Description

Original 1992 press on black vinyl with printed innersleeve

Ugly Kid Joe (whose name is a response to Pretty Boy Floyd) formed in Isla Vista, California, and features vocalist Whitfield Crane, guitarists Klaus Eichstadt and Dave Fortman, bassist Cordell Crockett, and drummer Mark Davis. Their first full-length album features the hit single Everything About You and it delivers a set of similar rockers and a handful of power ballads, including a revamped version of Harry Chapin’s Cats in the Cradle. Listeners who are too far removed from their adolescence to remember the joys of spitballs and Saturday schools won’t find America’s Least Wanted engaging in the least, but it wasn’t designed for them. Ugly Kid Joe rocks for the average high school kid, the one that doesn’t think about anything except girls, partying, and metal. On the whole, the band’s mixture of fizzy, fuzzy riffs, sing-song melodies, and calculated obnoxiousness isn’t that offensive, but it will certainly try the patience of anyone who doesn’t find their cutesy vulgarity fun. For fans of the band, America’s Least Wanted delivers the thrills.

Track listing:
1. Neighbor
2. Goddamn Devil
3. Come Tomorrow
4. Panhandlin Prince
5. Busy Bee
6. Don’t Go
7. So Damn Cool
8. Same Side
9. Cat’s in the Cradle
10. I’ll Keep Tryin
11. Everything About You
12. Madman-1992 remix
13. Mr. Recordman