song" - iTunes Exclusive
* "No Opinion" - Rhapsody Exclusive
* "Straight to Video" - Napster Exclusive
* "Home Alone" - Hastings Exclusive
* "Good To Be Me" - Wal-Mart Exclusive
* "Everyday's A Saturday" - UK Exclusive
* "No Opinion" (Acoustic) - UK Exclusive

Credits

*Bowling for Soup:
**Jaret Reddick - vocals, guitars
**Chris Burney - guitars, vocals
**Erik Chandler - bass, vocals
**Gary Wiseman - drums

*Additional Musicians/Backing Vocals and all around swell dudes:
**Russ-T Cobb - "Make Mine a Decaf," "So ugh...you got my money"
**Casey Diiorio - "Someone drank my birthday present," "That's what happens man"
**Zac Maloy - "you guys aren't going to be seeing much of me for the rest of the week," "pretty, prrreeety good!!!"
**Butch Walker - Guitar, Keyboards, and Percussion on "When We Die"
**Adam Schlesinger - Guitar and Vocals on "High School Never Ends"
**Joey Huffman - Additional Organ, Piano and Moog
**Lesley Roy sang her BUTT off (literally) on "Much More Beautiful Person"
**The "When We Die" Orchestra: Rob Mathes (Piano), Sandra Park, Tomas K. Carney, Michael Casteel, Vivek Kamath, Shmuel Katz, Lisa E. Kim, Maria Kitsopoulos, Elizabeth Lim-Dutton, Suzanne Ornstein, Larua J. Seaton, Sarah J. Seiver, Sharon H. Yamada, Jung Sun Yoo, Rebecca H. Young
**Various gang vocals, whistling, driking, laughing, poking and prodding in Tulsa, OK: Greg Lobdell, Neal Tiemann, BRANDO, Bryan Jewett, Andy Skib, Alexis "Lyndsay" Skib, Josh Center, Davey Danger
**Chicks that sing on "Friends Like You" and made the room NOT smell like boy: Nikki Messing, Miki Smith, Kira Von Sutra, Lindsey Campbell, April Farmer

*Produced by Russ-T Cobb. and Jaret Reddick except track 11 Produced by Butch Walker and track 2 Produced by Russ-T. Cobb and Jaret Reddick, Additional Production by Adam Schlesinger
*Recorded May 15 to June 14, 2006 at Ruby Red Productions, Atlanta, GA, Pulse Recording, Silvrlake, CA and Rosewater Studios, Tusla, Ok
*Engineered and Mixed by Russ-T. Cobb
*Additional Engineering by Casey Diiorio
*Mixed at Ruby Red Productions, Atlanta, GA except '*' and '**'
*Assistant Engineers: Sean Loughlin and James Salter
*'*' Recorded and Engineered by Karl Egsieker at Pulse Recording, Silverlake, CA
*Strings Arranged and Conducted by Rob Mathes / Recorded by Mark Mandelbaum Assisted by Alex Veneguer at Legacy Recording Studios, NYC
*'**' Mixed by Tom Lord-Alge at South Beach Studios, Miami, FL
*Album Mastered by Howie Weinberg at Masterdisk, NYC
*A&R: Pablo Mathiason
*Management: Mike Swinford, Paul Nugent and Randy Miller at Rainmaker Artists
*Booking: Andy Somers for The Agency Group/Paul Bolton from Helter Skelter (UK/Europe)
*Legal: Michael L. McKoy, Esq., for Serling Rooks and Ferrara

External links

* [http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/12226048/review/12245236/the_great_burrito_extortion_case Review on Rolling Stone.]
* [http://www.absolutepunk.net/showthread.php?t=204401 Review on Absolutepunk.net.]
* [http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/columns/features/the_2006_ultimate_guitar_readers_poll_a_bit_of_the_old_a_lot_of_the_new.html Ultimate Guitar's Top Ten Albums of 2006. "The Great Burrito Extortion Case" gained an Honorable Mention.]