Nearly two decades after its release, Seattle indie rock band Harvey Danger’s cherished debut full-length album, Where have all the merrymakers gone?, will be released on vinyl LP for the first time ever on July 29th via No Sleep Records.

The Vinyl packaging for Where have all the merrymakers gone? will feature new artwork, designed by band members Aaron Huffman, Evan Sult and Sean Nelson, that features the same house where the band lived together during their early years - as depicted in the original cover art - now updated to reflect the passage of time.

Originally released in 1997, Where have all the merrymakers gone? catapulted the young band to stardom with the massive radio and video success of their anthemic hit song “Flagpole Sitta.” The album has since sold over half a million copies with the single still receiving regular airplay on radio stations across the country.

For many critics, Harvey Danger’s history begins and ends with “Flagpole Sitta.” However, a revisitation of Where have all the merrymakers gone? reveals an album that transcends it’s most famous song with music that is smart, sardonic and dynamic and a band that was far more than simply a “one hit wonder.” 

Harvey Danger emerged from the garages and basements of mid-'90s Seattle playing music that walked a line between indie-rock and pop-punk, with an uncommon emphasis on the clever, heartfelt lyrics. They never sought worldwide notoriety, but managed the best they could when it was thrust upon them. Simply put it was four kids, Aaron Huffman (bass), Jeff Lin (guitar), Evan Sult (drums) and Sean Nelson (vocals), who created a song and an album that made a mark on rock music and whose pleasures have only deepened with time.

In preparation for the upcoming release, singer Sean Nelson wrote a foreword for the vinyl release, looking back on the album and its unexpected success.

“Under the long shadow of 17 years’ worth of memory, I must say that listening back to the 10 songs that changed everything for us is a bracing sensation. To hear the person you were when you weren’t yet who you are now is to understand how little you understood, and to recognize how little you even could have understood. This is doubly bracing when you consider that the person you were then had everything riding on the depth of his understanding. It’s tempting to be hard on your past self, the one who made all those idiotic mistakes, who scorched so many friendships, who insisted he knew exactly what we was doing while steering car after car into ditch after ditch. And yet, temptations aside, it feels a lot better, and in a much bigger way, to hoist hindsight’s binoculars to your deteriorating eyes and spy something you love.” (full essay from Nelson can be found in the liner notes of the vinyl LP)

Flagpole Sitta

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“American Muscle”

[Verse I]
Camping out in the wild of my parents backyard
Smoking paper cigarettes cause we thought we were hard
And I was a cowboy from the start with my cap gun and my hat
Making all the neighborhood girls retreat from our attack 

[Pre]
But the world isn’t what it was
In the sixties all peace and love

[Chorus]
I’m sorry if I can’t unwind
Don’t tell me everything will be all right
Growing up in the rubble raised by American muscle

Where you’re lucky if you just survive 
You get arrested but you don’t know why
Shot down by cops in doubles
Packing American muscle

[Verse II]
So I moved out for a good four years until I had to move back in
With a little piece of paper that my parents framed it said I was just like them
So now I wake up late I masturbate I get high and look for checks in the mail
For standing on the corner asking every other mother if they’d like to donate to/ save the whales 

[Pre II]
Cause the world isn’t what it was
But I guess every generation thinks they’re fucked

[Repeat Chorus]

[Breakdown]
And we’ll have every country on its knees
The whole world forced to be free
In every mosque and temple
They’ll pray to American muscle

Where you’re lucky if you just survive
Get fucking murdered if you don’t act white
Shot down by cops in doubles
Packing American Muscle

American Muscle

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Lyrics:

Soon I'm gonna have to call an SOS
I guess I’m tired of the egos 
And the way you dress
I try to tell you good job and you just say yes
Well OK
I really tried my best

Thumbs up 
It’s cool man 
Don’t you worry about a thing

It’s all you
Forgive me 
And all my insecurities 

I won’t be 
So petty 
No next time I won’t be the same 
If you know what I mean 
Oooh sha la la la la la la

Someone’s gonna have to call the CDC 
This is spreading like a cancer 
And it’s killing me 
I try my best to keep away the negativity 
But You know what
I’m only human okay

Thumbs up 
It’s cool man 
Don’t you worry about a thing

It’s all you
Forgive me 
And all my insecurities 

I won’t be 
So petty 
No next time I won’t be the same 
If you know what I mean 
Oooh sha la la la la la la

I know you like it slow
But I hear it getting old
I see you reaching low 

You need some humbling
I hear you mumbling
God I hate rock n roll

And really no offense
I'm just getting a sense 
That you take yourself a little seriously 
though

Just take a minute to resent yourself 
Like I do

Thumbs up 
It’s cool man 
Don’t you worry about a thing

It’s all you
Forgive me 
And all my insecurities 

I won’t be 
So petty 
No next time I won’t be the same 
If you know what I mean 
Oooh sha la la la la la la

Thumbs Up

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