# Five Lessons Learned
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{{Infobox album
| name = Five Lessons Learned
| type = [Album](/source/Album)
| artist = [Swingin' Utters](/source/Swingin'_Utters)
| cover = Swingin' Utters - Five Lessons Learned.gif
| alt =
| released = June 23, 1998
| recorded = Winter of 1997–98, at Motor Studios, [San Francisco](/source/San_Francisco), [California](/source/California)
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = [Punk rock](/source/Punk_rock)[[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r351679|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic review]]
}}
'''''Five Lessons Learned''''' is the fourth full-length [album](/source/album) by American [punk rock](/source/punk_rock) band [Swingin' Utters](/source/Swingin'_Utters). Released in 1998, it was their second album on [Fat Wreck Chords](/source/Fat_Wreck_Chords).
==Background==
This album's title track was used on the [video game](/source/video_game) ''[Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2](/source/Tony_Hawk's_Pro_Skater_2)'', perhaps making it the band's most widely heard song. "I Need Feedback", however, was the only [single](/source/Single_(music)) released from this album.[[http://www.fatwreck.com/record/detail/573 Fat Wreck Chords, "I Need Feedback"] accessed 1 Sep 2008] Also, the song "This Bastard's Life" is featured in music video game ''[Rock Band 3](/source/Rock_Band_3)''.
The Track "Tell Me Lies" was also featured in a VHS BMX Video called "Dig" Featuring Tim "Fuzzy" Hall and TJ Lavin. The track is played during a Backyard Dirt Session.
''Five Lessons Learned'' is mainly an album of short, fast songs in the '[punk revival](/source/punk_revival)' style - "I Need Feedback" borrows a [riff](/source/riff) from [The Damned](/source/The_Damned_(band))'s "[Neat Neat Neat](/source/Neat_Neat_Neat)" - but there is also a [ska](/source/ska)-esque song ("Unpopular Again"), and an [Irish folk](/source/Music_of_Ireland)-style song ("Fruitless Fortunes"), hinting at the band's future direction, and that of the side-project, the [Filthy Thievin' Bastards](/source/Filthy_Thievin'_Bastards).
The outer and inner cover art is by [photographer](/source/photographer) Steve Zeigler [[http://www.stephenzeigler.com/ Stephen Zeigler, Photographer] accessed 1 Sep 2008] and features black-and-white shots involving guns, crime and [murder scenes](/source/Forensics) (in one picture, the date "[2-14](/source/St._Valentine's_Day_Massacre)-47" is etched in [chalk](/source/chalk)).
The presence of the head of the [Fat Wreck Chords](/source/Fat_Wreck_Chords) [label](/source/Record_label), [NOFX](/source/NOFX)'s [Fat Mike](/source/Fat_Mike), is felt in that he co-[produces](/source/Record_producer) and plays [bass guitar](/source/bass_guitar) on "Unpopular Again". Another of the many guest musicians is [Chris Shiflett](/source/Chris_Shiflett), later of [Foo Fighters](/source/Foo_Fighters).
==Track listing==
# "Five Lessons Learned" ''(Koski/Aust Koski)'' – 1:55
# "Tell Me Lies" ''(Huber)'' – 2:09
# "A Promise to Distinction" ''(Koski)'' – 2:08
# "The Stooge" ''(Koski)'' – 3:27
# "(The) Picture's Perfect" ''(Huber)'' – 2:37
# "This Bastard's Life" ''(Huber)'' – 3:05
# "As You Start Leaving" ''(Koski)'' – 2:44
# "I Need Feedback" ''(Huber)'' – 3:27
# "Good People" ''(Koski)'' – 2:18
# "As Sure as I'm down" ''(Bonnel)'' – 2:01
# "Untitled 21" ''(Huber)'' – 2:36
# "Unpopular Again" ''(Huber)'' – 3:16
# "New Day Rising" ''(Koski)'' – 1:49
# "Two Jacks Shitty" ''(Bonnel)'' – 1:43
# "Fruitless Fortunes" ''(Koski)'' – 2:52
==Personnel==
* [Johnny Bonnel](/source/Johnny_Bonnel) ([vocals](/source/Singing))
* [Max Huber](/source/Max_Huber_(musician)) ([guitar](/source/guitar)s, vocals, [bass](/source/Bass_guitar) on track #8, [percussion](/source/Percussion_instrument))
* [Greg McEntee](/source/Greg_McEntee) ([drums](/source/Drum_kit) and percussion)
* Darius Koski (guitar, vocals, [accordion](/source/accordion), [violin](/source/violin), bass on tracks #1, #4 & #5)
===Additional musicians===
* [John Maurer](/source/John_Maurer_(Social_Distortion)) (bass on tracks #2, #3, #6, #7, #9, #10, #13 & #14)
* [Howie Pyro](/source/Howie_Pyro) (bass on track #11)
* [Fat Mike](/source/Fat_Mike) (bass on track #12)
* Rockin [Lloyd Tripp](/source/Lloyd_Tripp) ([upright bass](/source/Double_bass) on track #15)
* [Seth Lorenzi](/source/Seth_Lorenzi) ([Hammond](/source/Hammond_organ) and [Vox](/source/Vox_(musical_equipment)) organs, [electric piano](/source/Electronic_organ))
* [Max Butler](/source/Max_Butler) ([mandolin](/source/mandolin))
* [Chris Shiflett](/source/Chris_Shiflett) ([lead guitar](/source/lead_guitar) on tracks #8 and #11)
* [Ryan Greene](/source/Ryan_Greene) ([tambourine](/source/tambourine) on track #12)
* [Spike Slawson](/source/Spike_Slawson) (backup vocals on tracks #5 and #8)
* Morty Okin ([trumpet](/source/trumpet)) [http://www.newmortyshow.com/]
* Van Hughes ([trombone](/source/trombone))
* David Murotake ([tenor saxophone](/source/tenor_saxophone))
* Tom Griesser ([baritone saxophone](/source/baritone_saxophone))
Image:Chris Shiflett.jpg|Chris Shiflett (who appears on two tracks); seen here as a member of [Foo Fighters](/source/Foo_Fighters)
Image:Fatmikecapetownsouthafrica.jpg|Fat Mike
==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.swinginutters.com Official Swingin' Utters website]
* [{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r351679|pure_url=yes}} "Five Lessons Learned" on Allmusic]
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