Strait Up

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Strait Up
Studio album by Snot
Released	November 7, 2000
Recorded	1998–2000
Genre	Alternative Metal Nu metal
Length	50:17
Label	Immortal Records
Producer(s)	Mike Doling John "Tumor" Fahnestock Jim Wirt
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Snot chronology
Get Some (1997)	Strait Up (2000)	Alive! (2002)

Strait Up was an album released by Snot in 2000 (the album has been credited to Various Artists and Strait Up as well). Originally intended to be Snot's sophomore album, for release in 1999, plans were drastically changed when lead singer Lynn Strait died in a car accident on December 11, 1998. Though 11 tracks themselves had been recorded, Strait had only recorded vocals for one of them by the time of his death. By 1999, Snot's surviving members decided to finish the vocal-less tracks by getting musicians from other popular bands (many of which were friends of the band) to write lyrics and sing on the unfinished tracks. The finished album was released on November 7, 2000, featuring the 11 tracks, a spoken word tribute from Ozzy Osbourne, another spoken word piece by Strait himself, and Snot's last recorded song with their original lineup. Snot released a live album in 2002, but have otherwise disbanded.

[edit] Track listing

1. "Starlit Eyes", featuring Serj Tankian of System of a Down
2. "Take It Back", featuring Jonathan Davis of KoЯn & Nathan "Karma" Cox
3. "I Know Where You're At", featuring M.C.U.D. of (Həd) P.E.
4. "Catch a Spirit", featuring Max Cavalera of Soulfly & Shavo Odadjian of System of a Down
5. "Until Next Time", featuring Jason Sears of R.K.L.
6. "Divided (An Argument for the Soul)", featuring Brandon Boyd of Incubus
7. "Ozzy Speaks", a spoken word track featuring Ozzy Osbourne
8. "Angel's Son", featuring Lajon Witherspoon, Clint Lowery & Morgan Rose of Sevendust
9. "Forever", featuring Fred Durst of Limp Bizkit
10. "Funeral Flights", featuring Dez Fafara of Coal Chamber
11. "Requiem", featuring Corey Taylor of Slipknot
12. "Reaching Out", featuring Mark McGrath of Sugar Ray & Whitfield Crane of Ugly Kid Joe & Life of Agony
13. "Absent", featuring Snot and Aimee Echo of theSTART
14. "Sad Air", a spoken word track featuring Lynn Strait, with backing guitar by ex-Snot guitarist Sonny Mayo.
15. A hidden track that starts – 3:13 into the song. It is a mix of songs from Get Some mixed by DJ Lethal.

[edit] Miscellanea

• "Starlit Eyes" was the track recorded that featured Lynn's vocals. It can be found on Snot's album Alive, under the name "Choose What?"

• A slightly different version of "Absent" was first released on the Strangeland soundtrack in 1998.

• "Angel's Son" was the single from the album. It received strong airplay on rock radio, and was later re-recorded by all the members of Sevendust for their album Animosity. A live acoustic version of the song can also be found on Sevendust's album Southside Double-Wide: Acoustic Live

• The hidden track on the album starts 3:13 into the song. The number 313 seems to be significant to the band in some way, as there was a song called "313" on Get Some, and John Fahnestock's clothing company is called Three Thirteen Merchandise.

• Unlike most albums that are in tribute of someone, most of the tracks on Strait Up cannot be classified as ballads. Snot never specialized in slower, mellower songs, so all the tracks sound like typical nu-metal music. However, mellower vocal sections are seen in the choruses of many of the tracks.