"Beer" is a song by American ska punk band Reel Big Fish and featured on their debut album Everything Sucks in 1995 as well as their major label debut Turn the Radio Off the following year. While not achieving the chart success of the album's lead single, "Sell Out", the song is credited with having kept the band's popularity alive over the years and becoming the band's most downloaded song, and continues to be a staple at live shows. History Lead singer and guitarist Aaron Barrett was inspired to write the song after noticing bassist Matt Wong and drummer Andrew Gonzales were into drinking beer at the time, and sought to make a song about that, which they immediately supported. The original composition featured no horn parts because the band's horn section had just quit, in conjunction with the fact that Barrett took heavy inspiration from the guitar-driven ska sound of Sublime. Barrett considers it Reel Big Fish's attempt at writing a Sublime song. The song was originally released on the band's third demo tape, Buy This! in 1994. The following year, a similar recording was featured on the band's debut album Everything Sucks. When the song was once again re-recorded for the band's major label debut, Turn the Radio Off in 1996, additional instrumentation was added. Already a popular song at live shows, the song was picked up to be used on the soundtrack for the film BASEketball in 1998, which also saw the band featured in the film performing the song. At this point the song was released as a promotional single. The Turn the Radio Off recording of the song was featured on the compilations Favorite Noise (2002) and Greatest Hit...and More (2006) and additional studio re-recordings are featured as a bonus track on the album We're Not Happy 'til You're Not Happy (2005) and on the greatest hits compilation A Best of Us for the Rest of Us (2010). A live version is featured on the album Our Live Album Is Better than Your Live Album (2006) and an acoustic version is on the album Skacoustic (2016).

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“At the present time, ale and beer, according to the will of the brewer, approach or recede from one another in their composition and consequent qualities, and are definable only in their extremes. We have reason to believe that our ancestors made a complete distinction: that, with them, ale was the pure wine of the malt, and that beer was that wine mixed with hops, or other bitter ingredients.”
— David Booth, The Art of Brewing (1829) Ch. IV, "Of the Materials of Ale and Beer", p. 19.
“I adduce reasons to show that the manufacture of beer was the earliest art of primitive man; an art exceeding in antiquity that of the potter or of the wine maker, and certainly that of the baker.”
— James Death, The Beer of the Bible: One of the Hitherto Unknown Leavens of Exodus... (1887) Preface, p. 4.
“Let beer be for those who are perishing, wine for those who are in anguish! Let them drink and forget their poverty and remember their misery no more.”
— Proverbs 31:6-7, New International Version. (Many translations have "strong drink" rather than "beer").
“This is grain, which any fool can eat, but for which the Lord intended a more divine means of consumption. Let us give praise to our Maker and glory to His bounty by learning about…beer!”
— Friar Tuck, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves

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Overview

"Beer" is a song by American ska punk band Reel Big Fish and featured on their debut album Everything Sucks in 1995 as well as their major label debut Turn the Radio Off the following year. While not achieving the chart success of the album's lead single, "Sell Out", the song is credited with having kept the band's popularity alive over the years and becoming the band's most downloaded song, and continues to be a staple at live shows. History Lead singer and guitarist Aaron Barrett was inspired to write the song after noticing bassist Matt Wong and drummer Andrew Gonzales were into drinking beer at the time, and sought to make a song about that, which they immediately supported. The original composition featured no horn parts because the band's horn section had just quit, in conjunction with the fact that Barrett took heavy inspiration from the guitar-driven ska sound of Sublime. Barrett considers it Reel Big Fish's attempt at writing a Sublime song. The song was originally released on the band's third demo tape, Buy This! in 1994. The following year, a similar recording was featured on the band's debut album Everything Sucks. When the song was once again re-recorded for the band's major label debut, Turn the Radio Off in 1996, additional instrumentation was added. Already a popular song at live shows, the song was picked up to be used on the soundtrack for the film BASEketball in 1998, which also saw the band featured in the film performing the song. At this point the song was released as a promotional single. The Turn the Radio Off recording of the song was featured on the compilations Favorite Noise (2002) and Greatest Hit...and More (2006) and additional studio re-recordings are featured as a bonus track on the album We're Not Happy 'til You're Not Happy (2005) and on the greatest hits compilation A Best of Us for the Rest of Us (2010). A live version is featured on the album Our Live Album Is Better than Your Live Album (2006) and an acoustic version is on the album Skacoustic (2016).

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

"Beer" is a song by American ska punk band Reel Big Fish and featured on their debut album Everything Sucks in 1995 as well as their major label debut Turn the Radio Off the following year. While not achieving the chart success of the album's lead single, "Sell Out", the song is credited with having kept the band's popularity alive over the years and becoming the band's most downloaded song, and continues to be a staple at live shows.

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Notable quotes

“At the present time, ale and beer, according to the will of the brewer, approach or recede from one another in their composition and consequent qualities, and are definable only in their extremes. We have reason to believe that our ancestors made a complete distinction: that, with them, ale was the pure wine of the malt, and that beer was that wine mixed with hops, or other bitter ingredients.”
— David Booth, The Art of Brewing (1829) Ch. IV, "Of the Materials of Ale and Beer", p. 19.
“I adduce reasons to show that the manufacture of beer was the earliest art of primitive man; an art exceeding in antiquity that of the potter or of the wine maker, and certainly that of the baker.”
— James Death, The Beer of the Bible: One of the Hitherto Unknown Leavens of Exodus... (1887) Preface, p. 4.
“Let beer be for those who are perishing, wine for those who are in anguish! Let them drink and forget their poverty and remember their misery no more.”
— Proverbs 31:6-7, New International Version. (Many translations have "strong drink" rather than "beer").
“This is grain, which any fool can eat, but for which the Lord intended a more divine means of consumption. Let us give praise to our Maker and glory to His bounty by learning about…beer!”
— Friar Tuck, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

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