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Hold Your Country is the fourth studio album by American rock band Bulla, released in September 2004. The title is taken from the lyrics of the song "Fifty Shades of Grey". This is the second studio album, since Swimming with the Sharks, without the guitarist Bill Lawrence, and the first being recorded as a quartet.

Album
All lyrics written by John Langley, unless where noted.

0. Untitled - 1:35
 * 1) "Made in Taiwan" (music by Langley and Mike Sullivan) - 7:22
 * 2) "Buenos Aires" (music by Jim Arnold and Stanley Miller) - 4:36
 * 3) "Blow" (music by Arnold) - 5:24
 * 4) "Fifty Shades of Grey" (lyrics co-written by Stanley Miller; music by Arnold, Miller and Sullivan) - 8:36
 * 5) "Gun" (music by Arnold and Lawrence) - 5:03
 * 6) Interlude - 0:21
 * 7) "Helicopters on the Skies" (music by Miller) - 8:32
 * 8) "Bodies" (music by Arnold, Lawrence and Miller) - 3:56
 * 9) "Keep It Dark" (music by Lawrence and Miller) - 6:52
 * 10) "Blame It on the Rain" (music by Arnold, Lawrence, Miller and Sullivan) - 5:00
 * 11) "Wrong Moment, Right Place" (music by Arnold and Miller) - 5:42
 * 12) "Volcano World" (lyrics co-written by Sullivan; music by Arnold, Langley, Lawrence and Miller) - 3:32
 * 13) "All by Myself" (lyrics co-written and music by Sullivan) - 2:58
 * 14) "Double Team" (written by Jack Black and Kyle Gass) - 3:08


 * Outtakes


 * "Burn" (music by Langley)
 * "Evil Inside" (music by Sullivan)
 * "Halfway" ("Wrong Moment" working title)
 * "High Noon" (lyrics and music by Arnold and Langley)
 * "Not a Victim Anymore" (lyrics and music by Sullivan)
 * "Sometimes" (music by Lawrence)

DVD

 * "Making of Hold Your Country" (documentary)
 * Red Rocks concert (May 22, 2004, except (*) recorded in May 23)
 * "Blame it on the Rain"
 * "Bad Company"
 * "Mad World"
 * "Animal Kingdom"
 * "Misery, Inc." (early version)
 * "Suit"
 * "Big Time"
 * "Spiders"
 * "Blow" (*)
 * "I Can't Explain"
 * "Big Devil"
 * "Sandbox"
 * "Volcano World"
 * "Insignificant Man"
 * "Bidding"
 * "Bodies"
 * "Sofasleeping"
 * "Sailor Moon"
 * "Gun"
 * "Double Team"

Special features:
 * Extra Vancouver concert
 * "Fifty Shades of Grey"
 * "Go"
 * "Made in Taiwan"
 * "Here"
 * "Bodies"
 * "Keep It Dark"
 * Low-budget videos
 * Music videos
 * "Suit"
 * "Animal Kingdom"
 * "Big Time"
 * "Volcano World"
 * "Bodies"
 * Studio recording sessions

Personnel

 * Bulla
 * Gucci - drums, percussion, cuíca on "Blame it on the Rain", tubular bells on "Fifty Shades of Grey", steel drum (on "Sometimes"), backing vocals (2, 4, 5, 7, 10, 13, "Burn", "Not a Victim Anymore", "Sometimes" and "Stupid Girl")
 * John Langley - bass, fuzz pedal (on "Made in Taiwan" and "Evil Inside"), overdrive pedal (on "Blow") , modular synth on "Gun", distortion pedal (on "Helicopters on the Skies" and "Stupid Girl") , organ and piano plucking on "Volcano World", additional effects, trumpet on "Wrong Moment, Right Place", backing vocals (2, 3, 5, 9, 10, 12, 14, "Burn", "Evil Inside", "Sometimes", "Splash" and "Stupid Girl")
 * Doug Lawrence - lead and rhythm guitar, clavinet and talkbox on "Blame it on the Rain", sound effects on "Fifty Shades of Grey" and "Volcano World", bongos on "All by Myself", backing vocals (2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and "Splash")
 * Stanley Miller - lead (backing on "All by Myself", "Double Team", "High Noon" and "Stupid Girl") vocals (all except interlude, "Wrong Moment, Right Place", "All by Myself", "Double Team", "High Noon", "Not a Victim Anymore" and "Stupid Girl"), rhythm and lead guitar
 * Mike Sullivan - lead vocals (on "Wrong Moment, Right Place", "All by Myself", "Double Team", "High Noon" and "Not a Victim Anymore"), keyboards, electric guitar (on "Volcano World", "All by Myself" and "Double Team") , MPC2000 sampler, Rhodes piano (on "Made in Taiwan", "Fifty Shades of Grey", "Bodies", "All by Myself", "Burn", "High Noon" and "Sometimes") , harmonium (on "Gun" and "Evil Ibside") , programming, vocoder on "Made in Taiwan", sound effects and strings arrangement on "Fifty Shades of Grey"


 * Equipments
 * Gucci: Pearl drum kit and Vic Firth drumsticks
 * John Langley:
 * Basses: Fender Jazz, Ibanez and MusicMan
 * Pedals: Behringer Bod400, Boss Od-30 and MXR Fuzz Bass Deluxe
 * Doug Lawrence:
 * Guitars: Fender (Jaguar PF TPL and Olympic White, Squier Standard Telecaster Vintage Blonde and Stratocaster Mn Tidepool), Fernandes (1986 Craig Goldt) and Gibson Les Paul (Classic and Custom Red Wine)
 * Pedals: Dunlop Crybaby Wah Wah, Fuhrmann Lead Drive, Ibanez Tube Screamer and Mooler Green Mile
 * Stanley Miller: Danelectro (Vintage Baritone), Fender Stratocaster (HSS MN Black), Grestch (Electromatic SG), PRS (Custom 24) and Rickenbacker (360 Thinline)
 * Mike Sullivan:
 * Keyboards: Roland (E09 and Juno-D) and Yamaha PSR-450
 * Guitar: Gibson SG Deluxe 71
 * Piano: Fender Rhodes 1973


 * Production
 * Bulla - production
 * Michael Phillip Wojewoda - production, recording
 * Chris Lord-Alge - mixing
 * Joe Gastwirt - mastering
 * Craig Hoover, David Cohen, Kevin Sullivan and Will Canterbury - technical assitance