For Respect Explained

For Respect
Type:Album
Artist:Don Caballero
Cover:ForRespect.jpg
Released:1993
Recorded:January 1993
Genre:Indie rock
Length:37:48
Label:Touch and Go
Producer:Steve Albini[1]
Next Title:Don Caballero 2
Next Year:1995

For Respect is the debut album by Don Caballero, a Pittsburgh-based band.[2] [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 Respects 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

The album contains several allusions and references to the Canadian sketch comedy show Second City Television:

Critical reception

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]

Personnel

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Don Caballero. Trouser Press.
  2. Book: Fine, Jon. Your Band Sucks: What I Saw at Indie Rock's Failed Revolution (but Can No Longer Hear). May 3, 2016. Penguin. 9780143108283.
  3. News: Soundcheck . Dayton Daily News . Feb 25, 1994 . Go! . 17.
  4. Book: Earles, Andrew. Gimme Indie Rock: 500 Essential American Underground Rock Albums 1981-1996. September 15, 2014. Voyageur Press. 9780760346488.