| 75% Less Fat | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Chris Mars |
| Cover: | 75 percent Less Fat (album).jpg |
| Released: | 1993 |
| Recorded: | 1992 |
| Genre: | Power pop[1] |
| Length: | 40:13 |
| Label: | Smash |
| Producer: | Chris Mars[2] |
| Prev Title: | Horseshoes and Hand Grenades |
| Prev Year: | 1992 |
| Next Title: | Tenterhooks |
| Next Year: | 1995 |
75% Less Fat is the second album by Chris Mars.[3] [4] [5] The title refers to the rejection of his former bandmates in The Replacements.
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.
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." 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." 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."[6] Phoenix New Times called it "a well-played, well-produced recording that in the end fails to make any lasting impression."[7]