For Respect

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For Respect
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Studio album by
Released1993
RecordedJanuary 1993
Genre Indie rock
Length37:48
Label Touch and Go
Producer Steve Albini [1]
Don Caballero chronology
For Respect
(1993)
Don Caballero 2
(1995)

For Respect is the debut album by Don Caballero, a Pittsburgh-based band. [2] [3] For Respect was released on Touch and Go Records in 1993. [4]

Contents

Though Ian Williams is credited on guitar for this album, he only joined the band shortly before For Respect's recording and had little substantial creative influence. As a result, this album is much less orchestrated and complex than Don Caballero's later work. In a 2006 interview with the e-zine Space City Rock, Damon Che revealed that he played guitar on some Don Caballero songs, including the choruses of "Well Built Road".

SCTV

The album contains several allusions and references to the Canadian sketch comedy show Second City Television :

Critical reception

Professional ratings
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Trouser Press wrote: "Dynamic, driving, distorted and entirely free of indulgent improvisation, the eleven tracks — from the Melvins-like title cut to the ambling spareness of 'Subdued Confections' and the frenzied vectors of 'Belted Sweater' — underscore the value of talent in producing rugged instrumental music that’s really saying something." [1]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."For Respect"2:43
2."Chief Sitting Duck"2:21
3."New Laws"5:54
4."Nicked and Liqued"2:41
5."Rocco"2:47
6."Subdued Confections"2:29
7."Got a Mile, Got a Mile, Got an Inch"5:06
8."Our Caballero"2:07
9."Bears See Things Pretty Much the Way They Are"3:26
10."Well Built Road"6:05
11."Belted Sweater"2:06
Total length:37:45

Personnel

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