''All Scratched Up!'' is the fourth album by
Down by Law
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, released in 1996. The band supported the album by touring with labelmates
Millencolin
Millencolin is a Swedish punk rock band that was formed on 12 October 1992 by Nikola Šarčević, Mathias Färm, and Erik Ohlsson (musician), Erik Ohlsson in Örebro, Sweden. In early 1993, drummer Fredrik Larzon joined the band. The name Mil ...
.
Vinyl versions of the album were released as a double album, with Side D consisting of vinyl-only bonus tracks. Three songs on the album ("True Believers", "Post Office Lament", and "True Music", one per vinyl side) end with different performances of a short song called "Counting Crows Must Die", with Side D ending in seven different versions of the song.
Critical reception
The ''
Chicago Tribune
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'' wrote that Down by Law "blends punk and pop with knowing ease but without a whole lot of flair."
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The Bradenton Herald
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History
On September 15, 1922, Volume 1, Number 1 was published as ''The Evening Herald''. It was a merger of two weekly papers: the ''Manatee River Jour ...
'' determined that "musically, 'Radio Ragga' (a melancholy reggae number) and 'Far And Away' (the catchy melody switches motifs to rolling drums and stretched guitar sounds a la The Who, then back again) are most interesting."
[ '']The Tampa Tribune
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The newspaper also published a ''St. Pe ...
'' thought that "the band dabbles in dime-store punk and tuneless wonk with limited success."[
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Track listing
# "Independence Day"
# "Cheap Thrill"
# "All American"
# "Hell Song"
# "True Believers"
# "Counting Crows Must Die"
# "Giving It All Away"
# "Gruesome Gary"
# "Radio Ragga"
# "Attention: Anyone"
# "Superman"
# "Post Office Lament"
# "Counting Crows Must Die"
# "Ivory Girl"
# "No Has Beens"
# "Kevin's Song"
# "True Music"
# "Counting Crows Must Die"
# "Far And Away"
# "Punks And Drunks"
# "Memories Are Made of This
"Memories Are Made of This" is a popular song about nostalgia, written in 1955 by Terry Gilkyson, Richard Dehr, and Frank Miller. They were the members of a three-pieced group called "The Easy Riders", who served as a backing band for Dean Mart ...
" (hidden track)
Vinyl edition bonus tracks:
# Daily
# Neon Skies
# Going Underground
# Dag Punk
# World Without Me
# Green Hills of Virginia
# Counting Crows Must Die
References
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Down by Law (band) albums
1996 albums
Epitaph Records albums