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Operation Ivy (CD)

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Operation Ivy Artist Snapshot:

From 1987-89, the Bay Area's Operation Ivy picked up the thread left by English bands and woke America up to the possibilities of mixing punk and ska. As the most popular band in the scene centered at the Berkeley performance space 924 Gilman St., they burned out quickly, throwing in the towel when the glare of the spotlight threatened their ideals. Guitarist Tim Armstrong and bassist Matt Freeman went on to found Rancid, and scores of ska-punk hybrids rushed to fill up the space left by Ivy's departure.

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DISC 1 for Operation Ivy (CD) Album By Operation Ivy (Artist)
1   Knowledge
2   Sound System
3   Jaded
4   Take Warning
5   Crowd, The
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   Junkies Runnin' Dry
21   Here We Go Again
22   Hoboken
23   Yellin' In My Ear
24   Sleep Long
25   Healthy Body
26   Officer
27   I Got No
 

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Review

Spin (p.117) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "[T]heir conscious, raw ska-punk inspired an entire West Coast scene."

Title Note

Operation Ivy: Tim "Lint" Armstrong (vocals, guitar); Dave Mello (vocals, drums); Jesse Michaels (vocals); Matt "McCall" Freeman (bass guitar).

Audio Remasterer: Gene Grimaldi.

Bay area ska-punks Operation Ivy can't be blamed for the legion of pale imitators that followed in their wake. During their short existence, they welded gritty street-punk to jumpy ska rhythms in a way few American bands had up to that point, picking up the torch dropped by the Clash years before. Members went on to form the immensely popular and influential Rancid and found Epitaph records subdivision Hellcat, on which this digitally re-mastered edition now appears. Composed of basically everything the group ever recorded, OPERATION IVY combines the group's only LP, ENERGY, with the 7" HECTIC and two songs from a 7" EP compilation, and makes a strong case for them as one of punk's most unique and enduring voices.

The album opens with the legendary one-two punch of KNOWLEDGE and guaranteed party-starter SOUND SYSTEM, which together tell the story of the band's sound fairly succinctly. They manage to squeeze as much color and flavor as possible out of the middle area between punk orthodoxy and rudimentary rude-boy reggae. The common thread is Matt Freeman's nimble bass lines, propelling the songs on a rusty set of tracks while Tim Armstrong strums photocopy-crude versions of Jamaican rhythms. Throughout, Op Ivy confronts social injustice, promotes unity, and keeps the flag waving for crusty, homegrown musical rebellion. Their legacy of boundless energy is long overdue for a lavish reissue.

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