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[[File:fif-gameover_1689.jpg|frame|"Five Iron is stupid and<br />You are if you like them also!... too."]]
▲{{quote|We've been given superpowers,<br />
▲ask us for an autograph.<br />
▲We sing, we dance,<br />
▲we make you laugh.<br />
Don't you want to be like us?|'''Five Iron Frenzy''', "Superpowers"}}
{{quote|Five Iron Frenzy
They were good, They were good, They were really really really good!
Five Iron Frenzy
When you see them, we really really think you should
Thank them for being so cool and so awesome
Yeah, thank them for being so neat-o|'''Relient K''' "Five Iron Frenzy Is Either Dead Or Dying"}}
[[Five Iron Frenzy]] is an eight-piece rock band from Denver, Colorado, that formed in 1995. Initially they played straightforward ska-punk, though the albums after their first saw them mix this with a more mainstream rock sound (or, on ''All The Hype That Money Can Buy'' playing [[Genre Roulette]]) while keeping the horn section. On their 2001 album ''Five Iron Frenzy 2: [[Oddly-Named Sequel 2: Electric Boogaloo]]'', they again rebranded themselves with a harder, heavy metal-influenced sound (while ''still'' keeping the horn section), and kept this style for the remainder of their career. (They continued playing their old songs at live shows, but in the style of their new songs.) In January 2003, they announced that the time had come to move on with their lives and call it quits before they could start hating each other. They recorded one more proper studio album, went on a nationwide farewell tour, and played their final show before a capacity crowd at the Fillmore Stadium in Denver.
Any rumors of a reunion are almost certainly lies... at least until on November 22nd, 2011, eight years exactly after their final show, the band announced that they were [[And the Fandom Rejoiced|reuniting to record a whole new album, funded by a Kickstarter project,]] which reached the $30,000 goal ''in less than an hour'', then ''doubled.'' Then ''tripled.'' [[Ad Nauseam]] and Five Iron Frenzy became the highest funded musical Kickstarter project ever, raising more than $207k before the Kickstarter drive ended.
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* Andy Verdecchio: drums
{{discography}}
* ''Upbeats and Beatdowns'' (1996)
* ''Our Newest Album Ever!'' (1997)
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* ''Five Iron Frenzy 2: [[Oddly-Named Sequel 2: Electric Boogaloo]]'' (2001)
* ''Cheeses (of Nazareth)'' (2003): A collection of b-sides, rare songs, and twenty tracks of random crap the band made up in the studio.
* ''The End is <s>Near</s> Here'' (2003, 2004) "Near" was the band's final studio album. "Here" was a [[Limited Special Collectors' Ultimate Edition|rerelease]] with an extra studio track, and a second disc containing their entire final live show.
Also, four of their cd's (''Our Newest Album Ever'', ''Quantity is Job 1'', ''Proof that the Youth are Revolting'', and ''The End is <s>Near</s> Here'') featured some awesomely surreal original artwork by [[Doug Ten Napel]].
Compare and contrast with their side project, [[Brave Saint Saturn]].
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* [[Celebrity Is Overrated]]
* [[Cool Old Guy]]
* [[Dancin' in the Ruins]]
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* [[Anticlimax]]: Played with quite vigorously at their final show: Reese explained how he hated the practice of bands planning to play an encore and saving their biggest hit for it. He then said that FIF would play the best song they've ever written right then, in the middle of the show, so people could go home early if they wanted. Then they proceeded to play "Pootermobile", which consists of five notes followed by thirty seconds of silence and the title of the song. Dennis then claimed that the rest of the show would be all downhill from there.
* [[Audience Participation Song]]: "Handbook for the Sellout". At live shows, Reese would simply stick the mic into the crowd and let them sing the entire first stanza for him.
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* [[Fully-Absorbed Finale]]: The song "That's How the Story Ends" wraps up alleged loose ends from other songs, as well as providing a [[Where Are They Now? Epilogue]] to some others.
* [[Geek]]/[[Nerd]]: "Suckerpunch" is about a "pencil-necked geek" getting picked on in middle school. "You Can't Handle This" is from the perspective of someone bragging about his geek-fu. [[Wild Mass Guessing|It's possible both songs are about the same person.]]
* [[A Good Name for a Rock Band]]
* [[Hilarious Outtakes]]: Both their live albums.
** ''Proof That The Youth Are Revolting'' was edited together from 11 different concerts. The album's hidden track was a collection of all the times they messed up over the course of the tour, and some of their stranger-than-usual stage banter.
** On ''The End is Here'', some stage banter (and a few of the short, silly songs) had to be cut in order for the concert to fit on one CD. Most of this material was added to the end of the studio disc ''The End is Near''.
* [[Limited Special Collectors' Ultimate Edition]]: ''The End is Here''.
* [[Literary Allusion Title]]: Used in their [[And the Fandom Rejoiced|newest]] musical entry [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Odyr5GaHPy0 "It Was A Dark And Stormy Night"].
* [[Lyrical Dissonance]]: "Blue Comb '78" is an overwrought, dramatic song... about a comb that Reese lost when he was 8. Subverted in that {{spoiler|it's a subtle metaphor for his parent's divorce and his loss of innocence.}}
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** No, it's okay, he's actually alive. He didn't die by plague or prison; what really died was cynicism.
* [[Old Media Are Evil]]: "Anchors Away" takes aim at TV news, accusing them of eschewing accurate reporting in favor of [[You Can Panic Now|fear-mongering]].
* [[Proud to Be a Geek]]: "You Can't Handle This," "Wizard Needs Food Badly," and much of "At Least I'm Not Like All Those Other Old Guys."
* [[Self-Deprecation]]: Both silly and serious (the aforementioned "Eulogy"). They named their farewell tour The Winners Never Quit Tour.
* [[Sound Effect Bleep]]/[[This Trope Is Bleep]]: Used ''extensively'' in "These Are Not My Pants (Part 8)". Just the first two lines:
{{quote|
Yo we didn't have nothin' to [BLEEP] }}
** Also used ''randomly'' in same. There's even a final [BLEEP] several seconds after the music ends.
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