''Hand Over Your Loved Ones'' (re-released as ''Suck Fony'') is the second studio album released by American rock band Wheatus.

Background

''Hand Over Your Loved Ones'', according to frontman

Brendan B. Brown Wheatus are an American rock band from Northport, New York, formed in 1995. They are known principally for their 2000 single "Teenage Dirtbag", which appeared in the films '' Loser'' and '' Bully'', as well as the HBO miniseries ''Generation ...

, is "a really glossy pop record that had a lot of radio friendly singles on it."

Release

The album was released on 8 September 2003 by

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. Due to conflicts between the band and their record label, the album was poorly promoted, failed to sell well and only one single, "American In Amsterdam", was released from it. Free from their contract with Sony, Wheatus released five songs from the album on

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as '' The Lemonade EP'' in 2004. The album was re-released on 14 February 2005 under the name ''Suck Fony'', on the band's own record label Montauk Mantis Productions, after they decided to leave

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. The re-released version includes two new tracks, including the original composition "William McGovern", and the Pat Benatar cover "

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". The album is currently available directly from the band's official website for $10, and is available to download in various formats using a ' pay what you want' donation system where the customer can donate any amount to purchase the album. The album's title is a spoonerism of the phrase "Fuck Sony". A T-shirt was available for a period of time from the band's website with the album logo on the front.Official ''Suck Fony'' microsite

Track listing

''Hand Over Your Loved Ones''

# "American in Amsterdam" – 3:58 # "The Song That I Wrote When You Dissed Me" – 4:04 # "Anyway" – 4:09 # "Freak On" – 4:44 # "Lemonade" – 3:22 # "The Deck" – 2:38 # "Fair Weather Friend" – 3:25 # "Randall" – 4:18 # "Whole Amoeba" – 3:07 # "Dynomite Satchel of Pain" – 14:57

''Suck Fony''

# "The Deck" – 2:37 # "Lemonade" – 3:23 # "

" – 3:22 # "Anyway" – 4:08 # "Freak On" – 4:44 # "William McGovern" – 3:48 # "American in Amsterdam" – 3:57 # "Fair Weather Friend" – 3:25 # "Randall" – 4:18 # "Whole Amoeba" – 3:08 # "The Song That I Wrote When You Dissed Me" – 4:02 # "Dynomite Satchel of Pain" – 4:17 * Hidden tracks : 13. "The Song That I Wrote When You Dissed Me" (Demo #1) – 3:21 : 14. "The Song That I Wrote When You Dissed Me" (Demo #2) – 3:45

Personnel

Band *

– lead vocals, guitar, samples, tambourines, shakers * Peter Brown – drums, backing vocals, turntables * Mike McCabe – bass guitar, backing vocals * Shannon Harris –

Rhodes piano The Rhodes piano (also known as the Fender Rhodes piano) is an electric piano invented by Harold Rhodes, which became popular in the 1970s. Like a conventional piano, the Rhodes generates sound with keys and hammers, but instead of strings, t ...

clavinet The Clavinet is an electrically amplified clavichord invented by Ernst Zacharias and manufactured by the Hohner company of Trossingen, West Germany, from 1964 to 1982. The instrument produces sounds by a rubber pad striking a point on a tension ...

, piano,

Hammond organ The Hammond organ is an electric organ invented by Laurens Hammond and John M. Hanert and first manufactured in 1935. Multiple models have been produced, most of which use sliding drawbars to vary sounds. Until 1975, Hammond organs generated s ...

, tambourines Other * Liz Brown – backing vocals * Kathryn Froggatt – backing vocals * Philip A. Jimenez – banjo, turntables * David Froggatt – whistling, kookaburra * Rakiem Walker – saxophone * Gerald Thomas – baritone sax * Michael Lewis – trumpet * Benjamin Morss – Rhodes piano * Bendji – timbales

References

External links

''Hand Over Your Loved Ones''
at YouTube (streamed copy where licensed) {{Authority control Wheatus albums 2003 albums Columbia Records albums Pop albums by American artists