Full Circle (Pennywise album)

Infobox Album | Name = Full Circle
Type = Album
Artist = Pennywise


Released = April 22, 1997
Recorded = 1996 at Total Access Studios in Redondo Beach, California
Genre = Punk
Length = 60:36
Label = Epitaph
Producer = Pennywise,
Eddie Ashworth
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:ttz8b5f4nsqk~T1 link]
*"Rolling Stone" Rating|3|5 [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/pennywise/albums/album/234706/review/5945506/full_circle link]
Last album = "Home Movies"
(1995)
This album = "Full Circle"
(1997)
Next album = "Straight Ahead"
(1999) |

"Full Circle" is the fourth full-length album by the punk band Pennywise. It was released on April 22, 1997 (see 1997 in music) and was digitally remastered on March 8, 2005 on the original label. This is the first Pennywise studio album to feature current bassist Randy Bradbury, since it is the first after the suicide of the original bassist Jason Thirsk. The entire album was dedicated to the memory of Thirsk, who had been a key song writer for Pennywise until his death, and a close friend of all of those in the band.

Writing and production

There had been a delay between 1995's "About Time" and the recording of this album, which occurred in the fall of 1996. During the "About Time" tour, founding member Jason Thirsk took a hitaus from Pennywise to try to control his then-growing alcoholism. One Hit Wonder bassist Randy Bradbury, who had contributed on the band's 1993 album "Unknown Road", stepped in. When Thirsk returned briefly returned on bass in 1996, Bradbury was supposed to switch to rhythm guitar; unfourtnately, Thirsk died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound on July 29th of that year at the age of 28. His death nearly delayed the prodcution of the fourth Pennywise album.

Pennywise was shaken by Thirsk's death; however, they decided to continue performing, thus adding Bradbury as Thirsk's permanent replacement. The band finally returned to the studio in the fall of 1996 to begin recording the follow-up to "About Time".

Track listing

# "Fight Till You Die" – 2:22
# "Date With Destiny" – 2:55
# "Get A Life" – 2:56
# "Society" – 3:24
# "Final Day" – 3:11
# "Broken" – 2:46
# "Running Out Of Time" – 2:21
# "You'll Never Make It" – 2:35
# "Every Time" – 3:37
# "Nowhere Fast" – 2:56
# "What If I" – 2:55
# "Go Away" – 1:51
# "Did You Really?" – 2:51
# "Bro Hymn Tribute" 5:30
* After a period of silence, a hidden track with a piano solo is played. The solo is an extension of the original piano composition that marks the beginning of the hugely successful Pennywise "Unknown Road" album (1993). Track 14, including the period of silence and the hidden track, totals 23:56.

All songs by Pennywise.

Personnel

*Eddie Ashworth - Producer, Engineer, Mixing
*Milton Chan - Mixing
*Fletcher Dragge - Guitar
*Jesse Fischer - Artwork
*Brett Gurewitz - Mixing
*Jim Lindberg - Vocals
*Byron McMackin - Drums
*Pennywise - Producer, Engineer, Artwork, Mixing
*Darian Rundall - Assistant Engineer, Mixing
*Eddy Schreyer - Mastering
*Jason Thirsk - Vocals (background)
*Ronnie King - Piano "Unknown Road"

Charts

Album - Billboard (North America) and the ARIA Charts (Australia).