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Skeezer Pleezer
The cover consists of UTFO appearing shirtless against a red background. The group's name is on the top-left corner and the album title is below the group, both in white lettering.
Studio album by
Released1986
GenreHip hop
LabelSelect Records
ProducerFull Force
UTFO chronology
UTFO
(1985)
Skeezer Pleezer
(1986)
Lethal
(1987)

Skeezer Pleezer is the second album by the American musical group UTFO, released in 1986 on Select Records.[1] The most notable song was "Split Personality," a paean to dissociative identity disorder. The album was produced by Full Force.[2]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[3]
Robert ChristgauB[4]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[5]

Robert Christgau praised the "cheerfully amoral anticrime versifying of 'Just Watch'."[4]

The Rolling Stone Album Guide opined that "the attempts at singing ... are flat-out disasters."[5] AllMusic noted that UTFO "were essentially already in stylistic retreat as the gimmick tag they picked up for the success of 'Roxanne, Roxanne' was proving difficult to shake."[3]

Track listing

  1. "Just Watch"
  2. "Where Did You Go?"
  3. "We Work Hard"
  4. "Kangol & Doc"
  5. "The House Will Rock"
  6. "Split Personality"
  7. "Pick Up the Pace"
  8. "Bad Luck Barry"
  9. (untitled hidden track)

References

  1. ^ "U.T.F.O. Biography by Greg Prato". AllMusic. Retrieved 15 May 2023.
  2. ^ "UTFO". Trouser Press. Retrieved 15 May 2023.
  3. ^ a b "Skeezer Pleezer Review by Ron Wynn". AllMusic. Retrieved 15 May 2023.
  4. ^ a b "UTFO". Robert Christgau. Retrieved 15 May 2023.
  5. ^ a b The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. p. 728.