Pack Up the Cats is an album by the alternative rock

Alternative rock

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 band Local H

Local H

Local H is an American rock duo, formed by Joe Daniels and Scott Lucas in Zion, Illinois in 1987. Local H's 1996 album, As Good as Dead, includes the top 10 hit "Bound for the Floor" Author, rock critic and Rolling Stone contributor Greg Kot and the Chicago Tribune named the band its 2008 Chicago...

. It was released on September 1, 1998, on Island Records

Island Records

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. The album seemed that it had a chance at being successful, especially with its catchy single "All the Kids Are Right", but this changed when Polygram

PolyGram

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, the parent label of Island, merged with Universal, causing the album to be all but forgotten during the transition. This would be their last album released on Island before they split from the label, as well as the last album with original drummer Joe Daniels. It was ranked #20 on Spin

Spin (magazine)

Spin is a music magazine founded in 1985 by publisher Bob Guccione Jr.-History:In its early years, the magazine was noted for its broad music coverage with an emphasis on college-oriented rock music and on the ongoing emergence of hip-hop. The magazine was eclectic and bold, if sometimes haphazard...

s 20 best albums of 1998.

Track listing

All songs by Local H

Local H

Local H is an American rock duo, formed by Joe Daniels and Scott Lucas in Zion, Illinois in 1987. Local H's 1996 album, As Good as Dead, includes the top 10 hit "Bound for the Floor" Author, rock critic and Rolling Stone contributor Greg Kot and the Chicago Tribune named the band its 2008 Chicago...

1. "All-Right (Oh, Yeah)" – 3:09
2. "“Cha!” Said the Kitty" – 2:57
3. "Lucky" – :48
4. "Hit the Skids or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Rock" – 4:38
5. "500,000 Scovilles" – 1:36
6. "What Can I Tell You?" – 4:52
7. "Fine and Good" – 4:08
8. "Lead Pipe Cinch" – 1:04
9. "Cool Magnet" – 4:07
10. "She Hates My Job" – 4:08
11. "Stoney" – 1:41
12. "Laminate Man" – 3:17
13. "All the Kids Are Right" – 3:48
14. "Deep Cut" – 2:26
15. "Lucky Time" – 4:59

Australian Bonus Disc

1. "It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Want to Rock and Roll)" (AC/DC
   AC/DC
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    cover)
2. "Answering Machine"

Personnel

• Scott Lucas
  Scott Lucas (musician)
  David Scott Lucas, born May 10, 1970, is best known for being the singer and guitar/bass player, as well as the only remaining original member, of the post-grunge band Local H....
  
   – vocals, guitar
  Guitar
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  , bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  
• Joe Daniels
  Joe Daniels
  Joe Daniels is an American rock drummer best known as the ex-drummer for Local H.-Local H:In 1987, while attending high school in Zion, IL Daniels and Scott Lucas, eventually formed Local H in 1990. Local H was originally a three-piece band which consisted Joe Daniels on drums, Scott Lucas on...
  
   – drum
  Drum
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  s, whistling
  Whistling
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• Dean DeLeo
  Dean DeLeo
  Dean DeLeo is an American guitarist for the rock band Stone Temple Pilots.He is also known for his role in the short-lived bands Talk Show and Army of Anyone, which featured his younger brother Robert DeLeo, Filter frontman Richard Patrick, and session drummer Ray Luzier...
  
   – guitar on "Cool Magnet"
• Roy Thomas Baker
  Roy Thomas Baker
  Roy Thomas Baker is a multiple award-winning Anglo-American music producer, songwriter, arranger and Recording Academy Governor, who has produced Platinum and Gold certified pop and rock records from the 1970s to the present.- Career :Baker began his career at Decca Records in England at the age...
  
  – Producer, Mixing
• Nick DiDia – Engineer, Mixing
• Lisa Ellis – Assistant
• George Marino – Mastering
• Eric Hoffman – Assistant
• Ryan Williams – Engineer
• Kevin Allison – Assistant

Album

Year	Chart	Position
1998	The Billboard 200	140
1998	Heatseekers	7

Singles

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1998	"All The Kids Are Right"	Mainstream Rock Tracks	19
1998	"All The Kids Are Right"	Modern Rock Tracks	20