''Allroy for Prez'' is an EP by the American

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band All, released in 1988 through

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. Released the same year as the band's debut album, '' Allroy Sez'', the EP was All's final release with their original singer

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Background

The EP was recorded in March 1988 at Third Wave Recording in

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with

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Richard Andrews, who had worked with the band since 1986. Guitarist Stephen Egerton served as assistant engineer, while drummer Bill Stevenson served as

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. The recordings were mixed that August. Bassist Karl Alvarez illustrated the cover, which features the band's Allroy character campaigning for

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, timed to coincide with the

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. The back cover includes "The Allstitution", listing decrees such as "Freedom of

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", "Lower the Unenjoyment Level", and "Allistic Legislation". ''Allroy for Prez'' was released through

as a 6-song EP and an 8-song cassette and CD, the latter two including the two tracks from the " Just Perfect" single released earlier in the year: a

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ed version of "Just Perfect" from the band's debut album, ''Allroy Sez'', and "Wishing Well", which had been recorded during the ''Allroy Sez'' sessions but was not included on the album.

''Allroy for Prez'' was All's last release with their original singer, Dave Smalley, who quit the band after its release because he could not keep up with their busy touring schedule. "When I quit, it was because I was really burned out", he later recalled. I couldn't cut the touring mustard.""Bonus Cut". ''Filmage: The Story of Descendents/All''. Event occurs at 19:13. "I was on the road for nine and a half months in one year, and I remember we were doing laundry and Bill started talking about the next tour. We were gonna get back in two more weeks, and he was already planning the next one and the next recording, and he looked at me and said 'You're not staying, are you? "We just went out and out and out and out and out and out," remembered Stevenson, "and I just think he did what any smart person would do and moved on." Smalley went on to found Down by Law and reunite with his pre-All bands DYS and

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. He was replaced in All's lineup by Scott Reynolds.

Reception

Jack Rabid of

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gave ''Allroy for Prez'' three and a half stars out of five, calling it "so much better han ''Allroy Sez''that it makes its predecessor sound stillborn." He praised "Skin Deep" as "one of the finest songs of this band's first nine years. Whopping hooks, great backing vocals, and even sharp lyrics on plastic people, L.A.'s biggest export. Of the rest, only the jerky instrumental 'Son-O-Qua' is skippable; 'Skin Deep' and the other five tracks clock in with some of the meatiest pop since...well, since the

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' previous LP."

Track listing

;EP version ;CD and cassette versions

Personnel

;Band * Karl Alvarez –

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, cover drawings * Stephen Egerton –

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, assistant

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–

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* Bill Stevenson –

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, producer ;Production *Richard Andrews – engineer

References

{{Authority control All (band) EPs 1988 EPs Cruz Records EPs Albums produced by Bill Stevenson (musician)