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The Mr. T Experience are a band from Berkeley, California who began in the 1980s. Taking their name from bouncer-turned-actor and television personality Mr. T, their lyrics are often of a comic, satirical nature. They emerged out of the Gilman Street Project/Lookout! Records punk-pop scene that also produced Green Day and Operation Ivy. With nearly each album their lineup has shifted, with Dr. Frank now being the only original member of the trio. Their most recent album, Yesterday Rules, was released in 2004. They are perhaps best known for introducing just about every song with the line, "This is a song about a girl…"
The band's song "More Than Toast" was featured on EA Sports's video game NCAA Football 2006, along with other bands such as Lagwagon, Jawbreaker and NOFX
They are probably best known for their albums Revenge is Sweet, And So Are You, Love Is Dead, and Our Bodies, Our Selves which contains the song, Even Hitler Had A Girlfriend.
Newest studio album is 2004's Yesterday Rules.
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| 1986 |
1. Everybody's Entitled to their Own Opinion |
Disorder |
Also reissued on Lookout! Records in 1990 and 1995.
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
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| 1988 |
2. Night Shift at the Thrill Factory |
Rough Trade |
Also reissued on Lookout! Records in 1996.
1. Now We Are Twenty-One
2. Don't Know What I'll Do If You Don't
3. Predictable
4. A Mind Is A Terrible Thing
5. Skatin' Cows
6. Go Away
7. What Is Punk?
8. The History Of The Concept Of The Soul
9. Say Goodnight
10. Velveeta
11. She Did Me In
12. Wearing Out
13. No Milk Today
14. Slagbag
15. A Zillion Years
16. Itching Powder In Sleeping Bags
17. Dick With Ears
BONUS TRACKS (included on the CD reissue):
18. I Ain't Gonna Be History
19. Kenny Smokes Cloves
20. Time For Your Medicine
21. Boredom Zone
22. Gilman Street
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| 1989 |
3. Big Black Bugs Bleed Blue Blood |
Rough Trade |
Also reissued on Lookout! Records in 1997.
1. Supersonic
2. Up and Down
3. On the Team
4. At Gilman Street
5. Dictionary Girl
6. End of the Ramones
7. A Song About A Girl Who Went Shopping
BONUS TRACKS (included on the CD reissue):
8. Flying Jelly Attack
9. So Long, Sucker
10. Zero
11. Psycho Girl
12. Fill in the Blank
13. How I Made A Million in a Punk Rock Band
14. Look Back and Crack
15. Sex Offender
16. Last Time I Listened To You
17. Love American Style
18. Somebody Wants To Love You
19. Spider-Man
20. Can't Get There From Here
21. God Bless America
22. Let's Be Together Tonight
23. Merry Fuckin' Chirstmas
24. Speed Racer
25. T-Shirt Commercial
26. Viva La France
27. More Than Toast
28. Swallow Everything
29. God Bless Lawrence Livermore
30. Don't Go Away Go Go Girl
31. Hello Kitty Menendez
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| 1990 |
4. Making Things With Light |
Lookout! Records |
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 Postcard
14 Untitled Spoken Word Piece [live]
15 Now We Are Twenty-One [live]
16 Danny Partridge Got Busted [live]
17 Marine Recruiter [live]
18 Slagbag [live]
19 Velveeta [live]
20 A Zillion Years [live]
21 The History of the Concept of the Soul [live]
22 Flying Jelly Attack [[[Shonen Knife]] Cover]
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