Energy (album)

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Energy

Studio album by Operation Ivy
Released	Original: 1989 CD: 1991
Recorded	September 1987 - January 1989
Genre	Ska Punk\Ska-core
Length	49:51
Label	Lookout!
Producer(s)	Operation Ivy
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Operation Ivy chronology
Hectic (1988)	Energy (1989)	None

Energy is the only full album released by the ska/punk band Operation Ivy. It's been cited as one of the most important albums of the Skacore genre. Energy was released twice, the second time with the addition of eight tracks. The original release (1989) was only nineteen tracks (the first nineteen listed below) and released only on Vinyl and Cassette. The 1991 CD release added tracks from other albums. Tracks twenty through twenty-five were originally on the Operation Ivy EP Hectic, while the tracks "Officer" and "I Got No" were taken from the Turn It Around compliation. In 2004 Hellcat Records re-released the nineteen track version as a 12" LP picture disc.

In 2006, the album was ranked as the 1st highest rated punk albums of 1989 on Sputnikmusic.<ref> Highest Rated Albums: 1989 (HTML). Sputnikmusic. Retrieved on November 11, 2006.</ref>

1 Recording and Style
2 Influence and Covers
3 Track listing
4 Personnel
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Recording and Style

Operation Ivy tried to record Energy at Gilman but because of problems, they set out to record at Sound and Vision in San Francisco, in January 1989. As Hectic, Energy had outtakes that were later put into a CD called Unreleased Energy. Energy has been said to be more mature and less hardcore than Hectic.

[edit] Influence and Covers

Energy is widely regarded, along with Destruction by Definition by Suicide Machines, as a pivotal album of Skacore. Many artists have covered the songs on Energy (and Hectic), including a compilation called Take Warning: The Songs of Operation Ivy.