No More Kings is the debut album by Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...

 rock

Rock music

Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...

 band No More Kings

No More Kings

No More Kings are a Los Angeles-based rock band fronted by lead singer Pete Mitchell . No More Kings' music is known for its frequent references to figures in pop culture,...

. It was released March 6, 2007.

The album has produced two singles, "Michael (Jump In)", and the band's biggest hit "Sweep The Leg" that gained much praise for the accompanying music video, which featured many of the stars of the movie The Karate Kid. The video was directed by William Zabka

William Zabka

William Michael "Billy" Zabka is an American actor, screenwriter, director and producer. He is an Academy Award Nominee for Co-Writing and Producing the film, "MOST." Zabka is best known for his villain roles in several iconic 80s films, such as his role of Johnny Lawrence in 1984's The Karate...

 who played Johnny Lawrence in the movie.

In early 2008, the album won in The 7th Annual Independent Music Awards

The Independent Music Awards

The Independent Music Awards is an international program that honors top-ranked independent artists and releases in more than 50 Album, Song, Music Video and Design categories....

 for Best Punk Album.

Track listing

1. "Zombie Me" – 3:29
2. "Sweep The Leg" – 3:17
3. "Michael (Jump In)" – 3:11
4. "Someday" – 2:57
5. "Grand Experiment" – 3:53
6. "Girl In The Sea" – 3:56
7. "Leaving Lilliput" – 4:19
8. "About Schroeder" – 1:58
9. "God Breathed" – 3:49
10. "Mr. B" – 3:21
11. "Old Man Walking" – 1:56
12. "Umbrella" – 4:31
13. "This" – 4:14

Miscellaneous

• Front Man Pete Mitchell has called this album a "Thank you to the 80's"
• The record contains several references to various pop culture items. Subjects include The Karate Kid, Peanuts
  Peanuts
  Peanuts is a syndicated daily and Sunday American comic strip written and illustrated by Charles M. Schulz, which ran from October 2, 1950, to February 13, 2000, continuing in reruns afterward...
  
   comic strip, Knight Rider, and Gulliver's Travels
  Gulliver's Travels
  Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships, better known simply as Gulliver's Travels , is a novel by Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift that is both a satire on human nature and a parody of...
  
  .
• The song Sweep The Leg was featured in the game MLB 08: The Show
  MLB 08: The Show
  MLB 08: The Show is a baseball simulation video game developed by SCE San Diego Studio published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, and PlayStation Portable systems. It the longest-running officially licensed Major League Baseball game series on the PlayStation...
  
  , and subsequently on the May edition of Gamestop
  GameStop
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   TV.

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