Use Your Brain

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Use Your Brain
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Studio album by
Released23 March 1995
Genre Rap metal [1]
Length44:30
Label WEA / MVG
Producer Clawfinger, Jacob Hellner
Clawfinger chronology
Deaf Dumb Blind
(1993)
Use Your Brain
(1995)
Clawfinger
(1997)
Singles from Use Your Brain
  1. "Pin Me Down"
    Released: 1995
  2. "Pin Me Down 2"
    Released: 1995
  3. "Do What I Say"
    Released: 1995
  4. "Tomorrow"
    Released: 1996
Professional ratings
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Use Your Brain is the second studio album by Swedish rap metal band Clawfinger, released in 1995 by MVG Records and Warner Music Group. [3] It contains twelve tracks. Three bonus tracks were added to the 2004 re-release. Three singles and their accompanying videos were released from the album.

Contents

From Clawfinger's Facebook page: "After a lot of touring with Just D, Alice in Chains, Anthrax and others, Clawfinger went back home and wrote Use Your Brain in less than two months."

Track listing

  1. "Power" – 3:14
  2. "Pay the Bill" – 4:20
  3. "Pin Me Down" – 4:10
  4. "Waste My Time" – 3:13
  5. "Die High" – 2:34
  6. "It" – 5:21
  7. "Do What I Say" – 4:25
  8. "Undone" (feat. Freddie Wadling) – 4:11
  9. "What Are You Afraid Of" – 3:47
  10. "Back to the Basics" – 2:27
  11. "Easy Way Out" – 2:39
  12. "Tomorrow" – 4:09
  13. "Better Than This" – 3:36 (bonus track)
  14. "Three Good Riffs" – 3:56 (bonus track)
  15. "Armageddon Down" – 3:36 (bonus track)

Released singles

Credits

Charts

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