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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.

[[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

Major releases:

* ''Upbeats and Beatdowns'' (1996)

* ''Our Newest Album Ever!'' (1997)

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Compare and contrast with their side project, [[Brave Saint Saturn]].

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~~=== Trope articles~~ with FIF song lyrics as page quotes: ~~===~~

* [[Celebrity Is Overrated]]

* [[Cool Old Guy]]

* [[Dancin' in the Ruins]]

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

* [[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.