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Operation Ivy (Artist) | Format: Audio CD
4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (239 customer reviews)

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Product Details
1. Knowledge
2. Sound System
3. Jaded
4. Take Warning
5. The Crowd
6. Bombshell
7. Unity
8. Vulnerability
9. Bankshot
10. One of These Days
11. Gonna Find You
12. Bad Town
13. Smiling
14. Caution
15. Freeze Up
16. Artificial Life
17. Room Without a Window
18. Big City
19. Missionary
20. Junkie's Runnin' Dry
See all 27 tracks on this disc

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Album Description

Operation Ivy "Energy" was the full length album follow up to the "Hectic" EP and features nineteen songs now available again on vinyl for the first time in years. Operation Ivy was a legendary Berkeley, California based 4-piece punk/ska band fronted by future Rancid cohorts Tim Armstrong and Matt Freeman who helped create the Gilman street punk scene that also spawned Green Day and AFI.

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Most helpful customer reviews
Real music, not overproduced crap July 18 2004
By A Customer
Format:Audio CD
This is a great album from one of the greatest and most influential bands of all time. It is bursting with energy and is filled with catchy riffs and politically charged lyrics. This album is real music. You can tell the band had a true passion for the music they played. It is not overproduced, but instead has energy and life that is rarely found in today's lifeless music. This cd is one of the best cds you could ever buy. Every song on the cd is good and you can listen through several times through without ever getting tired of it. Buy this cd now.
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3/4 Punk. 1/4 Ska. 100% GREAT. July 1 2004
Format:Audio CD
Operation Ivy takes a lot of heat for spawning Rancid (a pale imitation of The Clash) and a huge crapfest of awful bands who played pop-punk with horns. However, the "ska" label was somewhat overstated for this band, especially since only one or two songs on Energy actually feature horns (Bad Town is the only one I can recall). And these guys were miles ahead of their imitators in every conceivable way.

What Op Ivy really did back in 1988-89 was combine punk, ska, and reggae (with a little hardcore edge thrown in), and record the whole mess nice and lo-fi--original and totally excellent stuff. Blink-182 and Sum41 fans will cringe at the DIY-level sound quality and Jesse Michaels' untrained voice, but I wouldn't trade Energy for any of their Pro Tools-smothered junk. THIS is punk. Overproduction need not apply.

With 27 tracks, each averaging about 2 minutes, Energy has the punk energy down pat. Tim Armstrong ("Lint") lays down great speedy hyper-ska guitar lines all over the place, and Matt McCall is probably one of the few punk bassists who isn't totally incompetent (am I hearing some slap bass?). The album is chock full of melodies, catchy choruses, surprisingly sophisticated lyrics (especially considering that these guys were merely teenagers at the time), and plenty of groove. At least half of these songs are worthy of becoming standards--the opener Knowledge (Green Day covered it early on, but the original is superior), Sound System, Take Warning (my favorite), The Crowd, Bad Town, Freeze Up..I could go on and on.

Forget the "ska-punk" label--ultimately this is excellent non-hyphenated punk rock, and it should be in your collection.

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awesome punk album Jun 29 2004
Format:Audio CD
It's somewhat misleading to call this "ska", as only one song features horns... This is some excellent punk rock with reggae influences. It you're a fan of the Clash or Rancid (which this band eventually became) this is worth checking out.
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Most recent customer reviews
It's beautiful, I would say, I wouldnt have it any other way
After listening to Rancid, I decided that Lint (AKA Tim Armstrong) has no talent as a song writer whatsoever. Then I discovered Operation Ivy and found out just how wrong I was. Read more
Published on Jun 27 2004 by DisturbedMonkey
classic ska/punk stuff
Wow, how can I be the first to review Operation Ivy?! Amazon customers are letting the ball drop.

Some website I visited once described Op Ivy well: "Imagine if the Specials... Read more

Published on Jun 24 2004 by Matt Greer
whoa
i can believe im the first 2 review this album.. its absolutely amazing ne1 who likes punk rock/ ska/ dc for the right reasons would love this band its fast catchy crazy and... Read more
Published on Jun 23 2004 by nate
Untouchable
This is an amazing album that defies all the boring punk releases that were put out in the late 80's/early 90's. Read more
Published on Jun 13 2004 by M. C Wright
An Essential Album
This is an essential album for anyone even thinking of listening to punk or ska.
It should be required listening. Read more
Published on Jun 11 2004 by J. McQueen
amazing
this album has some of the best lyrics in the history of punk. this is one of those records that comes along once a decade. Read more
Published on Jun 9 2004
Leaves me very satisfied
This cd is a good buy for a punk fan of any kind. It reminds me of Sum41 and Rancid. The songs I like most are Soundsystem, Caution, Bad Town, Jaded, and Bombshell. Read more
Published on Jun 7 2004 by Steph99
opivy?
This CD is pretty good. I'm not a ska fan really, but that proves that this band can appeal to punk fans. Most of the songs on this CD are wonderful. Read more
Published on May 2 2004 by Maxwell Lawson
Changed everything
When people see this album at stores they imagine four, random teenages / early twenties kids picking up instruments and jamming. This is true. Read more
Published on April 17 2004 by Andrew Scheier
good but all the songs sound the same
they sound really good , but there really isnt that much variety to their songs they all sound pretty much the same
Published on April 7 2004
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