Use Your Brain
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{{Infobox album
| name = Use Your Brain
| type = studio
| artist = Clawfinger
| cover = Clawfinger_use.jpg
| alt =
| released = 23 March 1995
| recorded =
| studio =
| genre = Rap metal{{cite web | url=https://www.rockhard.de/reviews/clawfinger-use-your-brain_271635.html | title=CLAWFINGER - Use Your Brain|website=Rock Hard|language=de}}
| length = 44:30
| label = WEA / MVG
| producer = Clawfinger, Jacob Hellner
| prev_title = Deaf Dumb Blind
| prev_year = 1993
| next_title = Clawfinger
| next_year = 1997
| misc = {{Singles
| name = Use Your Brain
| type = studio
| single1 = Pin Me Down
| single1date = 1995
| single2 = Do What I Say
| single2date = 1995
| single3 = Tomorrow
| single3date = 1996
}}
}}
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = AllMusic
| rev1score = {{Rating|2.5|5}}{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r502843|title=Use Your Brain}}
}}
Use Your Brain is the second studio album by Swedish rap metal band Clawfinger, released on 23 March 1995 through MVG Records and Warner Music Group.[http://www.discogs.com/Clawfinger-Use-Your-Brain/release/374239 Clawfinger – Use Your Brain] The band reunited with producer Jacob Hellner for the recording of the album. Use Your Brain was written in less than two months and spawned three singles with accompanying videos. The album contains twelve tracks, with three bonus tracks being added to a 2004 re-release.
Track listing
{{Track listing
| total_length = 44:30
| all_writing =
| title1 = Power
| length1 = 3:14
| title2 = Pay the Bill
| length2 = 4:20
| title3 = Pin Me Down
| length3 = 4:10
| title4 = Waste My Time
| length4 = 3:13
| title5 = Die High
| length5 = 2:34
| title6 = It
| length6 = 5:21
| title7 = Do What I Say
| length7 = 4:25
| title8 = Undone
| note8 = featuring Freddie Wadling
| length8 = 4:11
| title9 = What Are You Afraid Of
| length9 = 3:47
| title10 = Back to the Basics
| length10 = 2:27
| title11 = Easy Way Out
| length11 = 2:39
| title12 = Tomorrow
| length12 = 4:09
}}
{{Track listing
| headline = Bonus tracks
| title13 = Better Than This
| length13 = 3:36
| title14 = Three Good Riffs
| length14 = 3:56
| title15 = Armageddon Down
| length15 = 3:36
}}
Personnel
- Engineer – Thomas Pettersson
- Mixed by – Stefan Glaumann
- Producer – Clawfinger, Jacob Hellner
Charts
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=Weekly charts=
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|+Weekly chart performance for Use Your Brain ! scope="col"| Chart (1995) ! scope="col"| Peak |
| {{album chart|Austria|9|artist=Clawfinger|album=Use Your Brain|rowheader=true|accessdate=29 January 2021}} |
| {{album chart|Flanders|15|artist=Clawfinger|album=Use Your Brain|rowheader=true|accessdate=29 January 2021}} |
| {{album chart|Wallonia|19|artist=Clawfinger|album=Use Your Brain|rowheader=true|accessdate=29 January 2021}} |
| {{album chart|Netherlands|87|artist=Clawfinger|album=Use Your Brain|rowheader=true|accessdate=29 January 2021}} |
| scope="row"| European Albums (European Top 100 Albums)
| 14 |
|---|
| {{album chart|Germany4|8|id=2042|artist=Clawfinger|album=Use Your Brain|rowheader=true|accessdate=29 January 2021}} |
| {{album chart|Hungary|32|year=1995|week=13|rowheader=true|accessdate=26 June 2025}} |
| {{album chart|Norway|14|artist=Clawfinger|album=Use Your Brain|rowheader=true|accessdate=29 January 2021}} |
| {{album chart|Sweden|7|artist=Clawfinger|album=Use Your Brain|rowheader=true|accessdate=29 January 2021}} |
| {{album chart|Switzerland|6|artist=Clawfinger|album=Use Your Brain|rowheader=true|accessdate=29 January 2021}} |
| {{album chart|UK2|80|date=19950409|rowheader=true|accessdate=29 January 2021}} |
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References
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External links
- {{MusicBrainz release|mbid=6d845552-3724-441e-9d84-54cfe40b0104|name=Use Your Brain}}
- {{MusicBrainz release|mbid=411fbc50-479b-4029-baf2-a62c3c002ec8|name=Use Your Brain (2004 re-release)}}
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