Mediocre Generica is the debut album by the American

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 punk band Leftöver Crack

Leftöver Crack

Leftöver Crack is an American punk rock band formed in 1998, following the breakup of the ska punk band Choking Victim. Primarily playing an amalgam of ska and hardcore punk, they classify themselves as "crack-rocksteady". The band is currently signed to Fat Wreck Chords for CD releases, and...

. It was released on September 11, 2001 and includes much sociopolitical commentary, including anti-police

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 sentiment, anti-racism

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 and anti-homophobia

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. The album was originally intended to be titled Shoot the Kids at School, which Hellcat Records

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 objected to. http://www.punknews.org/bands/leftovercrack As Stza

Stza

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 said in an interview, "They wanted mediocre generic artwork and they wanted a mediocre generic title, so I called it Mediocre Generica and I guarantee you the irony was lost on Epitaph

Epitaph Records

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." This has been cited as one of the main reasons that Leftöver Crack

Leftöver Crack

Leftöver Crack is an American punk rock band formed in 1998, following the breakup of the ska punk band Choking Victim. Primarily playing an amalgam of ska and hardcore punk, they classify themselves as "crack-rocksteady". The band is currently signed to Fat Wreck Chords for CD releases, and...

 made the move to the much smaller label Alternative Tentacles

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. The album was coincidentally released on the same day as the September 11 terrorist attacks, and during the introduction on the bands next release, Fuck World Trade

Fuck World Trade

Fuck World Trade is an album by American punk band Leftöver Crack, released in 2004 on the Alternative Tentacles label.The album continues the band's self-defined status as anti-racist, anti-misogynist, anti-capitalist, and anarcho-communist. It also contains references to the fact that their first...

, this album is referred to as "the tower-toppling Mediocre Generica."

Track listing

1. "Homeo-Apathy" – 2:22
2. "Nazi White Trash" – 3:00
3. "Atheist Anthem" – 3:18
4. "The Good, the Bad & the Leftöver Crack" – 2:29
5. "Gay Rude Boys Unite" – 2:39
6. "N.C." – 0:59
7. "Interlude" – 1:25
8. "Stop the Insanity" – 3:00
9. "Crack City Rockers" – 2:31
10. "Burning in Water" – 2:05
11. "With the Sickness" – 1:11
12. "Born to Die" – 4:40
13. "Gay Rude Boys Unite [Instrumental]" AKA "Rock Steady Beat" – 3:12