Highly Refined Pirates is Minus the Bear's debut full-length album, released on November 19, 2002, by Suicide Squeeze Records.

Highly Refined Pirates
Studio album by
ReleasedNovember 19, 2002
Recorded2002 at Studio Litho
GenreIndie rock, math rock
Length42:25
LabelSuicide Squeeze Records
ProducerSteve Fisk
Minus the Bear chronology
Bands Like It When You Yell "Yar!" at Them
(2001)
Highly Refined Pirates
(2002)
They Make Beer Commercials Like This
(2004)
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Track listing edit

No.TitleLength
1."Thanks for the Killer Game of Crisco® Twister"3:35
2."Monkey!!! Knife!!! Fight!!!"3:32
3."Absinthe Party at the Fly Honey Warehouse"5:23
4."Hey, Wanna Throw Up?"3:49
5."Get Me Naked 2: Electric Boogaloo"4:09
6."We Are Not a Football Team"3:02
7."You Kill Bugs Good, Man"1:10
8."Spritz!!! Spritz!!!"3:03
9."Women We Haven't Met Yet"4:04
10."Damn Bugs Whacked Him, Johnny"0:47
11."I Lost All My Money at the Cock Fights"4:54
12."Andy Wolff"2:08
13."Let's Play Guitar in a Five Guitar Band"5:11
14."Booyah Achieved"0:50
UK edition bonus tracks
No.TitleLength
15."You're Some Sort of Big, Fat, Smart-Bug, Aren't You?"1:08
16."Drop It Like It's Hot"2:41

Personnel edit

Additional personnel edit

  • Produced and Engineered by Steve Fisk
  • Mixed by Steve Fisk and Troy Tietjen, except 4, 7, 10, 12, and 14 mixed by Matt Bayles
  • Mastered by Ed Brooks
  • Additional vocals by Amy Blaschke on "Get Me Naked 2: Electric Boogaloo"

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