Survivor (fifteen album)
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Survivor is the final album from punk
Punk rock
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 band Fifteen
Fifteen (band)
Fifteen was a punk rock band formed by Jeff Ott. Ott was the group's main songwriter and only consistent member. According to Ott, the band had a total of fifteen members by the time it finally disbanded in 2000: Jack Curran, Mikey Mischief, Mark Moreno, Jean Repetto, Lucky Dog, Chris Flanagan,...

 released in 2000
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. The album is themed around tragedy and picking up the pieces, as can be seen in the title song, "Survivor", which starts out talking about how "America
United States
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 is a place where kids have broken hearts" and describing how member Jeff Ott
Jeff Ott
Jeff Ott is an activist, musician, author, and longtime member of the Berkeley punk community, having fronted such bands as Crimpshrine, and Fifteen.-Partial history:...

 became a homeless drug addict at the age of 14, but turns around to become a hopeful message about how Ott turned his life around and you can too.

Track listing

  1. "Greed"
  2. "Survivor"
  3. "Colorado"
  4. "Vanessa"
  5. "Landlord"
  6. "Punk Song"
  7. "Brian's Song"
  8. "FBI"
  9. "Child"
  10. "Grace"
  11. "Prostitute"
  12. "Saturn Return"
  13. "The Lost Generation"
  14. "A Message to Mumia" (spoken by Assata Shakur
    Assata Shakur
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    )
  15. Untitled (hidden track)
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