We Are the Champions of the World: The Best Of

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We Are the Champions of the World: The Best Of
📅 Released	March 30, 2018
🎙️ Recorded	1999-2014
⏳ Length	1:16:54
🏷️ Label	Fat Wreck Chords
The Lawrence Arms chronology
Metropole (2014) We Are the Champions of the World: The Best Of (2018)

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We Are the Champions of the World: The Best Of is a compilation album of material by the Chicago punk rock band The Lawrence Arms. Released in 2018 by Fat Wreck Chords, it spans the band's entire career, and includes songs that were released on Fat, Asian Man Records, and Epitaph Records. It concludes with 5 non-album tracks, four of which were previously unreleased on any format.

Track listing

No.	Title	From album	Length
1.	"On With the Show"	The Greatest Story Ever Told (2003)	1:20
2.	"Great Lakes/Great Escapes"	Oh! Calcutta! (2006)	2:50
3.	"Alert the Audience!"	The Greatest Story Ever Told (2003)	2:05
4.	"100 Resolutions"	Present Day Memories (2001)	3:28
5.	"The Devil's Takin' Names"	Oh! Calcutta! (2006)	2:00
6.	"Beautiful Things"	Metropole (2014)	3:02
7.	"Quincentuple Your Money"	Present Day Memories (2014)	3:00
8.	"The Slowest Drink at the Saddest Bar on the Snowiest Day in the Greatest City"	Buttsweat and Tears (2009)	3:13
9.	"Are You There Margaret? It's Me, God"	Oh! Calcutta! (2006)	3:36
10.	"Right as Rain Part 2"	Apathy and Exhaustion (2002)	2:39
11.	"Seventeener (17th and 37th)"	Metropole (2014)	2:39
12.	"Chapter 13: The Hero Appears"	The Greatest Story Ever Told (2003)	2:50
13.	"The Ramblin' Boys of Pleasure"	The Greatest Story Ever Told (2003)	2:44
14.	"Light Breathing (Me and Martha Plimpton in a Fancy Elevator)"	Ghost Stories (2000)	2:58
15.	"Like a Record Player"	Oh! Calcutta! (2006)	2:02
16.	"You Are Here"	Metropole (2014)	2:46
17.	"Boatless Booze Cruise Part 1"	Apathy and Exhaustion (2002)	3:28
18.	"Brick Wall Views"	Apathy and Exhaustion (2002)	4:12
19.	"Sixteen Hours"	Ghost Stories (2000)	1:07
20.	"Turnstiles (Cocktails and Dreams re-recording)"	Ghost Stories (2000)	2:28
21.	"An Evening of Extraordinary Circumstance"	A Guided Tour of Chicago (1999)	2:55
22.	"The Northside, the L&L, and Any Number of Crappy Apartments"	A Guided Tour of Chicago (1999)	3:13
23.	"Porno and Snuff Films"	Apathy and Exhaustion (2002)	2:36
24.	"Demons"	Buttsweat and Tears (digital download exclusive) (2009)	2:15
25.	"The Rabbit and the Rooster"	Oh! Calcutta! (iTunes exclusive bonus track) (2006)	2:53
26.	"Catalog"	Previously unreleased	1:28
27.	"Black Snow"	Previously unreleased	2:26
28.	"Laugh Out Loud"	Previously unreleased	2:58
29.	"Warped Summer Extravaganza (Turbo Excellent)"	Previously unreleased	1:43

Performers

• Chris McCaughan - guitar, vocals
• Brendan Kelly - bass, vocals
• Neil Hennessy - drums

Album information

All songs recorded by Matt Allison at Atlas Studios in Chicago unless otherwise noted

• Tracks 1, 3, 12, and 13 recorded in June 2003
• Tracks 2, 5, 9, 15, 25, 27, and 29 recorded in October and November 2005
• Tracks 4 and 7 recorded in January 2001
• Track 6, 11, and 16 recorded from June to September 2013
• Tracks 8 and 24 recorded in 2009
• Tracks 10, 17, 18, and 23 recorded in September and October 2001
• Tracks 14 and 19 recorded at Scientific Studios in December 1999 by Mike Giampa
• Track 20 re-recorded in early 2005
• Tracks 21 and 22 recorded in at Scientific Studios in Spring 1999 by Mike Giampa
• Tracks 26 and 28 recorded in 2005 by Justin Yates
• Layout by David Holtz and Eric Baskauskas
• Photos by Ben Pier
• Cover art by Eric Baskauskas

Song information

• Every Lawrence Arms release is represented on this compilation except for their 2000 split EP with Shady View Terrace.
• The album's liner notes include personal blurbs written by songwriters Kelly and McCaughan about the writing and/or recording of each song.
• "Turnstiles" initially appeared on 2000s Ghost Stories, but was re-recorded for the 2005 compilation Cocktails & Dreams.
• On the vinyl release, "The Northside, the L&L, and Any Number of Crappy Apartments" was accidentally replaced with another track from A Guided Tour of Chicago, "Someday We're All Gonna Weigh 400 lbs." Fat Wreck Chords acknowledged the mistake on their website, accompanied by a statement from Kelly. The digital download included with the vinyl release also included "Someday We're All Gonna Weigh 400 lbs.", while the mistake was corrected when the album was uploaded to Spotify.
• "Demons" was omitted from the physical release of Buttsweat and Tears, but was included on the digital download provided with it. An alternate version appeared on the 2010 compilation Fat Music Vol. 7: Harder, Fatter + Louder!, however, this marks the first time the original EP version appears on a physical release.
• "Black Snow" was cut from Oh! Calcutta! because the band didn't feel like it fit in with the album's other material. It's lyrics refer to the gentrification that McCaughan had observed in his Chicago neighborhood.
• "Warped Summer Extravaganza (Turbo Excellent)" originally appeared as a bonus track on Oh! Calcutta!, albeit in a vastly different, country-based arrangement. The band prefers to play this faster version live, because they see it as a better fit for their live set.

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