Injected (album)

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Injected
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Studio album by
Released1995
StudioKala Studios (Atlanta, Georgia) Indigo Ranch Studios (Malibu, California)
Length40:24
Label
Producer
Phunk Junkeez chronology
Phunk Junkeez
(1992)
Injected
(1995)
Fear of a Wack Planet
(1998)

Injected is the second album by the American band Phunk Junkeez, [1] released in 1995 on Trauma/Interscope Records. [2] [3] The album was co-produced by Fishbone singer Angelo Moore and Ross Robinson. It featured a cover of the Kiss song "I Love It Loud" which appeared in the film Tommy Boy , [4] and was Phunk Junkeez' most successful single, peaking at No. 38 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart. [5] [6]

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Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [7]
Tucson Weekly Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [5]

The Tucson Weekly cautioned that the album may "sound numbingly derivative." [5] The Chicago Sun-Times deemed it "high-energy, low-brain." [8] The Sun-Herald praised the "booming hip hop rhythms and massive, distorted guitar riffs." [9]

Track listing

#TitleTime
1B-Boy Hard3:10
2 I Love It Loud 3:04
3Me 'N Yer Girl6:48
4People2:35
5Flippin' My Wig3:46
6Snapped3:02
7Devil Woman2:12
8Smooth Tip4:26
9Chuck3:47
10Liquid Aggression1:28
11The Roach Clip2:44
12White Boy Day3:22

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