Fat Club

The Fat Club is a series of twelve 7-inch singles released monthly by Fat Wreck Chords from March 2001 to February 2002. 1,300 of each single were pressed; They were not available for sale individually, but were distributed by postal service to those who purchased a subscription to the series.^[1]

The series featured bands who had not previously been associated with the label: Of the 12 bands who participated, only three—NOFX, Swingin' Utters, and Strung Out—were already part of the Fat Wreck Chords roster. Three of the participating bands had other one-off releases with Fat following their participation in the Fat Club: MxPx's The Renaissance EP (2001), Randy's Randy the Band (2005), and Strike Anywhere's Dead FM (2006). Three of the bands—The Lawrence Arms, The Real McKenzies, and American Steel—became long-term additions to Fat Wreck Chords' roster, releasing multiple albums through the label in the years following. Only The Vandals, Enemy You, and One Man Army have had no further releases through Fat Wreck Chords.

Though the singles were limited, several of the bands re-released their tracks on compilation albums in the years following, including NOFX's 45 or 46 Songs That Weren't Good Enough to Go on Our Other Records (2002), Strike Anywhere's To Live in Discontent (2005), The Lawrence Arms' Cocktails & Dreams (2005), Swingin' Utters' Hatest Grits: B-Sides and Bullshit (2008), and Strung Out's Prototypes and Painkillers (2009). All of the tracks from the series were re-released as part of the Fat Wreck Chords twentieth anniversary compilation Wrecktrospective in 2009.^[2]

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Catalog	Band	Release date
FAT205	The Vandals	April 2001^[3]
FAT202	American Steel	April 2001^[4]
FAT201	The Real McKenzies	May 2001^[5]
FAT208	MxPx	June 2001^[6]
FAT203	Strike Anywhere	July 2001^[7]
FAT204	Randy	August 2001^[8]
FAT209	NOFX	September 2001^[9]
FAT207	Swingin' Utters	October 2001^[10]
FAT210	Strung Out	November 2001^[11]
FAT206	Enemy You	December 2001^[12]
FAT211	The Lawrence Arms	January 2002^[13]
FAT212	One Man Army	February 2002 ^[14]

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Why Are You Alive?"	Warren Fitzgerald	2:34
Total length:			6:13

No.	Title	Length
1.	"New Religion Everyday"	3:17
Total length:		7:17

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Loch Lomond"	traditional	3:20
Total length:			5:59

No.	Title	Length
1.	"You Hold the Key"	2:49
Total length:		5:50

Fat Club

Summary of releases

Track listings and personnel

The Vandals

American Steel

The Real McKenzies

MxPx

Strike Anywhere

Randy

NOFX

Swingin' Utters

Strung Out

Enemy You

The Lawrence Arms

One Man Army

References

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Side B
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Unite"	2:26
2.	"Freedom Song"	3:15
Total length:		8:48

Side B
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Spaghetti Motel"	Fat Mike, Bill Bartell	1:58
Total length:			3:38

Side B
No.	Title	Length
1.	"A Toast"	2:33
2.	"Overheated"	4:18
Total length:		9:25

Side B
No.	Title	Length
1.	"She Wants Me Dead"	2:04
Total length:		4:36