Pack Up The Cats was released

Encouraged by the unexpected success of As Good as Dead , Island Records greenlit a third album with Local H’s preferred producer, Roy Thomas Baker , along with a larger budget and a promise of no interference. That album, Pack Up the Cats , was a 15-track concept album chronicling the rise and fall of a rock band. Island expected it to be a major success and intended to heavily promote it, with ” All the Kids Are Right ” as its leadoff single. This plan was derailed, however, when Island Records’ parent company, Polygram , was acquired by Universal Music Group . The promotional campaign was canceled and everyone at Island that the band had worked with, including Bosso, were fired or quit. Pack Up The Cats was released September 1, 1998, peaking at number 140 on the Billboard 200 and staying on the chart for only two weeks, despite “All the Kids Are Right” achieving moderate success on MTV . Universal did not release a second single. The album was critically acclaimed and ranked on several best-of year-end lists, and in a retrospective Vulture suggested Pack Up the Cats might have been a landmark album of ’90s rock comparable to Nirvana’s Nevermind or Radiohead ‘s OK Computer had its release been handled differently.