{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Up in It | type = studio | artist = the Afghan Whigs | cover = Afghan_Whigs_-_Up_in_It.jpg | alt = | released = April 1990 | recorded = | venue = | studio = | genre = * Alternative rock * punk rock<ref name="MusicHound Rock">{{cite book|first= Judy|last= Miller|editor1-first= Gary |editor1-last= Graff |editor2-first= Daniel |editor2-last= Durchholz |year= 1999 |title= MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide |chapter= The Afghan Whigs|publisher= Visible Ink Press |location= Detroit |pages= 12–13}}</ref> * garage rock<ref name="MusicHound Rock"/> * grunge<ref name="MusicHound Rock"/> | length = 45:38 | label = Sub Pop<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.subpop.com/releases/the_afghan_whigs/up_in_it|title=Up In It|website=Sub Pop Records}}</ref> | producer = Jack Endino | prev_title = Big Top Halloween | prev_year = 1988 | next_title = Congregation | next_year = 1992 }} {{Music ratings | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1Score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/up-in-it-mw0000677565|title=Up in It - The Afghan Whigs &#124; Songs, Reviews, Credits &#124; AllMusic|via=www.allmusic.com}}</ref> |rev2 = ''The Encyclopedia of Popular Music'' |rev2score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref name="CL">{{cite book |last1=Larkin |first1=Colin |title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |date=2006 |publisher=MUZE |volume=1 |page=69}}</ref> |rev3 = ''MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide'' |rev3score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref name="MusicHound Rock"/> |rev4 = ''The New Rolling Stone Album Guide'' |rev4score = {{rating|2.5|5}}<ref name="RS">{{cite book |title=The New Rolling Stone Album Guide |date=2004 |publisher=Simon & Schuster |page=9}}</ref> |rev5 = ''Spin Alternative Record Guide'' |rev5score = 4/10<ref name="SP">{{cite book |title=Spin Alternative Record Guide |date=1995 |publisher=Vintage Books |page=9}}</ref> }} '''''Up in It''''' is the second album by the Afghan Whigs, released in 1990 via Sub Pop.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-afghan-whigs-mn0000602859/biography|title=The Afghan Whigs &#124; Biography & History|website=AllMusic}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZHP-r9-eqdAC&dq=up+in+it+afghan+whigs+1990&pg=PA147|title=Alternative Rock|first=Dave|last=Thompson|date=March 1, 2000|publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation|isbn=9780879306076|via=Google Books}}</ref> They were the label's second signing from outside the Pacific Northwest, after the Fluid. <ref>{{Cite web |last=Records |first=Sub Pop |title=The Fluid’s Punch N Judy, Roadmouth, Clear Black Paper, Glue, Overflow, Candy (Live, from Nirvana split), and Tin Top Toy Available Worldwide Today, December 6th. |url=https://www.subpop.com/news/2024/12/06/the_fluids_punch_n_judy_roadmouth_clear_black_paper_glue_overflow_candy_live_from_nirvana_split_and_tin_top_toy_available_worldwide_today_december_6th |access-date=2026-03-16 |website=Sub Pop Records |language=en}}</ref>

==Production== The album was produced by Jack Endino.<ref name="MusicHound Rock"/>

==Critical reception== ''Trouser Press'' wrote: "Typically gauzy Jack Endino production instantly brands ''Up in It'' as a Sub Pop issue. While the increased volume follows suit, the Whigs still wax more lyrical than their thrash’n’burn label contemporaries."<ref name="TP">{{cite web |title=Afghan Whigs |url=https://trouserpress.com/reviews/afghan-whigs/ |website=Trouser Press |access-date=1 March 2021}}</ref> ''The New Rolling Stone Album Guide'' wrote that "thudding production hides the band's latent smarts in sludge."<ref name=RS/> The ''Dallas Observer'' deemed the album "the first indication grunge could be created in a vacuum (i.e., Cincinnati) by four isolated 20-year-olds just as potently as if it were manufactured by a whole slew of Mark Arms."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dallasobserver.com/music/he-stole-the-soul-6403751|title=He stole the soul|first=Gina|last=Arnold|date=May 16, 1996|website=Dallas Observer}}</ref>

==Track listing== All tracks written by Greg Dulli except where noted. #"Retarded" (Dulli, McCollum) – 3:25 #"White Trash Party" – 3:05 #"Hated" – 3:37 #"Southpaw" – 3:20 #"Amphetamines and Coffee" (Kopasz) – 1:55 #"Now We Can Begin" - 2.43 [LP/Cassette version] '''OR''' "Hey Cuz" – 3:49 [CD version] #"You My Flower" – 3:48 #"Son of the South" – 4:12 #"I Know Your Little Secret" – 4:22 #"Big Top Halloween" (Dulli, Curley) – 3:31 [CD version only] #"Sammy" (Dulli, Curley) – 3:15 [CD version only] #"In My Town" (Dulli, Curley) – 2:59 [CD version only] #"I Am the Sticks" – 4:19 [CD version only]

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==External links== *[http://www.summerskiss.com/27/up-in-it/ Album LP/Cassette track listing on the Summer's Kiss website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120306022945/http://www.summerskiss.com/27/up-in-it/ |date=2012-03-06 }} *[http://www.summerskiss.com/63/up-in-it-v2/ Album CD track listing on the Summer's Kiss website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714220808/http://www.summerskiss.com/63/up-in-it-v2/ |date=2014-07-14 }}

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