Screeching Weasel - Formula 27

Original Release Date

1997

Release Information

US 7" 1997 (Vermiform - VMFM 31)
US 7" 1998 (Panic Button / Lookout! - PB271 / LK-208)

A1 (Nothing's Gonna) Turn Me Off (Of You) 1:39
A2 Pretty Girls Don't Talk To Me 3:02
B1 I Don't Care Anymore 2:42
B2 Why'd You Have To Leave 1:23

Chart Placings

None

Credits

Ben Weasel - lead guitar, vocals
Jughead - rhythm guitar
Danny Vapid - bass guitar, backing vocals
Dan Panic - drums

Produced by Mass Giorgini and Ben Weasel

Additional Credits

Recorded by Brendan Burke and Mass Giorgini at Uberstudio Chicago

Reviews & Opinions

SIBRIQUET MAGAZINE, 2008: Formula 27 is classic Screeching Weasel. In fact, as a companion to the band's stellar Bark Like A Dog LP, Formula 27 is the last release the band's "classic" Ben Weasel / Danny Vapid / Jughead / Dan Panic lineup would produce. For anyone even cursorily familiar with the midwestern punk scene during the 1990s, this was the lineup that also churned out My Brain Hurts, a cover of the Ramones' first album, Wiggle, and Anthem For A New Tomorrow between 1991 and 1993. And the four tracks on Formula 27 rank right up there with the strongest songs on those seminal albums. In other words, Formula 27 consists of fast, Ramonsy pop-punk with lyrics about romantic misadventures delivered in Ben Weasel's trademark snotty suburbs-o'-Chicago whine.

Additional Notes

Out-takes from Bark Like A Dog.

Images

US 7" 1997 (Vermiform - VMFM 31). Click here for more

US 7" 1998 (Panic Button / Lookout! - PB271 / LK-208). Click here for more