Skeezer Pleezer Explained

Skeezer Pleezer
Type:Album
Artist:UTFO
Cover:Utfosp.jpg
Alt:The cover consists of UTFO appearing shirtless against a red background. The group's name is on the top-left corner and the album title is below the group, both in white lettering.
Released:1986
Genre:Hip hop
Label:Select Records
Producer:Full Force
Prev Title:UTFO
Prev Year:1985
Next Title:Lethal
Next Year:1987

Skeezer Pleezer is the second album by the American musical group UTFO, released in 1986 on Select Records.[1] Due to personal issues, Educated Rapper was absent from this album, except the track, "Pick Up the Pace." The most notable song was "Split Personality," a paean to dissociative identity disorder. The album was produced by Full Force.[2]

Critical reception

Robert Christgau praised the "cheerfully amoral anticrime versifying of 'Just Watch'."

The Rolling Stone Album Guide opined that "the attempts at singing ... are flat-out disasters." AllMusic noted that UTFO "were essentially already in stylistic retreat as the gimmick tag they picked up for the success of 'Roxanne, Roxanne' was proving difficult to shake."

Track listing

  1. "Just Watch"
  2. "Where Did You Go?"
  3. "We Work Hard"
  4. "Kangol & Doc"
  5. "The House Will Rock"
  6. "Split Personality"
  7. "Pick Up the Pace"
  8. "Bad Luck Barry"
  9. (untitled hidden track)

Notes and References

  1. Web site: U.T.F.O. Biography by Greg Prato . AllMusic . 15 May 2023.
  2. Web site: UTFO . Trouser Press . 15 May 2023.