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For Respect

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For Respect
Studio album by
Released1993
RecordedJanuary 1993
GenreIndie rock
Length37:48
LabelTouch and Go
ProducerSteve Albini[1]
Don Caballero chronology
For Respect
(1993)
Don Caballero 2
(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 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

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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

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AllMusic[5]

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

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No.TitleLength
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

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References

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  1. ^ a b c "Don Caballero". Trouser Press.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ "Soundcheck". Go!. Dayton Daily News. Feb 25, 1994. p. 17.
  4. ^ Earles, Andrew (September 15, 2014). Gimme Indie Rock: 500 Essential American Underground Rock Albums 1981-1996. Voyageur Press. ISBN 9780760346488.
  5. ^ "For Respect Don Caballero". AllMusic.