Win The Battle is the 12th studio album by Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 punk rock

Punk rock

Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...

 band D.O.A.

D.O.A. (band)

D.O.A. is a hardcore punk band from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. They are often referred to as the "founders" of hardcore punk, along with Black Flag, Bad Brains, Teen Idles, and Minor Threat. Their second album Hardcore '81 was thought by many to have been the first actual reference to...

. The Slogan on the back cover (Talk - Action = 0) will later be used as the title for their 2010 release.
All songs are written by Joe Keithley except where noted.

The album is dedicated to the memory of Ginger Goodwin (early BC labour organizer) and to Dimwit. Dimwit was Chuck Biscuits

Chuck Biscuits

Chuck Biscuits is a Canadian-born drummer, now a U.S. citizen, who is best known as an original member of the heavy metal/hard rock band Danzig. Most recently, he was a member of the punk rock band Social Distortion in the late 1990s...

's brother and was in The Skulls together with Joe Keithley

Joe Keithley

Joey "Shithead" Keithley is a punk musician with the band D.O.A.. He was raised in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, and attended Burnaby North Secondary. At age 11, he began playing drums. He would later take up the guitar and vocals. He owns and operates his own record company, Sudden Death...

. The last song on the album is about Dimwit and how he died.

Track listing

All songs written by Joey Shithead, except where noted.

1. Dead Men Tell No Tales
2. We're Drivin' to Hell N' Back
3. Just Say No to the WTO
4. If I Were a Redneck
5. All Across The U.S.A. Featuring Bif Naked
   Bif Naked
   Bif Naked is a Juno Award-winning, Indian-born American-Canadian multi-platinum record selling, rock singer, writer, poet, motivational speaker and actress.-Personal life:...
   
    (LP only)
6. I Am Canadian
7. Warmonger
8. The Beer Liberation Army
9. La Grange (ZZ Top)
10. Fuck You w/ the Blues (Gerry Hannah)
11. Curbstomp the Devil
12. Mexican Holiday
13. Return to Lumberjack City
14. Junk City Nowhere (Vancouver)

The band

• The Great Baldini – drums
  Drum kit
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• Randy Rampage
  Randy Rampage
  Randy Rampage is a founding member, bass player and occasional vocalist of the Canadian hardcore band D.O.A.. He played on D.O.A.'s seminal early punk albums Something Better Change and Hardcore '81, along with vocalist/guitarist Joe Shithead, drummer Chuck Biscuits and guitarist Dave Gregg in...
  
   – Bass
  Bass guitar
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• Joey Shithead - guitar
  Guitar
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  , vocals
  Singing
  Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
  
  

Additional musicians

• Bif Naked
  Bif Naked
  Bif Naked is a Juno Award-winning, Indian-born American-Canadian multi-platinum record selling, rock singer, writer, poet, motivational speaker and actress.-Personal life:...
  
   on All Across The U.S.A.
• Billy Hopeless - vocals
• Michael Rowe - vocals
• Jason Overy percussion
• Shiloh Lindsay - vocals