{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Cha Cha Damore | type = album | artist = Pegboy | cover = Pegboy - Cha Cha Damore.jpg | alt = | released = October 14, 1997 | recorded = | venue = | studio = | genre = Punk rock | length = 29:14 | label = Quarterstick<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.touchandgorecords.com/bands/album.php?id=53|title=Cha-Cha Damore | Pegboy | Touch and Go / Quarterstick Records|website=www.touchandgorecords.com}}</ref> | producer = Steve Albini<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/pegboy-mn0000255704/biography|title=Pegboy | Biography & History|website=AllMusic}}</ref> | prev_title = Earwig | prev_year = 1994 | next_title = | next_year = }} {{Music ratings |rev1 = AllMusic |rev1score = {{rating|2|5}}<ref name="allmusic">{{cite web |first=Jack |last=Rabid |url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r317391|pure_url=yes}}|title=Cha Cha Damore |publisher=AllMusic |date= |accessdate=February 10, 2013}}</ref> }}
'''''Cha Cha Damore''''' is the third album by Pegboy.<ref name="auto"/> It was released on October 14, 1997, through Quarterstick Records.
==Critical reception== ''Ox-Fanzine'' wrote that "the Pegboy variant of melodic guitar punk deliberately aims to avoid catchy tralala schemes."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ox-fanzine.de/review/cha-cha-damore-cd-24217|title=Review|website=www.ox-fanzine.de}}</ref> The ''Wisconsin State Journal'' wrote that "on each successive recording, the Chicago band's upbeat, elemental pop punk rock sounds ever more invigorating."<ref>{{cite journal |title=Pegboy will invigorate O'Cayz |journal=Wisconsin State Journal |date=December 4, 1997 |page=6}}</ref> The ''Chicago Reader'' called ''Cha Cha Damore'' the band's best album.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/touch-and-go-records-25th-anniversary-celebration-at-the-10th-annual-hideout-block-party/Content?oid=923112|title=Touch and Go Records' 25th Anniversary Celebration at the 10th Annual Hideout Block Party|first=Liz Armstrong, Jessica Hopper, Monica Kendrick, Peter margasak, J. Niimi, Miles|last=Raymer|website=Chicago Reader}}</ref>
== Track listing == {{track listing | all_writing = Pegboy, except "Surrender" by Rick Nielsen | title1 = Dangerwood | length1 = 2:07 | title2 = Can't Give | length2 = 2:35 | title3 = You Fight Like a Little Girl | length3 = 2:46 | title4 = Dangermare | length4 = 2:39 | title5 = Dog, Dog | length5 = 3:26 | title6 = Liberace Hat Trick | length6 = 2:46 | title7 = Dangerace | length7 = 1:51 | title8 = Hey, Look, I'm a Cowboy | length8 = 2:45 | title9 = In the Pantry of the Mountain King | length9 = 2:50 | title10 = Surrender | length10 = 3:41 | title11 = Planet Porno | length11 = 1:48 }}
== Personnel == ;Pegboy *Larry Damore – vocals *Joe Haggerty – drums *John Haggerty – guitar *Pierre Kezdy – bass guitar ;Production and additional personnel *Steve Albini – production, engineering
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== External links == * {{Discogs master |master=213593 |name=Cha Cha Damore |type=album}}
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