Menace to Sobriety (Ugly Kid Joe album)

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Menace to Sobriety
Uglykidjoe menace.jpg
Studio album by
Ugly Kid Joe
ReleasedJune 13, 1995
Recorded1994–1995
Length44:14
49:49 (non-U.S.)
Label Mercury
Producer GGGarth
Ugly Kid Joe chronology
America's Least Wanted
(1992)		Menace to Sobriety
(1995)		 Motel California
(1996)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [1]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Entertainment Weekly B [3]
Kerrang! Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [4]
MusicHound Rock Star full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [5]
Q Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg[ citation needed ]
Select Star full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [6]

Menace to Sobriety is the second studio album by American rock band Ugly Kid Joe. [7] It was released in 1995 through Mercury Records. [5] The album title is an allusion to the movie Menace II Society . It peaked at No. 25 on the UK Albums Chart. [8] "Milkman's Son", "Tomorrow's World" and "Cloudy Skies" were released as singles. Music videos were released for "Tomorrow's World", "Milkman's Son", and "Cloudy Skies".

Contents

Critical reception

Trouser Press noted that singer Whitfield Crane adopted "a new and nasty W. Axl Rose vocal affliction on some songs", and wrote that the band "reintroduce themselves as a growly, serious rock lot attempting to fill the gap left by the Gunners' silence". [9] The Washington Post called the album "more varied and tuneful than its predecessor". [10]

Track listing

  1. "Intro" – 1:49
  2. "God" (Whitfield Crane, Klaus Eichstadt, Dave Fortman) – 2:54
  3. "Tomorrow's World" (Crane, Eichstadt, Fortman, Shannon Larkin) – 4:18
  4. "Clover" (Crane, Eichstadt, Fortman) – 3:34
  5. "C.U.S.T." (Crane, Fortman) – 2:59
  6. "Milkman's Son" (Crane, Fortman) – 3:51
  7. "Suckerpath" (Crockett) – 4:53
  8. "Cloudy Skies" (Crane, Fortman) – 4:28
  9. "Jesus Rode a Harley" (Crane, Fortman) – 3:15
  10. "10/10" (Crockett) – 3:37
  11. "V.I.P." (Crane, Eichstadt, Larkin) – 3:46
  12. "Oompa" (Crane, Crockett) – 2:04 (this song is track 7 on side one on the cassette tape)
  13. "Candle Song" (Crane, Fortman) – 2:56
  14. "Slower Than Nowhere" (Crane, Tom Fletcher, Crockett)- 5:25 (non-U.S. releases only)

Personnel

Charts

Chart performance for Menace to Sobriety
Chart (1995)Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA) [11] 19
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria) [12] 24
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) [13] 28
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) [14] 86
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista) [15] 26
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [16] 29
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [17] 22
UK Albums (OCC) [18] 25
US Billboard 200 [19] 178

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