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A ska band in the United States. Along with groups such as [[No Doubt]] and [[Sublime]] it is one of the big successes of the Orange County ska scene in [[The Nineties]]. The group began as a standard [[Hard Rock]] trio featuring Aaron Barrett on guitar and vocals, Matt "[[Full-Name Basis|Mattwong]]" Wong on bass and Andrew Gonzales on drums, before going through a fluctuating roster of additional guitarists, singers and - after the fledgling band switched from straightforward rock to [[Ska Punk]] - horn sections. By the time they got around to recording their first album, [[Reel Big Fish]] consisted of Barrett, Wong and Gonzales with Grant Barry and Dan Regan on trombones and Tavis Werts and Scott Klopfenstein on trumpets.
 
This line-up [[One-Hit Wonder|had a hit single]] on the Modern Rock Chart with "Sell Out" and recorded two well-received albums; ''Turn the Radio Off'' and ''Why Do They Rock So Hard?''. However, after the recording of the second album Tavis Werts and Grant Barry were both sacked and Andrew Gonzales decided to leave. For a second time, the band went through several line-up changes, went independent and continued to record and perform live, at which point Matt Wong left to spend more time with his family. In 2011, Scott left much the same way Matt Wong did, and left to spend time with his family.
 
The memberhipmembership appears to have settled for now, with Aaron as the remaining founding member along with Dan, John "Little Johnny Christmas" Christianson on trumpet, Ryland "the Rabbit" Steen on drums, Derek Gibbs on bass guitar and newcomer Matt Appleton (formerly of [[Goldfinger]]) on sax. While not as mainstream as they were ten years ago, they remain very popular and consistently awesome.
 
 
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* "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYMQyp5xMcQ Beer]
 
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=== Tropes ===
* [[Album Title Drop]]: Aaron has stated that he wanted each album to have a song with the same title as the album that preceded it, hence "Everything Sucks" on ''Turn The Radio Off''. It didn't quite work out, although a song called "Turn the Radio Off" shows up three albums later on ''We're Not Happy 'til You're Not Happy''.
* [[Anime Theme Song]]: They did "Rave-o-lution", the opening theme music for the English dub of ''[[Rave Master]]''.