Strait Up
Strait Up is the second and final studio album by Snot, released on November 7, 2000. The album features appearances by the lead vocalists of a number of major nu metal groups.[1][2] The album was released as a tribute to Snot's lead singer Lynn Strait, who was killed in a car accident on December 11, 1998.[1][3]
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The album peaked at #56 on the Billboard 200.[4] CMJ called the album "A vivid cross section of nu-metal styles."[5] Melody Maker gave the album 4 stars out of 5 and said that "The riffs are diamond hard and magnificently driven... the best of the band is found in their quieter moments."[6] It won a 2000 Metal Edge Readers' Choice Award for Hits/Compilation/Live Album of the Year.[7]
Track listing
- "Starlit Eyes", featuring Serj Tankian of System of a Down (2:58) (Fahnestock, Miller)
- "Take It Back", featuring Jonathan Davis of Korn (3:03) (Fahnestock)
- "I Know Where You're At", featuring M.C.U.D. of Hed PE (4:39) (Fahnestock, Doling)
- "Catch A Spirit", featuring Max Cavalera of Soulfly (3:55) (Fahnestock, Cavalera)
- "Until Next Time", featuring Jason Sears of R.K.L. (3:11) (Fahnestock, Sears, Strait)
- "Divided (An Argument for the Soul)", featuring Brandon Boyd of Incubus (3:46) (Fahnestock, Boyd)
- "Ozzy Speaks", a spoken word track featuring Ozzy Osbourne (0:16)
- "Angel's Son", featuring Lajon Witherspoon, Clint Lowery, and Morgan Rose of Sevendust (3:49) (Lowery, Witherspoon)
- "Forever", featuring Fred Durst of Limp Bizkit (2:55) (Fahnestock, Durst)
- "Funeral Flights", featuring Dez Fafara of Coal Chamber (2:59) (Fahnestock)
- "Requiem", featuring Corey Taylor of Slipknot & Stone Sour (3:36) (Fahnestock, Taylor)
- "Reaching Out", featuring Mark McGrath of Sugar Ray & Whitfield Crane of Ugly Kid Joe (4:39) (Fahnestock, Crane, McGrath)
- "Absent", one of only two completed tracks for Snot's unfinished second album (appears on Strangeland's soundtrack) (5:30) (Strait)
- "Sad Air", a spoken word track featuring Lynn Strait, with backing guitar by Snot guitarist Sonny Mayo (2:11) (Mayo)
- "Strait Up", a hidden track that is mixed by DJ Lethal (5:58)
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