Supriya Ghosh (Editor)

Raygun...Naked Raygun

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
Released
  
1990

Raygun...Naked Raygun(1990)
  
Free Shit!(2001)

Release date
  
1990

Genre
  
Punk rock

Length
  
48:36

Artist
  
Naked Raygun

Label
  
Quarterstick Records

Raygun...Naked Raygun httpsuploadwikimediaorgwikipediaenthumb0

Producer
  
Keith Auerbach, Naked Raygun

Similar
  
Naked Raygun albums, Punk rock albums

Raygun...Naked Raygun is the fifth album by Chicago post-hardcore band Naked Raygun, released in 1990 through Caroline Records. The album was recorded at Chicago Trax and was co-produced by Keith Harbacher and the band. It was the band's first album with their new guitarist Bill Stephens, who had replaced John Haggerty. This was the last album by the band before they broke up in 1992.

Contents

Personnel

Naked Raygun
  • Jeff Pezzati – vocals
  • Pierre Kezdy – bass guitar
  • Eric Spicer – drums
  • Bill Stephens – guitar
    • Production and additional personnel
  • Keith Auerbach – production
  • Marc Harris – photography
  • Naked Raygun – production
  • Mike Saenz – illustrations
  • Kevin Weppner – alto saxophone on "Holding You"
  • Mars Williams – tenor saxophone on "Holding You"

    • Reception

  • "The band's fifth album sounds like the culmination of some of the ideas explored on Jettison and Understand?. The trick is to maintain the original hard edge, and on Raygun...Naked Raygun the band pulls it off. Pierre Kezdy's bass sounds like a power tool and Eric Spicer excavates a groove with his explosive drumming, while new guitarist Bill Stephens adds tonal color. As usual, vocalist Jeff Pezzati delivers the angst without histrionics." (Greg Kot, Chicago Tribune)
  • "Bill Stephens joined and the fresh blood resulted in one last, stellar album, 1990's Raygun...Naked Raygun" (Jim DeRogatis, Chicago Sun-Times)
  • "This is fast and hard enough that the band's hardcore past is never in doubt, but the emphasis is on infectious shout-along rockers in the Brit-punk football-cheer tradition. All four members are songwriters, and have produced a solid set of hard-edged wallopers." (Mark Jenkins, The Washington Post)
  • "Without Haggerty' s presence, Raygun is dry, forever tripping on its own feet. The passion and cross-cutting tension of early Naked Raygun records don't make it on to Raygun." (Bob Gendron, Allmusic)
  • "Though the band rejects the hardcore tag as too limiting, its new Raygun...Naked Raygun album remains true to supersonic form and promises an earsplitting assault when the band appears Wednesday night at the Cannibal Club." (Austin American-Statesman)

    • Songs

    1Home2:53
    2Fever Island2:39
    3The Grind3:49

    References

    Raygun...Naked Raygun Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


    Similar Topics