{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = 75% Less Fat | type = Album | artist = Chris Mars | cover = 75 percent Less Fat (album).jpg | alt = | released = 1993 | recorded = 1992 | venue = | studio = | genre = Power pop<ref name="allmusic.com">{{cite web |last1=Erlewine |first1=Stephen Thomas |title=Chris Mars - 75% Less Fat Album Reviews, Songs & More {{!}} AllMusic |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/75-less-fat-mw0000095524 |website=allmusic |access-date=28 March 2023 |language=en}}</ref> | length = 40:13 | label = Smash<ref name=CL/> | producer = Chris Mars<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/style/1993/03/21/bash-pop-minneapoliss-rousing-rock-and-rollers/5fbd5312-2905-40fe-9285-e4d5ed286c83/|title=BASH POP: MINNEAPOLIS'S ROUSING ROCK-AND-ROLLERS|first=Mark|last=Jenkins|date=March 21, 1993|via=www.washingtonpost.com}}</ref> | prev_title = Horseshoes and Hand Grenades | prev_year = 1992 | next_title = Tenterhooks | next_year = 1995 }} {{music ratings |rev1 = AllMusic |rev1score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref name="auto2">{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/75-less-fat-mw0000095524|title=75% Less Fat - Chris Mars | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic|via=www.allmusic.com}}</ref> |rev2 = Robert Christgau |rev2score = {{Rating-Christgau|dud}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?id=3287&name=Chris+Mars|title=Robert Christgau: CG: Chris Mars|website=www.robertchristgau.com}}</ref> |rev3 = ''Deseret News'' |rev3score = {{rating|3|4}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.deseret.com/1993/4/28/19044188/4-releases-may-offer-hope-for-new-replacements|title=4 RELEASES MAY OFFER HOPE FOR NEW REPLACEMENTS|date=April 28, 1993|website=Deseret News}}</ref> |rev4 = ''The Encyclopedia of Popular Music'' |rev4score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref name="CL">{{cite book |last1=Larkin |first1=Colin |title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |date=2006 |publisher=MUZE |volume=5 |page=516}}</ref> |rev5 = ''Entertainment Weekly'' |rev5score = D<ref name="auto1">{{Cite web|url=https://ew.com/article/1993/04/09/75-less-fat/|title=75% Less Fat|website=EW.com}}</ref> |rev6 = ''MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide'' |rev6score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref>{{cite book |title=MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide |date=1999 |publisher=Visible Ink Press |page=936}}</ref> |rev7 = ''Orlando Sentinel'' |rev7score = {{rating|4|4}}<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-xpm-1993-03-26-9303240073-story.html|title=CHRIS MARS|website=OrlandoSentinel.com}}</ref> }} '''''75% Less Fat''''' is the second album by Chris Mars.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/chris-mars-mn0000091321/biography|title=Chris Mars | Biography & History|website=AllMusic}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZHP-r9-eqdAC&q=75%25+Less+Fat+chris+mars+1993&pg=PA593|title=Alternative Rock|first=Dave|last=Thompson|date=November 16, 2000|publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation|isbn=9780879306076|via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.spin.com/2013/06/hold-my-life-bob-stinson-the-replacements-interview-june-1993/|title=Hold My Life: Bob Stinson's Regrets|date=June 13, 2013|website=Spin}}</ref> The title refers to the rejection of his former bandmates in The Replacements.
==Production== Though Mars performs primarily as a one-man band, as he did on his previous album ''Horseshoes and Hand Grenades'', his work also contains J.D. Foster on bass and clarinet.<ref name="auto"/>
==Critical reception== AllMusic wrote: "Unlike most one-man projects, ''75% Less Fat'' actually rocks -- there's a loose, unhinged feeling to the rhythms that make the music sound like a group effort."<ref name="auto2"/> ''Entertainment Weekly'' called the music "beer-commercial-like riffs and bouncy, generic rhythms that, at best, sound like cheap imitations of [Mars's] own musical past."<ref name="auto1"/> ''Trouser Press'' wrote that the album "may not push the envelope, but it cements an image of Mars as a serious musician with his own vision."<ref>{{cite web |title=Chris Mars |url=https://trouserpress.com/reviews/chris-mars/ |website=Trouser Press |access-date=16 November 2020}}</ref> ''Phoenix New Times'' called it "a well-played, well-produced recording that in the end fails to make any lasting impression."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/music/replacing-the-mats-6425955|title=REPLACING THE MATS|first=Robert|last=Baird|date=April 14, 1993|website=Phoenix New Times}}</ref>
==Track listing== #"Stuck in Rewind" (4:00) #"No Bands" (2:54) #"Weasel" (2:56) #"Public Opinion" (2:22) #"All Figured Out" (3:41) #"Whining Horse" (3:02) #"Car Camping" (3:00) #"Skipping School" (3:06) #"Bullshit Detector" (2:39) #"Candy Liquor" (3:04) #"Demolition" (3:32) #"No More Mud" (2:51) #"Nightcap" (3:06)
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