History Music / FiveIronFrenzy

* CanadaEh: "Oh Canada". Before playing the song at shows, Reese would refer to Canada as "a mystical, far-off land" or "part of Minnesota".

* Leanor "Jeff [[TheChick the Girl]]" Ortega-Till: saxophone

* WereStillRelevantDammit: "Battle Dancing Unicorns with Glitter" makes a tongue-in-cheek case for this, with a strong dose of TotallyRadical along the way.

* {{Geek}}[=/=]{{Nerd}}: "Suckerpunch" is about a "pencil-necked geek" getting picked on in middle school. "You Can't Handle This" is from the perspective of someone bragging about his geek-fu. [[WildMassGuessing It's possible both songs are about the same person.]]

* GayAesop: "Fahrenheit". It does have some UnfortunateImplications, such as defending the "love the sinner, hate the sin" line, but was pretty FairForItsDay, especially for ChristianRock in 2000. Reese Roeper would later apologize for not seeing that there was still some internalized homophobia in him when he wrote that song, and a later song "While Supplies Last" has a line criticizing the Evangelical Right for blaming their problems on the Queer community when in fact, those problems come from them.

* KungFuJesus: "Zen and the Art of Xenophobia", a brutally sarcastic jab at the American habit of mixing the Christian faith with blind patriotism, contains the line, "Lock and load just like Jesus did!" This is taken UpToEleven in the music video, in which a school play is hijacked by ultra-violent versions of Jesus, Abraham Lincoln, etc.

* OldMediaAreEvil: "Anchors Away" takes aim at TV news, accusing them of eschewing accurate reporting in favor of [[YouCanPanicNow fear-mongering]].

* Keith Hoerig: bass
* Scott Kerr: rhythm guitar (departed in 1998, rejoined when the band reunited in 2011)

* DownerEnding: "Eulogy" from ''Electric Boogaloo''. ''Holy crap.''

'''Five Iron Frenzy''' is an eight-piece rock band from Denver, Colorado, that formed in 1995. Initially they played straightforward ska-punk, though the albums after their first saw them mix this with a more mainstream rock sound (or, on ''All The Hype That Money Can Buy'' playing GenreRoulette) while keeping the horn section. On their 2001 album ''Five Iron Frenzy 2: [[OddlyNamedSequel2ElectricBoogaloo Electric Boogaloo]]'', they again rebranded themselves with a harder, heavy metal-influenced sound (while ''still'' keeping the horn section), and kept this style for the remainder of their career. (They continued playing their old songs at live shows, but in the style of their new songs.) In January 2003, they announced that the time had come to move on with their lives and call it quits before they could start hating each other. They recorded one more proper studio album, went on a nationwide farewell tour, and played their final show before a capacity crowd at the Fillmore Stadium in Denver.

** When put together, [[Creator/RayBradbury "Fahrenheit" and "Four Fifty-One"]] also qualify.

->Five Iron Frenzy\\
They were good, They were good, They were really really really good!\\
Five Iron Frenzy\\
When you see them, we really really think you should\\
Thank them for being so cool and so awesome\\
Yeah, thank them for being so neat-o
-->--'''Music/RelientK''' "Five Iron Frenzy Is Either Dead Or Dying"

-->--'''Relient K''' "Five Iron Frenzy Is Either Dead Or Dying"

Any rumors of a reunion were almost certainly lies... at least until on November 22nd, 2011, eight years exactly after their final show, the band announced that they were reuniting to record a whole new album, funded by a Kickstarter project, which reached the $30,000 goal ''in less than an hour'', then ''doubled.'' Then ''tripled.'' Ad Nauseam and Five Iron Frenzy became the highest funded musical Kickstarter project up to that time[[note]]An Amanda Palmer project later surpassed them[[/note]], raising more than $207k before the Kickstarter drive ended.

Also, four of their cd's (''Our Newest Album Ever'', ''Quantity is Job 1'', ''Proof that the Youth are Revolting'', and ''The End is [[strike:Near]] Here'') featured some awesomely surreal original artwork by DougTenNapel.

Compare and contrast with their side project, BraveSaintSaturn.

'''Five Iron Frenzy''' is an eight-piece rock band from Denver, Colorado, that formed in 1995. Initially they played straightforward ska-punk, though the albums after their first saw them mix this with a more mainstream rock sound (or, on ''All The Hype That Money Can Buy'' playing GenreRoulette) while keeping the horn section. On their 2001 album ''Five Iron Frenzy 2: ElectricBoogaloo'', they again rebranded themselves with a harder, heavy metal-influenced sound (while ''still'' keeping the horn section), and kept this style for the remainder of their career. (They continued playing their old songs at live shows, but in the style of their new songs.) In January 2003, they announced that the time had come to move on with their lives and call it quits before they could start hating each other. They recorded one more proper studio album, went on a nationwide farewell tour, and played their final show before a capacity crowd at the Fillmore Stadium in Denver.

* ''Five Iron Frenzy 2: ElectricBoogaloo'' (2001)

* ElectricBoogaloo: The actual title of their fifth studio album.

FIF's birth coincided with the late-90s' simultaneous punk-rock boom and Third Wave of ska. While they didn't exactly ride the wave to outrageous fame and fortune (their greatest publicity was when their song "Oh Canada" was played on ''BostonLegal''... two years after they broke up), they did gain a respectable cult following in both the punk scene and the Christian rock scene.

** When put together, [[RayBradbury "Fahrenheit" and "Four Fifty-One"]] also qualify.

Five Iron Frenzy is an eight-piece rock band from Denver, Colorado, that formed in 1995. Initially they played straightforward ska-punk, though the albums after their first saw them mix this with a more mainstream rock sound (or, on ''All The Hype That Money Can Buy'' playing GenreRoulette) while keeping the horn section. On their 2001 album ''Five Iron Frenzy 2: ElectricBoogaloo'', they again rebranded themselves with a harder, heavy metal-influenced sound (while ''still'' keeping the horn section), and kept this style for the remainder of their career. (They continued playing their old songs at live shows, but in the style of their new songs.) In January 2003, they announced that the time had come to move on with their lives and call it quits before they could start hating each other. They recorded one more proper studio album, went on a nationwide farewell tour, and played their final show before a capacity crowd at the Fillmore Stadium in Denver.

Any rumors of a reunion are almost certainly lies... at least until on November 22nd, 2011, eight years exactly after their final show, the band announced that they were reuniting to record a whole new album, funded by a Kickstarter project, which reached the $30,000 goal ''in less than an hour'', then ''doubled.'' Then ''tripled.'' Ad Nauseam and Five Iron Frenzy became the highest funded musical Kickstarter project up to that time[[note]]An Amanda Palmer project later surpassed them[[/note]], raising more than $207k before the Kickstarter drive ended.

Yes, Five Iron Frenzy was [[ChristianRock a Christian band]], and a good one. Their lyrics were frequently satirical (and rarely preachy), and skewered society at large, Christian hypocrisy, the punk rock scene, and their own selves with equal aplomb.

* Scott Kerr: rhythm guitar (departed in 1998)

* ''The End is [[strike:Near]] Here'' (2003, 2004) "Near" was the band's final studio album. "Here" was a [[LimitedSpecialCollectorsUltimateEdition rerelease]] with an extra studio track, and a second disc containing their entire final live show.

** Even the last song of their last studio album, "On Distant Shores" on "The End Is Near," ends with the final coda of "Every New Day." This is subverted in their last album, "The End is Here," of which the first CD is a reissue of "The End Is Near" with an extra song at the end... only to be played with on the second CD, a recording of their final concert, in which the last track is "Every New Day," but it isn't quite the last song in the album.

Trivia.FiveIronFrenzy

* CreatorBacklash: "Combat Chuck", from the first album, was catchier than it had any right to be, but nothing special. FIF got so sick of playing it that they swore it off altogether -- though they did incorporate it into the "Medley of Power Ballads and Bad Taste" that they played on their farewell tour.
** ''How The Story Ends'' has it that Combat Chuck's dying wish was that they never play his song ever again.
* DepravedHomosexual: Reese admits in Fahrenheit that he used to think of [[{{Queen}} Freddie Mercury]] this way. The song is basically about him confronting his own homophobia.