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The Mr. T Experience

Historia

The Mr. T Experience (a veces abreviado a MTX) es una banda de punk rock estadounidense formada en 1985 en Berkeley, California. Han publicado diez álbumes de estudio junto a numerosos EPs y sencillos y han realizado giras internacionales. Su música está mejor clasificada como pop punk y es internacionalmente juguetona, cómica, satírico, y en ocasiones se ocupan de cuestiones de amor y las relaciones. El nombre del grupo es tomado del actor y la personalidad de televisión Mr. T.
The Mr. T Experience sirve principalmente como la salida creativa para el cantante y guitarrista Frank Portman, compositor y único miembro original de la banda a lo largo de varios cambios en la alineación. La banda está estrechamente relacionada con el movimiento punk rock de la Bahía de San Francisco de finales de la década de 1980 y la década 1990, que gira alrededor la sede 924 Gilman Street y el sello Lookout! Records, a través del cual han publicado sus álbumes desde 1990.
MTX son contemporáneos de muchos otros grupos que surgieron de esta misma "escena", incluyendo Green Day, Operation Ivy, Rancid, Jawbreaker, The Donnas, Tilt, y NOFX. También comparten similitudes estilísticas con otras bandas no nativas de la zona de la bahía pero asociados con ese movimiento, incluyendo The Queers, Screeching Weasel, y Groovie Ghoulies. Con los años The Mr. T Experience ha realizado presentaciones, giras, y compartido sello discográfico con muchas de estas bandas. También comparten una fuerte influencia de Ramones, el cual fue más fuerte en los primeros álbumes de la banda pero aún se mantiene evidente en sus últimos trabajos.


Discografía

01- Everyone's Entitled To Their Own Opinion (1986)

1. One Big Lie
2. Just Your Way of Saying No
3. Marine Recruiter
4. Sheep
5. Surfin' Mozart
6. Danny Partridge
7. Scientific
8. Disconnection
9. Surfin' Cows
10. I'm in Love with Paula Pierce
11. Big Mistake
12. Pleasant Valley Sunday
13. Mary Mary
14. The Empty Experience


02- Night Shift At The Thrill Factory (1987)

01- Now We Are Twenty-One
02- Don't Know What I'll Do If You Don't
03- Predictable
04- A Mind Is A Terrible Thing
05- Skatin' Cows
06- Go Away
07- What Is Punk?
08- The History Of The Concept Of The Soul
09- Say Goodnight
10- Velveeta
11- She Did Me In
12- Wearing Out
13- No Milk Today (Herman's Hermits cover)
14- Slagbag
15- A Zillion Years
16- Itching Powder In The Sleeping Bags
17- Dick With Ears


03- Big Black Bugs Bleed Blue Blood (1989)

01- Supersonic
02- Up And Down
03- On The Team
04- At Gilman Street
05- Dictionary Girl
06- The End Of The Ramones
07- A Song About A Girl Who Went Shopping


04- So Long Sucker (EP) (1989)

1. So Long, Sucker
2. Zero

 
05- Making Things With Light (1990)

1. What Went Wrong
2. She's No Rocket Scientist
3. What's in the Cuckoo Clock
4. I Don't Get It
5. Zero
6. Pig Latin
7. Parasite
8. I'm Breaking Out
9. So Long, Sucker
10. A Weekend In Hogboro
11. Psycho Girl
12. The Girl Who Still Lives at Home
13. Send Me a Postdard


06- Sex Offender (EP) (1990)

01- Sex Offender
02- The Last Time I Listened To You


07- Love American Style (EP) (1991)

01- Love American Style
02- Somebody Wants To Love You
03- Spider-Man


08- Gun Crazy (EP) (1992)

01- More Than Toast
02- Swallow Everything
03- Together Tonight


09- Milk Milk Lemonade (1992)

01- Book Of Revelation
02- What Do You Want?
03- Ready Set Go
04- Two-Minute Itch
05- There's Something Wrong With Me
06- Master Of The Situation
07- Untitled
08- What Difference Does It Make (The Smiths cover)
09- Last Time I Listened To You
10- Love American Style
11- Christine Bactine
12- I Love You, But You're Standing On My Foot
13- Makeup
14- See It Now


10- Strum Und Bang, Live?! (EP) (1992)

01- Let's Be Together Tonight
02- Merry Fucking Christmas
03- Speed Racer


11- Our Bodies Our Selves (1993)

1. Somebody Who Cares
2. Love Manifesto
3. The Dustbin of History
4. Personality Seminar
5. Are You There God? It's Me Margaret
6. Martyr
7. Even Hitler Had a Girlfriend
8. Bridge to Taribithia
9. I Feel Love
10. More Than Toast
11. Swallow Everything
12. Not Guilty
13. Game Over
14. Will You Still Love Me When I Don't Love You?
15. Together Tonight
16. God Bless America


12- Tapin' Up My Heart (EP) (1994)

01- Tapin' Up My Heart
02- My Stupid Life
03- How'd The Date End¿


13- ...And The Women Who Love Them (1994)

01- Tapin' Up My Heart
02- My Stupid Life
03- I Believe In You
04- All My Promises
05- Checkers Speech
06- We Hate All The Same Things
07- Now That You Are Gone


14- Alternative Is Here To Stay! (EP) (1995)

01- Alternative Is Here To Stay
02- New Girlfriend
03- You Today


15- Love Is Dead (1996)

1. Sackcloth and Ashes
2. Ba Ba Ba Ba Ba
3. I Just Wanna Do It With You
4. Somebody's Song
5. Thank You (For Not Being One of Them)
6. Dumb Little Band
7. Hangin' On to You
8. The Future Ain't What It Used to Be
9. I Fell For You
10. Deep Deep Down
11. Can I Do The Thing?
12. I'd Do Anything For You
13. Semi-OK
14. I'm Like Yeah, But She's All No
15. That Prozac Moment
16. You're the Only One


16- ...And I Will Be With You (EP) (1997)

01- ...And I Will Be With You
02- Don't Go Breaking My Heart (Elton John cover)
03- You Alone


17- Revenge Is Sweet, And So Are You (1997)

1. Here She Comes
2. She's Coming
3. Love is Dead
4. Hell of Dumb
5. Lawnmower of Love
6. With My Looks and Your Brains
7. The Weather Is Here, Wish You Were Beautiful
8. Another Yesterday
9. Swiss Army Girlfriend
10. ...And I Will Be With You
11. Who Needs Happiness (I'd Rather Have You)
12. When I Lost
13. I Don't Need You Now
14. Our Love Will Last Forever and Ever
15. Some Foggy Mountain Top
16. You You You


18- Road To Ruin (Ramones Tribute) (1998)

1. I Just Want to Have Something to Do
2. I Wanted Everything
3. Don't Come Close
4. I Don't Need You
5. Needles and Pins
6. I'm Against It
7. I Wanna Be Sedated
8. Go Mental
9. Questioningly
10. She's the One
11. Bad Brain
12. It's A Long Way Back


19- Alcatraz (1999)

1. I Wrote a Book About Rock and Roll
2. Naomi
3. Self-Pity
4. Hey Emily
5. Tomorrow is a Harsh Mistress
6. Two of Us
7. Our Days are Numbered
8. We're Not No One
9. Re-Activate Your Heart
10. Perhaps
11. She's My Alcatraz
12. I Feel For You
13. We'll Get By


20- The Miracle Of Shame (EP) (2000)

01- Spy Vs. Spy
02- Leave The Thinking To The Smart People
03- Mr. Ramones
04- Stephanies Of The World Unite
05- I Don't Know Where Dan Treacy Lives


21- Yesterday Rules (2004)

1. She's Not a Flower
2. Fucked Up on Life
3. Oh, Just Have Some Faith in Me
4. Big, Strange, Beautiful Hammer
5. Sorry for Freaking Out on the Phone Last Night
6. The Boyfriend Box
7. London
8. Elizabeth or Fight!
9. Everybody Knows You're Crying
10. Jill
11. Shining
12. Institutionalized Misogyny
13. Take All the Time You Need


22- King Dork Approximately, The Album (2017)

01- Cinthya (With A Y)
02- Sadistic Masochism
03- King Dork Approximately
04- Still Not Done Loving You Mama
05- O'Brien Is Tryin' To Learn To Talk Hawaiian
06- Gooey Glasses
07- High School Is The Penalty For Transgressions Yet To Be Specified
08- Thinking Of Suicide?
09- I Wanna Ramone You
10- Robot Rag
11- King Dork Redux
12- Down With The Universe


23-  Shards (Compilation) (2018)

Vol. 1

01- King Dork
02- How I Made A Million In A Punk Tock Band
03- Whistle Bait
04- Unpack Your Adjectives
05- Itching Powder In The Sleeping Bags
06- Fill In The Blank
07- God Bless America
08- Sackcloth And Ashes
09- Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah
10- Semi-OK
11- Flying Jelly Attack
12- As Life Goes On You Get More And More Out Of It
13- Kenny Smokes Cloves
14- Can't Get There From Here
15- Boredom Zone
16- I Was Losing You All Along

Vol. 2

01- We Are The Future People Of Tomorrow
02- Is There Something I Should Know¿
03- Crash
04- T-Shirt Commercial
05- Vive La France
06- Time For Your Medicine
07- Hello Kitty Menendez
08- How'd The Date End?
09- Told You Once
10- Don't Go Away Go Go Girl
11- Another Yesterday
12- Gilman Street
13- I Ain't Gonna Be History
14- Look Back And Crack
15- God Bless Lawrence Livermore
16- King Dork

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