Cheer Up is the debut album by Plexi, released on Sub Pop Records on October 8, 1996. It was recorded by Jeff Powell at Oceanway Studios (Los Angeles, CA), Fox Force Five Studios (Los Angeles), and Ardent Studios (Memphis, TN). The packaging is an elaborate fold-out design, encased by a slide-off black external slipcase. There are three large photos of band members preening in front of bathroom mirrors; there is also 'BYE PLEXI & PALS (adios, amigos)' written on one of the mirrors with lipstick in guitarist Michael Barragan's handwriting. Though 'Star Star' shares a title with a 1973 Rolling Stones song (the uncensored title of the Stones' song is actually 'Starfucker'), it is not a cover. 'Peel' and 'Magnet' are re-recorded versions of songs from prior Plexi EPs. 'Peel' was given a radically-different 2nd half with lyrics, instead of the instrumental noise coda called 'He' with which it had previously ended. After a few minutes of reverb-heavy, hypnotic droning about how 'she can't stand her hair, she can't stand her face,' 'Peel' now had a chorus of, 'She was gonna swing/ She was gonna swing from her neckbone...' 'Bunny' is a 2-minute ambient segue apparently based on a sampled loop of an orchestra, with sounds of explosions in the distance; it concludes with a muffled, echoing scream of 'We're gonna die...' Barragan handled the vocals on '56,' a song said to be inspired by his love of numerology; the album's sleeve also had cryptic '23' artwork on it. In the liner notes, Barragan thanks the NHRA in the liner notes. The band as a whole thanks the L.A. Free Clinic, Dave N
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