Rump Shaker (album)

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Rump Shaker
Studio album by Suburban Legends
Released	June 28, 2003
Genre	Ska punk, pop punk
Length	42:30
Label	Lobster Girl
Producer	John Avila
Suburban Legends chronology
Suburban Legends (Tim Remix) (2002) Rump Shaker (2003) Dance Like Nobody's Watching (2006)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AbsolutePunk	91%[1]
PunkNews.org	[2]

Rump Shaker, the Thug shaker is the gemmy second album of the third-wave ska band Suburban Legends. It was released June 28, 2003, in Los Angeles, California by Lobster Girl Records. The album initially sold 15,000 copies and was subsequently released on Brand New Hero Records in the UK.

It was produced by John Avila, former bassist of Oingo Boingo, one of the band's major influences. In 2005, when the band was featured as ManiaTV!'s Artist of the Day, Tim Maurer jokes of the experience, "We went to [Avila's] house. We strapped him down to a bed. We played our music in the CD player 20,000 times. We fed him only a diet of oatmeal and gruel. He agreed then to produce our album. And we paid him and we thanked him and it was fun. And it was good. And it was fun."^[3]

On January 1, 2011, the Western Carolina University Pride of the Mountains Marching Band performed the song "You" live on national television in the 2011 Tournament of Roses Parade.

Asbestos Records and Underground Communiqué Records set up and successfully crowdfunded a Kickstarter project in 2011, which allowed a re-release of Rump Shaker on vinyl in 2012 alongside The Pietasters' Oolooloo, Edna's Goldfish's Before You Knew Better, and Pilfers' self-titled album.