For Respect
| For Respect | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | October 10, 1993 | |||
| Recorded | January 1993 | |||
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| Length | 37:48 | |||
| Label | Touch and Go | |||
| Producer | Steve Albini[1] | |||
| Don Caballero chronology | ||||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [2] |
For Respect is the debut album by Don Caballero, a Pittsburgh-based math rock band.[3] For Respect was released on Touch and Go Records in 1993.[4]
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[edit]
The album contains several allusions and references to the Canadian sketch comedy show Second City Television:
- The band took its name from an episode of SCTV in which TV station manager Guy Caballero became a Corleone-esque mob boss called Don Caballero.[1] "For respect" is Guy Caballero's justification for using a wheelchair.
- On the back cover of the CD insert, drummer Damon Che is photographed sitting in a wheelchair dressed as Guy Caballero.
- The audio samples in "Got a Mile, Got a Mile, Got an Inch" are all from SCTV. In one, someone asks Guy Caballero "I thought you rode a wheelchair?", to which he responds "Oh, I just use that for respect."
- "Subdued Confections" is yet another quote from SCTV.
Critical reception[edit]
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[edit]
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 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[edit]
- Don Caballero:
- Damon Che - drums; guitar on "Well Built Road"
- Ian Williams - guitar
- Pat Morris - bass guitar
- Mike Banfield - guitar
- Steve Albini - engineer (uncredited)
References[edit]
- ^ a b c "Don Caballero".
- ^ "For Respect - Don Caballero | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic.
- ^ Fine, Jon (May 3, 2016). Your Band Sucks: What I Saw at Indie Rock's Failed Revolution (but Can No Longer Hear). Penguin. ISBN 9780143108283 – via Google Books.
- ^ Earles, Andrew (September 15, 2014). Gimme Indie Rock: 500 Essential American Underground Rock Albums 1981-1996. Voyageur Press. ISBN 9780760346488 – via Google Books.
