Me First and the Gimme Gimmes - ¡Blow it…at Madison's Quinceañera! (June 14, 2024) Album

Twenty years after Me First and the Gimme Gimmes ruined Johnny's Bar Mitzvah, punk rock's premier cover band is back to wreak havoc on another important coming-of-age ceremony. This time, as the album title reveals, it was a Quinceañera. Nobody attending had ever heard of Me First and the Gimme Gimmes before, and nobody knew what to expect.

Track Listing
1. Changes
2. Love Will Keep Us Together
3. Dancing Queen
4. I Could Fall in Love
5. Estos Celos
6. La Ultima Muñeca
7. Happy Birthday
8. Por Tu Maldito Amor
9. Good 4 U
10. Queen of Hearts
11. Camino de Guanajuato
12. Before the Next Teardrop Falls
13. De Niña a Mujer

pre-order here

 

This should be fun

 

*i could fall in love*

a selena cover? fuck, i'm in.

 

Who's officially in the band now? I don't see Fat Mike or Dave in the photo...just a bunch of people I don't recognize.

 

Joey Cape and CJ Ramone are in, but not sure who else at the moment.

 

Shiflett got let go a couple of years ago iirc

 

Pretty sure that is John Reis next to Joey Cape.

 

From Fat website:

Recorded on July 15th, 2023, at The Soap Factory in San Diego, on this live outing, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes were completed by Joey Cape on guitar, CJ Ramone on bass, Swami John Reis on guitar, and Andrew "Pinch" Pinching on drums—a veritable punk rock supergroup, as ever, not that anyone at the Quinceañera knew or cared. However, they also had a horn section for the first time, courtesy of Keith Douglas and Jason Crane. Swami John Reis' father, John Reis Sr., even played accordion on the penultimate song, "Before the Next Teardrop Falls," the track made famous in 1975 by Freddy Fender. It all comes together to create a performance that rises (even as it's sinking) to the occasion. It would have been so easy for the band to play to a crowd who already knew and loved them, but that's not the Gimme Gimmes way. Besides, you get more sense of what the band is like live listening to this than you ever could from a slick performance in front of an adoring audience. For Slawson, that redemption arc is precisely the point.

 

Kinda weird seeing almost an entirely different band lineup

 

I believe he quit because they did Santa Baby without him, which he was not happy about.

 

Love this band and they're so much fun, but really wish this wasn't a live album.

 

chris_shiflett
OP•5y ago

when the gimmes decided to start releasing songs that i didn't play on it was time for me to leave, so no, i'm not involved anymore.

 

He really needs to find another band to fall back on

 

Agreed. Ruin Jonny's Bar Mitzvah was fun and all but it being 10 years since their last proper studio album I would have preferred another proper studio album.

I was pretty surprised that Me First didn't have more output as the members aged. Back in the 90s/early 00's they were huge among normies. If it took more than a month or two to produce a Me First album I would be surprised and these guys could have had a nice retirement off of festivals and streams from Wrangler-bros.

 

album is out!

 

"What happened at this show, to me, is better than unfettered, unconditional applause from a lot of people. Golf-claps from about five people is how I want to hear a live record. It’s funny, and it doesn’t stop being funny"

Stream punk supergroup Me First & The Gimme Gimmes' new album, recorded at a quinceañera (brooklynvegan.com)