World Class Listening Problem

Infobox Album |
Name = World Class Listening Problem
Type = Album
Artist = Don Caballero


Released = May 16, 2006
Recorded =
Genre = Math rock
Length = 44:55
Label = Relapse Records
Producer = Al Sutton
Reviews =
*All Music Guide Rating|3.5|5 [http://www.allmusicguide.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:kzfixqedld6e link]
*Decibel (favorable) [http://www.decibelmagazine.com/reviews/june2006/doncaballero.aspx link]
*Delusions of Adequacy (favorable) [http://www.adequacy.net/review.php?reviewID=6925 link]
*Pitchfork (5.3/10) [http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/37428/Don_Caballero_WorldClass_Listening_Problem link]
Last album = "American Don"
(2000)
This album = "World Class Listening Problem"
(2006)
Next album = "Punkgasm"
(2008)

"World Class Listening Problem" is the fifth full length studio album by math rock band Don Caballero. Damon Che is the only member of the original lineup appearing on this record.

Track listing

# "Mmmmm Acting, I Love Me Some Good Acting" – 5:54
# "Sure We Had Knives Around" – 5:19
# "And and and, He Lowered the Twin Down" – 4:15
# "I Agree..... No!..... I Disagree" – 4:32
# "Palm Trees in the Fecking Bahamas" – 3:54
# "World Class Listening Problem" – 4:50
# "Railroad Cancellation" – 5:18
# "Theme from Bricktop Clowns" – 1:49
# "Savage Composition" – 4:42
# "I'm Goofballs for Bozo Jazz" – 4:35

Personnel

*Don Caballero:
**Damon Che – drums
**Eugene Doyle – guitars
**Jeffery Ellsworth – guitars
**Jason Jouver - bass guitars
*Al Sutton - recording engineer
*Dan Curie - assistant engineer
*Alan Douches - mastering

Miscellanea

The phrase "World Class Listening Problem" first entered the Don Caballero lexicon in late 1999 as the provisional title of the "American Don" song "Details On How To Get ICEMAN On Your License Plate".

All of the songs were recorded live in the studio with little or no overdubs or edits. Che remarks that this led producer Al Sutton to say that they were the first band he'd ever worked with who could actually play their songs.

"Savage Composition" and "I'm Goofballs For Bozo Jazz" started as one song called "Heavily Beautiful" (as heard on the Fall 2003 tour), before being split into two.

In a [http://shop.relapse.com/content/resound.aspx?EditorialID=108 2006 interview] with "Resound" magazine, Damon Che described "And And And, He Lowered The Twin Down" as "a sequel of sorts," presumably to the 1993 Don Caballero single "ANDANDANDANDANDANDANDANDANDAND". At a 2003 show in Cleveland, Ohio Che introduced the song with a "terrible story" of two twins. Of the two twins, only one was slender enough to be lowered down through the hole of a roof. The song is about what happened when the twin got in there.