Pure Rock Fury

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Pure Rock Fury
Clutch - Pure Rock Fury.jpg
Studio album by
Clutch
ReleasedMarch 13, 2001 (2001-03-13)
RecordedSeptember 2000
Venue 9:30 Club (Washington, D.C.)
StudioUncle Punchy Studios (Silverspring, MD)
IIWII (Weehawken, NJ)
The Machine Shop (Hoboken, NJ)
Show Place Studios (Dover, NJ)
Genre Stoner rock, hard rock, blues rock, funk metal
Length61:24
Label Atlantic
Producer Uncle Punchy, Machine, Clutch
Clutch chronology
Jam Room
(1999)		Pure Rock Fury
(2001)		 Live at the Googolplex
(2002)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [1]
Kerrang! Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [2]
NME 8/10 [3]

Pure Rock Fury is the fifth album by American rock band Clutch, released on March 13, 2001, and is their only album release with Atlantic Records. The album liner notes state that it is dedicated to Ronnie True. [4]

Contents

Album information

This album features guest appearances by Scott "Wino" Weinrich (The Obsessed, Saint Vitus, Spirit Caravan), Leslie West (Mountain), and Dan and Joe of Sixty Watt Shaman, highlighting the band's habit of having musical contemporaries play on their albums. [5]

The album yielded a minor hit with "Careful with That Mic...", a rap rock parody, which CMJ complimented for its clever rhymes. [6] The song "Immortal" was originally released with different lyrics and arrangement as the song "Baby I'm Down" by Leslie West on his debut album Mountain . Clutch rearranged it and changed the lyrics somewhat, and it features a guitar solo by the original author, Leslie West, on it, who then had his band Mountain cover this Clutch version on their Mystic Fire album the following year.

Clutch vocalist Neil Fallon has stated in an interview that of all Clutch's albums, Pure Rock Fury is his least favourite. [7]

The song "Immortal" is featured in the video game Hitman: Contracts . The song "Pure Rock Fury" is featured in the video game MotorStorm: Pacific Rift .

Track listing

All songs written by Clutch.

No.TitleLength
1."American Sleep"4:18
2."Pure Rock Fury"3:21
3."Open Up the Border"3:45
4."Careful with That Mic..."3:27
5."Red Horse Rainbow"5:58
6."The Great Outdoors!"3:47
7."Smoke Banshee"3:33
8."Frankenstein"5:41
9."Sinkemlow"3:55
10."Immortal"3:39
11."Brazenhead"6:28
12."Drink to the Dead"5:58
13."Spacegrass (Live)"7:28
Total length:61:24

Personnel

Production

Monitor engineer: Chris Sherman

Chart positions

Albums

YearChartPosition
2001 Billboard 200 135
2001 Top Heatseekers 5

Singles

YearSongChartPosition
2001"Careful with That Mic..." Mainstream Rock Tracks 24

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References

  1. ↑ AllMusic review
  2. ↑ Mörat (March 10, 2001). "Albums". Kerrang! . No. 843. UK: EMAP. p. 46.
  3. ↑ Johns, Darren (September 12, 2005). "Clutch : Pure Rock Fury". NME. Retrieved May 18, 2024.
  4. ↑ "Pro Rock". Pro-rock.com. Retrieved February 20, 2016.
  5. ↑ "CLUTCH : Discography". Pro-rock.com. Retrieved February 20, 2016.
  6. ↑ CMJ New Music Monthly - Google Books. April 2001. p. 68. Retrieved March 6, 2012.
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