Medium Rare (The Mighty Mighty Bosstones album)
# Medium Rare (The Mighty Mighty Bosstones album)

Medium Rare is a compilation album by the Mighty Mighty Bosstones, released on December 18, 2007, on Big Rig Records. It contains three new songs, nine previously unreleased tracks and some rare B-sides. This is also the band's first release since they went on hiatus in 2003.

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## Track listing

All songs were written and composed by Dicky Barrett and Joe Gittleman.

* "This List" - 4:21
* "The Meaning" - 2:34
* "Don't Worry Desmond Dekker" - 3:38
* "To California" - 3:11
* "The One with the Woes All Over It" - 2:59
* "So Many Ways" - 2:36
* "A Reason to Toast" - 2:58
* "Who's Fooling Who?" - 2:33
* "Katie" - 3:10
* "This Time of Year" - 2:17
* "Chocolate Pudding" - 3:01
* "Is It?" - 2:52
* "Favorite Records" - 4:36

### Song information

* "This List", "Don't Worry Desmond Dekker" and "The One with the Woes All Over It" are brand new songs, recorded and produced by the Bosstones during the fall of 2007.
* "The Meaning" and "Favorite Records" are B-sides from the Pay Attention sessions (2000). "The Meaning" was released as a vinyl bonus track on Pay Attention while "Favorite Records" is previously unreleased. It seems to be a song about Phil Spector.
* "To California" and "Katie" are previously unreleased tracks from A Jackknife to a Swan sessions (2002).
* "Is It?", "So Many Ways" and "Who's Fooling Who?" are B-sides from the Let's Face It sessions (1997). "Is It?" appears on "The Impression That I Get" (Australian/UK) single (1997) and The Rascal King (US) 7" single (1998). "So Many Ways" appears on the second UK The Impression That I Get single (1997). An alternate version of "Who's Fooling Who?" appears on the compilation CD Mashin' Up the Nation, Best of American Ska Volumes 3 & 4 (1998).
* "This Time of Year" and "A Reason to Toast" were originally recorded in 2001 (along with other songs that would later appear on A Jackknife to a Swan). "This Time of Year" originally appears on a promotional Bosstones CD given out during the 2001 Hometown Throwdown and A Santa Cause: It's a Punk Rock Christmas (2003). An extended version of "A Reason to Toast" appears on an EP split with Madcap (2001).
* "Chocolate Pudding" was a B-side from the Question the Answers sessions (1994). It originally appears as a bonus track on Question the Answers (Japanese import version), the "Kinder Words" single (1994), and the Here We Go Again EP (1995).

## Personnel

* Dicky Barrett - lead vocals
* Tim "Johnny Vegas" Burton - saxophone
* Ben Carr - manager and "Bosstone", vocals
* Joe Gittleman - bass, background vocals
* Lawrence Katz - guitar, background vocals
* Joe Sirois - drums
* Chris Rhodes - trombone
* Roman Fleysher - saxophone
* Nate Albert - guitar, background vocals
* Dennis Brockenborough - trombone
* Kevin Lenear - saxophone
* Dave Aaronoff - keyboards, background vocals
