Cat Scratch Fever Songs Ranked

Cat Scratch Fever is the third studio album by American rock musician Ted Nugent. It was released on May 13, 1977, by Epic Records. Vocalist Derek St. Holmes, who had left the band during the recording of the album Free-for-All, had come back for touring in 1976 and was again the principal lead singer on this album. A commercial success, the album has been certified multi-platinum by the RIAA. Nugent released his next album, Double Live Gonzo!, the following year. Cat Scratch Fever received a mostly positive review from Greg Prato of AllMusic, who remarked that it “matched the focused ferocity of Nugent’s excellent 1975 debut”, proclaiming it a “first-rate set of brash hard rockers”. Here are all of Cat Scratch Fever songs ranked.

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10. Out of Control

“Ted Nugent’s Cat Scratch Fever is my favorite album from him. A great classic rocker from start to finish. The famous title track is my least favorite song on here, but that one is still good with an awesome riff.”

9. Home Bound

“Nugent’s “Home Bound” has a lot more energy and grittiness to it, though it forgoes the edge of the four songs preceding it n the album, which almost all rely–rightfully so–on hard-rocking riffs and Nugent’s dynamic, slashing guitar work.”

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8. Fist Fightin’ Son of a Gun

“One of Ted Nugent’s more famous efforts, Cat Scratch Fever is a good, solid rock n’ roll album. And, if the entire album showed the strength of the first four tracks, it would be a masterpiece. Unfortunately, it suffers from a weak middle, before “Fist Fightin’ Son of a Gun” picks up the pace again near the end of the album.”

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7. Live It Up

“Things tend to fall away a bit from there though, no real stinkers but nothing particularly memorable for the right reasons. ‘Live It Up’ is probable memorable for its Bo Diddley beat, which has been done a thousand times before and since.”

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6. A Thousand Knives

“A Thousand Knives,” just a killer song that’s filled with great melodic lead guitar! This song is my 2nd TOP favorite on this album. This is as excellent… as EXCELLENT can get. One hell of a Dynamite song.”

5. Death by Misadventure

“If I remember right, this song tells about Brian Jones drowning in the summer of 1969. He had been a member of the Rolling Stones, before he died. I like THIS song quite well…the guitar work is real good.”

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4. Sweet Sally

“Sweet Sally,” just another catchy riff laden song that I’ll take to the grave. Ted’s singing is decent on this album and of course his guitar playing is smokin as usual

3. Wang Dang Sweet Poontang

“Regardless of the cover, this was Ted’s most successful studio outing perhaps due to the success of the title track as a single. It’s typically stupid but catchy and memorable. Sad to say the same thing about ‘Wang Dang Sweet Poontang’ but you wonder whether he was running out of things to write about when he penned that one. Yet, there are several similarly titled songs throughout his catalogue.”

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2. Workin’ Hard, Playin’ Hard

“The meaning to this song is rather similar to “Live It Up”. This is another Happy Go Lucky song. I LOVE this tune very much & it TIES w/ “Live It Up” as my TOP favorite song.”

1. Cat Scratch Fever

“Cat Scratch Fever is a fantastic album and along with his self-titled debut are Ted Nugent’s best solo albums. Although he was better known for his live shows, wicked guitar playing, and wildman image, Ted wrote some of the best hard rock songs of the late 70’s and several of them are featured here.”