Slick Shoes – Wake Up Screaming

Description

Wake Up Screaming is the third full-length album by the American pop-punk band Slick Shoes, released on Tooth & Nail Records in 2000. The album was produced, recorded, and mixed by Bill Stevenson, Stephen Egerton, and Jason Livermore at the Blasting Room in Fort Collins, Colorado. All music by the band with lyrics written by vocalist Ryan Kepke (except track 11 featuring lyrics by Joe Nixon).

Slick Shoes features Ryan Kepke on vocals; Greg Togawa on guitar; Jeremiah Brown on bass; and Joe Nixon on drums.

This is Blink 182 for Christians. ‘Wake Up Screaming’ the follow-up to 1998s ‘Burn Out’, is hardcore for thinking people, with lyrics that are full of the kind of feelings and sentiments about our relationship with Jesus that each one of us experience every day. Tooth & Nail’s press release describes this as “songs recorded during a happier period” in the band’s career. The 14 tracks on this album question our lack of Christian commitment («Have I Said Too Much?»); challenge our apathy («This Is Your Life»); point us to a loving faithful Father («Constancy») and remind us of the blessings that we have in Jesus («Lucky») – all to a musical backdrop that is more Dr Feelgood than thrash, and all in a very positive way. This isn’t doom and gloom to an apocalyptic sonic assault, it is well written, well played and well worth buying. This band rocks – with depth, perhaps that’s the way God is going to wake us up! [Philip Price, Cross Rhythms, October 2000]

> Apple Music (https://music.apple.com/us/album/wake-up-screaming/723467361)

CD tracklist:

01. Another Day
02. Constancy
03. Angel
04. Peace Of Mind
05. Hide & Seek
06. Lucky
07. Have I Said Too Much?
08. Elisa
09. Don’t Mess With Texas
10. Good Intentions
11. This Is Your Life
12. There’s A Reason
13. I Guess
14. Not That Far
15. untitled (hidden track)

Note: Track 15, a hidden track at the end of the album, is an instrumental cover of AC/DC’s “Rock And Roll Ain’t Noise Pollution”. Re-issued as a Limited Edition 12-inch vinyl LP by Tooth & Nail Records in 2020, pressed on Clear with Orange Smoke vinyl.