This document provides a tracklist and descriptions for the best songs by the punk band Spanky Revolution. It summarizes their history starting in 2006 and highlights some of their most popular and impactful songs over multiple albums from 2008 to 2011. Key events include forming the band, adding John as a member in 2008, releasing their first two albums on a "shitty label," creating their own label in 2009, and going on to release multiple successful albums and EPs. It provides context and background for 16 of their songs that showcase their evolution and importance to fans.

1.
SPANKY REVOLUTION
BEST OF
1. Lips Like Cancer
2. Anthem
3. Sleepless
4. Saint-Rédempteur (Kicks Asses)
5. Riot
6. Blasting Off the Sun
7. Prove ‘Em Wrong
8. She Won’t Smile
9. Loverdose
10. Tout Doit Brûler (En collaboration avec Spectre)
11. Chromatic Milkshake
12. Here Comes the Revolution
13. I Hope You Were Thinking About Me
When You Forgot Your Seatbelt and Crossed
the Windshield
14. Snowstorm
15. Crossing Oceans
16. Snow On Manhattan (Never Drop My Hands)

2. Spanky Revolution started in 2006 with Étienne, Éric and Steve.
Three boys wanted to make music and dreamt of conquering the world.
They had the guts, the energy, the fierce, the charisma but they were
missing an important piece. In 2008, in a crazy show at the Vana’s,
the band gave the best of what they were made of in a setlist that
would include the eventual classic “Snowstorm”. Few mosh pits and
instruments smash later, the band Weedz came on stage, led by the
amazing John. After Weedz would collapse few months later, Spanky
Revolution decided to ask John to come and join them in studio for a
guest appearance. It was supposed to be quick, an affair of one day or
two in studio, but the chemistry was too great. The puzzle was solved:
the missing piece was called John, played guitar like his life depended
on it and just finished detox. While in the middle of financial problems
with their shitty label, Spanky Revolution would release two albums
with material that was recorded before John was in the band. In
November 2009 though, the band decided to slam the door of their
label and create, with Leoshi, Cookies & Biscuits Records. The band
would soon release the experimental “Tonight Is the Night”, originally
a solo project by Étienne, before releasing their first real official album
“Racing the Sunset”. Music videos and North American touring would
start after what, the band hit back with “We Won’t Die”, which
launched Spanky Revolution in the punk-o-matic stratosphere. “You
Won’t Know”, an EP recorded in the same process that “Tonight Is the
Night” was released shortly after and got a great reception from the
public. In June 2011, Spanky Revolution gives their fan “Poneycore”
with warm critic reception. The public was also very enthusiastic and
helped the band to play the best show on this fucking Earth.
Now here we are. 4 music videos, 6 long play albums, one EP,
four singles, one label founded and administrated by the band only
and over 80 unique songs. We cannot count though the amount of
exploded amps, smashed guitars, destroyed drum kits, days sleeping
in a van, nights spent partying with our friends and fans, the amount
of mosh pits, circle pits, body surfers, fists in the air, and the amount
of great memories. We are living the best life possible and it’s all
because of you. We love you and always will. Cheers!
Étienne, Éric, Steve and John

3. Track descriptions
1. Lips Like Cancer
Album Exclusive
Lips Like Cancer is one of those tracks where things get together so
easily. We worked a lot on it but still, it all felt so natural. The song is
more smooth and mature than our precedent work, but it’s one fucking
great piece of music! We wanted our next LP to sound like this song
but we simply can’t. This track is unique and deserves a spot here for
sure.
2. Anthem
Album: We Won’t Die
Anthem is Spanky Revolution. If some guy asks you how we sound,
make him listen to Anthem. This is when the crowd goes crazy. This is
when the body surf begins. And God knows Éric likes to play its bass
solo. Have fun in its hooks and double rhythm parts!
3. Sleepless
Album: SnR
Back when we recorded this in a garage for SnR in 2008, little we
knew about the world. We were three, young guys making short punk
music. The song was released a year later in August 2009 and became
an instant success. It became our first song to chart in the Pomboard
top 40. It also appeared in the cult compilation “No Sunrise for the
Punk-o-Maddicted” made by Leoshi.
4. Saint-Rédempteur (Kicks Asses)
Album: Tonight Is the Night
In holydays 2009-10, Spanky Revolution was pretty much on hold with

4. the new label to take care of and all the other things we had to work
on. Even though this, Étienne started to work on a solo project, which
would soon take the shape of an experimental LP. As Étienne was
ready to record, his three mates decided to come in studio to help him
out and record instruments. Even if Étienne wrote all instruments, he
decided with the rest of the band to simply call the album a Spanky
Revolution release, especially since it would be the first official album
with John playing instruments. Just like for the songs of the “You
Won’t Know” EP, the songs on “Tonight Is the Night” have a very
distinct sound compared to what the band gives on their other album.
Saint-Rédempteur is a simple song: one guitar, one bass and a
constant energetic drumbeat. It was quickly indentified as a highlight
of the album and a crowd favorite.
5. Riot
Album: We Won’t Die
Riot was one of the first new songs to be played after “Racing the
Sunset” was released and the tone was set for a new album. This
song is about giving all you got, which is Spanky Revolution’s motto.
Sometimes, you just need to let your problems behind and just dance
and not give a shit about the rest. It’s an A+ song for mosh pits.
Believe us, we’ve seen it. The music video for this song tied in second
place for “Best Music Video of the Year” at the second C&BR Awards.
6. Blasting Off the Sun
Album: Racing the Sunset
Between January and November 2009, we recorded a lot of songs
with John while with our shitty label, but only two of them were
actually good enough for us to be on “Racing the Sunset”. Blasting Off
the Sun is one of them. It’s the #1 summer song. It’s ska, quite simple
but it was a real hit. It won’t give us big mosh pits but we know from
the screams that start right as Étienne starts his beats on toms that
it’s a success.

5. 7. Prove ‘Em Wrong
Album: We Won’t Die
John was just jamming with his guitar during breaks in studio when
he came out with the opening riff. Soon enough, the whole band was
pumped enough to write a song about it. Even Steve decided to join
John in one of the most memorable double lead bridge of the band.
We gave this song to all the bands, somewhere, who are giving all
they have inside to get known and to live from their art. All four of us
have different stories but we all, one day, had people telling us we
were shit and we would never do anything good. Hundreds of shows
later, we prove them how fucking wrong they were.
8. She Won’t Smile
Album: Tonight Is the Night
There are not a lot of songs like She Won’t Smile in our discography.
The synths, the violin and the heavy bass drum make this song one of
our most memorable efforts. When “Tonight Is the Night” came out,
everyone agreed that this song was one of the highlights, and it got
nominated as “Best Song of the Year” at the very first C&BR Awards.
This song was written as a sad song, the story of a girl that used to be
so nice and all with a boy but all of a sudden, she starts to treat him
like shit. The girl is not happy, neither is the boy. And all the boy has
left is the memory of a girl that once was smiling at him.
9. Loverdose
Album: Poneycore
Loverdose is the definition of blast. It’s so right in your face it makes
no sense. The song is short but delivers like no other on the setlist.
We recorded a music video for it, which included live footage of a
show at the Vana’s. It was fucking hot inside and everyone was drunk
or high except for us (we never get drunk until the show is over). This
is pure “balls-off-the-wall” rock and roll music. Enjoy!

6. 10. Tout Doit Brûler (En Collaboration avec Spectre)
Album: We Won’t Die
Spectre is the manager of the band “Pay the Price”, a band with which
we had the chance to tour with a couple of times. Those guys are
really amazing and talented members and really easy to work with.
Soooooo, we were working on the song and taught it would be great
to have a featured artist in it, for the bridge. Spectre was our very
first choice. He really got the trick to catch the spirit of a song, so his
part (and the amazing bass solo) feels so very natural when you
listen to it. The song got nominated for “Best Collab Song” at the 2Nd
C&BR Awards and had a sequel on Poneycore called “Tout Droit Vers
la Mort”. The song is also very light with its ska-oriented verses and
its great catchy choruses.
11. Chromatic Milkshake
Album: Racing the Sunset
“Chromatic Milkshake” was our second music video, after “Saturday
Night’s Game” that features NHL footage. For this song, we decided to
do it big with a “one shot” video where the members of the band
would move around and swap place without the viewer to see them
moving. To achieve such an effect, we had to take a ridiculous amount
of takes and to make two edited copies of the videos, one of them
was to make zooms over the zooms already done to hide the trick
correctly. It took over 60 hours of shooting and editing. Add to this the
make-up, the costumes, the set-up… this was one freaking
complicated video but in the end, the final result is stunning and was
nominated for “Best Music Video” at the 2nd C&BR Awards. And of
course, the song is really amazing too! We worked a whole lot on this
song and made about three totally different versions to achieve it. The
song became a crowd favorite almost immediately after the release of
“Racing the Sunset” and it felt really good to see that all these efforts
were not done in vain.

7.
12. Here Comes the Revolution
Album: Here Comes the Revolution
Our second album, “Here Comes the Revolution”, was recorded with
Éric on guitar and without John, just like SnR. The album was not bad,
it was actually a really great album, but since we wanted to showcase
more work with our four band mates, we decided to only have one
song from this LP on the Best of. There were a lot of great tracks on it:
“Anarchy and Chaos”, “L.EMO.Nade Under the Stars” and “Kicking
Myself in the Nuts” to name only those. But the title track of the
album is just too mesmerizing to leave it behind. This song might be
the most powerful opener we have ever written and features two
tracks in one. At a time where all songs were supposed to be 2:01
long or less, “Here Comes the Revolution” clocks at 3:36 and features
four guitar tracks as well as two drums tracks. This song is our most
praised song from what we call the “POM1” era and is part of our set
list for every show we make; We often have a fourth guitarist to fill in
the blank as Éric, Steve and John play guitar. This song drives like no
other and is stuck deep in our hearts.
13. I Hope You Were Thinking About Me When You Forgot
Your Seatbelt and Crossed the Windshield
Album: We Won’t Die
SnR had “As Your Face Gets Through the Windshield”, Tonight Is the
Night had “The Feeling of my Face Kissing the Windshield on High
Speed” and Poneycore had this track. All these album-closing songs
are part of a series of experimental progressive pieces that mixes
smooth and rushing alternative music. The Poneycore one though has
something more than what the others have. The progression in it is
really great and leaves room for a blasting bridge in the middle that
soon made it the most popular song on the album after “Loverdose”.
It’s a song that grows into you the more you listen to it, so take your
time.

8. 14. Snowstorm
Album: SnR
If you don’t mind, this description will be longer than the others.
Snowstorm is the song that made us get here. We composed and
recorded that song in Étienne’s basement on a June 24th, the national
day for Québec. We just happened to have a good riff to start the song
with and the rest felt together really well. The name comes from the
fact snowstorms are frequent in winter in Québec and because the
drum roll-leaded bridge reminded us of a snowstorm. We played the
song for the first time during summer at the Vana’s and the crowd
immediately went wild on it. Things were going so well that we
decided to self-release a demo EP, including this song, a demo of
“Earth Despair’s Message”, “Welcome to Heaven” and of “Bullet in
my Chest” that appeared on SnR. This is the demo that got us signed
on a shitty label, which we don’t even want to name but hey, we were
young and we wanted to be heard. This is the song that made the EP
get some sales as the song got some airplay in University radios. This
is how we got able to make the first part of John’s then band
“Weedz” in a sold-out show at the re-opening of the Vana’s after they
made some renovation in order to make it bigger and therefore, have
more people to come to their shows. The crowd was crazy and already
hard on booze, so we took advantage of this and played as loud as
we could. At the end of our performance, when Steve started the first
notes of Snowstorm, things got just wild. There were people stage
diving everywhere, screaming, moshing and body surfing. We added
an extended bridge with hard, fast solos and by the end of the song,
we destroyed each and every one of our instruments. The directors of
the Vana’s were unhappy of us at first but later, they had to admit it
was one of the most memorable nights they had. Of course, the crowd
was fucking pumped and ready for Weedz, in what would be one of
their very last show. After the show, we met the guys and they told us
how they were impressed and how they taught we were crazy. It then
became easy to communicate with John to get him to work with us on
“It’s All About to Smile” and eventually, to have him in the band.

9. 15. Crossing Oceans (radio edit)
Album: You Won’t Know (EP)
“You Won’t Know” is somewhat of a side project we had between
summer 2010 and April 2011. We wanted to make a kind of sequel to
“Tonight Is the Night”, but it soon became clear we could not release
a full length-LP out of it without making compromises on our other
releases, so we made an EP instead. Crossing Oceans is chaos. It’s a
mess. But it’s controlled mess. You listen to it and you simply don’t
understand it but somehow, it still makes sense. The song is catchy
and presents a really cool outro, followed by a glitch-influenced finale,
thanks to Cognition Vault, which we were listening to when making
the record.
16. Snow On Manhattan (Never Drop my Hand)
Album: We Won’t Die
Snow on Manhattan is not just a ballad. It’s our best ballad. It’s a
smooth song to listen on a cold winter night. The song is just about
this moment. The one frozen in time where you walk with your loved
one under the snow. It can be an afternoon when both the sky and the
sidewalk are white, or late at night when the sky is pitch black but
you have all those colorful Christmas decorations. The song was a
change in the sound compared to what we wrote before but it still is a
classic. It’s the perfect closer song before we tell you bye-bye.

10.
CREDITS:
All songs made with the punk-o-matic 2 except for
-Tracks 3, 12 and 14, made with Punk-o-matic
-Tracks 4, 8 and 15, made with Fruity Loops Studios 9
Punk-o-matic and Punk-o-matic 2 are the creation of Evil-Dog / Marco Arsenault.
Musicians:
Étienne: Drums, handclaps on 15, synths on 8 and glitches on 15.
Éric: Guitar(s) on 3, 12 and 14, bass on all other tracks.
Steve: Guitar(s) on all tracks but 4.
John: Guitar on all tracks but 3, 12 and 14.
Jenna “The Brunette”: synths on 8 and 15, piano on 15.
Pay the Price (Carter Wright (Drums), Devon Durand (Guitar), Rob Ramirez
(Guitar) and Alex Galiarti (Bass)): Bridge in 10
• All songs composed by Spanky Revolution between 2008 and 2011
• Track 10 composed by Spanky Revolution and Spectre from Pay the
Price in Fall 2010
• All tracks recorded at Cookies Basements except for tracks 3, 4, 12,
14 and 15 recorded at Étienne’s basements and tracks 6 and 11
recorded at Nocturnal Media Studios
• All songs mixed by Spanky Revolution except for tracks 6 and 11,
mixed by Downfall-RiD at Nocturnal Media Studios and track 12,
mixed by Spanky Revolution and Leoshi
• All songs produced by Spanky Revolution
• Cover art concept and album note by Spanky Revolution
• Cover art production and album note’s design by Éric
• All photos by The Brunette
• Fleur de Lys photo by Trace of Hatred, SPANKY sign by
TheGhostOfRickJames
Our label: www.cookies-biscuits.weebly.com
Our website: www.spankyrevolution.webs.com
Our website for non-pom projects: www.spankyrevolution.weebly.com
Punk-o-matic’s official website: www.punk-o-matic.net
The Corner: www.pomcorner.weebly.com/spanky-revolution2.html

11. THANKS TO:
You, the fans. It might be cliché, but you are the reason we’ve made it
this far. We love you!
Thanks to Marco Arsenault AKA Evil Dog for creating the Punk-o-matic
1 and 2. Thanks to Leoshi to start Cookies & Biscuits Records with us.
Thanks to Sid for garage time when we needed it back in the first
days. Thanks to the Vana’s for all these years of amazing shows: you
know we will keep coming back. Thanks to Raptor, Jellyfish and Jack-
strap for all the great years of “Weedz”.
Thanks to Vc2, Marco109, Warlost, Madmatt09, Spectre and his band
Pay the Price, Trace of Hatred and his band Suicide by Spoon,
Superkowz and his band “Dudes with Grey Pants”, Nocturne and his
band “Into Avoca”, Zenester and his band “Hello Sunrise”, Burger
and his band “Giant O’ Mine” and The Ghost Of Rick James with his
band “1st Assault” for getting your touch on one song or another
somewhere in one of our albums. Thanks to Rokkross and Blackstatic
for their experience and their help on Fruity Loops Studios 9. Thanks to
Jod.Drummer for his cover arts as well as everyone who helped to get
all the covers on RTS (we’ve named you all already!).
Thanks to everyone who helped us during the last years to improve
ourselves, including White Divinity, Saiga/Warning Shot, Pom Pom’s,
Necromancer, Keane, LotWPro, Rofl Monster/ReVision,
DecyferIt/ScaleTheSummit, AgentOhoolahan, Bishop Butters, God,
MuFFinZ, 101, Thirdboy, ZenixA, Icklejabob, Kyoufuu, Cyros Lugoth
and all the others. Thanks to Poe as well, even if we had hard times
and numerous fights, we still love you.
Thanks to our loves, friends and families. Thanks to all the bands
we’ve played with, all the bands that influenced us, our groupies, the
booze, the parties and everyone who helped us coming back home.

12.
WE LOVE YOU!
We Really do!
Étienne, Éric, Steve and John