Three Years Two Months Eleven Days

Three Years Two Months Eleven Days
Compilation album by
Ensign
ReleasedApril 2000
RecordedJanuary 1996 – July 1998
StudioNew Jersey; Staten Island; Corona, California
GenreHardcore punk
Length46:57
LabelIndecision Records
ProducerEnsign, Pete Koller
Ensign chronology
Cast the First Stone
(1999) 		Three Years Two Months Eleven Days
(2000) 		For What It's Worth
(2000)
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Three Years Two Months Eleven Days was an album of early material, often referred to as a retrospective, by the American band Ensign. Recorded in various sessions between January 1996 and July 1998 – including a live recording – and with varying members, it was released by the band's first record label, Indecision Records, in April 2000.

Overview

Ensign had recorded two EPs – a self-titled 7-inch and the Fall from Grace 7-inch – and a full-length debut, Direction of Things to Come, for Orange County, California label Indecision Records before departing for the larger Nitro Records in 1998. Far from seeing this as a cashing-in exercise by Indecision on the band's new, wider audience, it was seen as filling the gaps in the essential history of a band who would go on to tour with metalcore band, Hatebreed in 2002. Most of the material was either unreleased, out-of-print or very rare.

Style-wise, it was more akin to Direction of Things to Come than anything they did subsequently on either Nitro Records or Blackout Records. Straightforward, short blasts of hardcore punk in the New York hardcore mould that they had imported to the Californian shores in 1995.

Track listing

All songs written by Ensign, unless stated.

  1. "Alzheimers" – 1:24
  2. "Pale Horse" – 2:28
  3. "Trying Again" (Ensign, Ron Wood) – 1:56
  4. "Enemy of My Enemy" – 2:46
  5. "Standing" – 2:25
  6. "MPSR" – 1:54
  7. "Blue Skies" – 3:22
  8. "Fall from Grace" – 1:57
  9. "Uncommon Bond" – 2:09
  10. "MPSR #2" – 1:49
  11. "We'll Make the Difference" (Insted) – 2:18
  12. "Hold" – 2:02
  13. "Say It" (Underdog) – 2:10
  14. "Tourniquet" – 1:50
  15. "Where Did We Go Wrong" – 1:48
  16. "Fade into Years" – 1:51
  17. "Target" – 1:52
  18. "Intro" – 1:23
  19. "Page 32" – 2:18
  20. "Day by Day" – 1:36
  21. "Revolutions End" – 1:04
  22. "First, Last, Only" – 2:36
  23. "Foundation" – 2:01

Credits

  • Tim Shaw – vocals (all tracks)
  • John Fraunberger – guitar (tracks 1–15)
  • Ryan "Mackenzie" Donoghue – guitar (tracks 16–23)
  • Walt Svekla – bass (tracks 1–7)
  • Nate "Edge" Gluck – bass (tracks 8–23)
  • Chris Ross – drums (tracks 1–7)
  • Ryan Murphy – drums (tracks 8–23)

Tracks 1–7

  • Recorded January 11–15, 1996 at Sweetwood Sound, New Jersey
  • Produced by Sick of It All's Pete Koller
  • Engineered by Alap Momin and Keith Deblasi

Tracks 8–13

  • Recorded 1996 in New Jersey
  • Produced by Sick of It All's Pete Koller
  • Mixed by Noah Evans

Tracks 14–15

  • Recorded at John's Place, Staten Island, New York

Tracks 16–17

  • Recorded in November 1997 at Third Studio from the Sun, Wayne, New Jersey
  • Engineered by Dave Meyer

Tracks 18–23

  • Lance Wells (guest vocals)
  • Recorded live on July 25, 1998, at the Showcase Theater, Corona, California

References

  1. ^ Sherry, James (May 13, 2000). "Albums". Kerrang!. No. 801. EMAP. p. 45.