Ragin', Full On

Ragin', Full-On is the first album by American alternative rock band fIREHOSE.[7][8] It was released after the breakup of the influential punk rock band Minutemen due to the death of the guitarist D. Boon.[9] Like all fIREHOSE albums, Ragin', Full On is dedicated to Boon.[10]

Ragin, Full-On
Studio album by
fIREHOSE
Released1986
GenreAlternative rock, art punk, funk rock
Length33:44
LabelSST (079)[1]
ProducerEthan James
FIREHOSE chronology
Ragin, Full-On
(1986)		 If'n
(1987)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Robert ChristgauC+[3]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[4]
MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide[5]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[6]

Production

The band members wrote the songs in various songwriting combinations, some of which included Kira Roessler.[9]

Critical reception

Robert Christgau wrote that "this sound pretty good insofar as it postpunks like the old band and pretty bad insofar as it makes room for Crawford, a moderately hot guitarist whose vocal instincts are as sappy as his lyrics."[3] Trouser Press noted that "first note to last, there’s a prickly, intangible integrity to the band that the restless Boon would have admired."[11] The Rolling Stone Album Guide thought that the album "overcomes its generally spotty writing with impassioned playing."[6]

Track listing
  1. "Brave Captain" (Ed Crawford, Mike Watt)[2]
  2. "Under the Influence of Meat Puppets" (Kira Roessler, Watt)
  3. "It Matters" (Roessler, Watt)
  4. "Chemical Wire" (Watt)
  5. "Another Theory Shot to Shit" (Watt)
  6. "On Your Knees" (Crawford, George Hurley)
  7. "Locked In" (Rossler, Watt)
  8. "The Candle and the Flame" (Crawford, Watt)
  9. "Choose Any Memory" (Crawford)
  10. "Perfect Pairs" (Crawford, Roessler, Watt)
  11. "This..." (Crawford)
  12. "Caroms" (Crawford, Hurley)
  13. "Relatin' Dudes to Jazz" (Roessler, Watt)
  14. "Things Could Turn Around" (Roessler, Watt)

Personnel

References
  1. "fIREHOSE - Ragin' Full On - CD". SST Superstore.
  2. Ragin', Full On at AllMusic
  3. "Robert Christgau: CG: Firehose". www.robertchristgau.com.
  4. Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Volume 3: MUZE. p. 463.CS1 maint: location (link)
  5. MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide. Visible Ink Press. 1999. p. 425.
  6. The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. p. 244.
  7. Earles, Andrew (September 15, 2014). Gimme Indie Rock: 500 Essential American Underground Rock Albums 1981-1996. Voyageur Press. ISBN 9780760346488 – via Google Books.
  8. "Mike Watt on What's Watt". exclaim.ca.
  9. Hillburn, Robert (February 7, 1987). "A Votive 'Ballot' For D. Boon". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved May 15, 2019.
  10. Buckley, Peter (February 14, 2003). The Rough Guide to Rock. Rough Guides. ISBN 9781843531050 – via Google Books.
  11. "fIREHOSE". Trouser Press. Retrieved 14 February 2021.


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