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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: [[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.

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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* ''LIVE: Proof that the Youth are Revolting'' (1999)

* ''All the Hype that Money Can Buy'' (2000)

* ''Five Iron Frenzy 2: [[Electric Boogaloo]]'' (2001)

* ''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.

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* [[Celebrity Is Overrated]]

* [[Cool Old Guy]]

* [[Dancin' in ~~The~~ Ruins]]

* [[Dancin' in the Ruins]]

=== Other tropes associated with the band or their songs: ===

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** ''How The Story Ends'' has it that Combat Chuck's dying wish was that they never play his song ever again.

* [[Downer Ending]]: "Eulogy" from ''Electric Boogaloo''. ''Holy crap.''

* [[Electric Boogaloo]]: The actual title of their fifth studio album.

* [[Oddly-Named Sequel 2: Electric Boogaloo]]: The actual title of their fifth studio album.

* [[Every Episode Ending]]: After ''Our Newest Album Ever'', they would end every live show with the song "Every New Day". After ''All the Hype...'' they would end every show with "A New Hope", "World Without End", then "Every New Day". They also made a point of not doing encores.

** Even the last song of their last studio album, "On Distant Shores" on "The End Is Near," ends with the final coda of "Every New Day." This is subverted in their last album, "The End is Here," of which the first CD is a reissue of "The End Is Near" with an extra song at the end... only to be played with on the second CD, a recording of their final concert, in which the last track is "Every New Day," but it isn't quite the last song in the album.

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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]]

* [[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.

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* [[Metal Scream]]: "The Day We Killed", B-side "Mind for Treason", and the rock section of "These Are Not My Pants".

* [[My God, What Have I Done?]]: Reese introduces the above-mentioned Hilarious Outtakes on ''Proof'', claiming that this is what you'll say after hearing them.

* [[No Longer ~~With~~ Us]]: A comment about their trumpet player being "in a better place" led to fan rumor's about Brad's death. Which in turn led to a vinyl titled ''Brad is Dead'' and a song "The Untimely Death of Brad" (which, oddly enough wasn't on the aforementioned vinyl).

* [[No Longer with Us]]: A comment about their trumpet player being "in a better place" led to fan rumor's about Brad's death. Which in turn led to a vinyl titled ''Brad is Dead'' and a song "The Untimely Death of Brad" (which, oddly enough wasn't on the aforementioned vinyl).

** 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."

* [[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:

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** Also used ''randomly'' in same. There's even a final [BLEEP] several seconds after the music ends.

* [[Step Up to ~~The~~ Microphone]]: Dennis singing lead on "Beautiful America" and "Second Season". Also, Jeff singing "When I Go Out" at a few live shows.

* [[Step Up to the Microphone]]: Dennis singing lead on "Beautiful America" and "Second Season". Also, Jeff singing "When I Go Out" at a few live shows.

* [[Utopia Justifies the Means]]: Skewered in "My Evil Plan to Save the World".

* [[Wizard Needs Food Badly]]: The name of a song from ''The End is Near''; used as a metaphor for the need to do "guy things".