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- Artist: Don Caballero
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- Release Date: 1993
- Genre: Rock
Review
Rare is the rock band that can make a strong impression on the listener without the benefit of a vocalist, but Pittsburgh's Don Caballero comes roaring out of the gate on its debut album. The quartet showcases its instrumental wizardry on the opening title cut, a skull-crushing groove monster that finds evocative drummer Damon Che leading the band through a succession of stop-time breaks. The energy builds for the chaotic dissonance of "Chief Sitting Duck," then dissipates on the Slint-like dirge of "New Laws," which shows a subtle mastery of dynamics. Songs like the thundering "Nicked and Liquid," the heavily distorted "Rocco," and the psychotic jamming of "Got a Mile, Got a Mile, Got an Inch" (which reveals the origins of the band's name in an SCTV sketch) reach out and grab you by the cojones, shaking you around like a rag doll without resorting to headbanger clichés. With Midas-touch production from Steve Albini, For Respect is one of the better instrumental rock records of the early '90s. ~ Bret Love, All Music GuideTracks
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| For Respect | Don Caballero | (2:43) | |
| Chief Sitting Duck | Don Caballero | (2:21) | |
| New Laws | Don Caballero | (5:53) | |
| Nicked and Liqued | Don Caballero | (2:40) | |
| Rocco | Don Caballero | (2:47) | |
| Subdued Confections | Don Caballero | (2:29) | |
| Got a Mile, Got a Mile, Got an Inch | Don Caballero | (5:06) | |
| Our Caballero | Don Caballero | (2:07) | |
| Bears See Things Pretty Much the Way They Are | Don Caballero | (3:26) | |
| Well Built Road | Don Caballero | (6:05) | |
| Belted Sweater | Don Caballero | (2:06) |
