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Raygun...Naked Raygun
Raygun...Naked Raygun is the fifth album by Chicago post-hardcore
Raygun...Naked Raygun
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.[2] This was the
last album by the band before they broke up in 1992.[3]

Contents
Track listing
Personnel
Reception Studio album by Naked Raygun
References
Released 1990
External links
Genre Punk rock
Length 48:36
Track listing Label Caroline
Producer Keith Auerbach, Naked
No. Title Writer(s) Length
1. "Home" Pierre Kezdy 2:53 Raygun
2. "Fever Island" Jeff Pezzati, Eric 2:39 Naked Raygun chronology
Spicer, Bill Understand? Raygun...Naked Free
Stephens
(1989) Raygun Shit!
3. "The Grind" Jeff Pezzati 3:49 (1990) (2001)
4. "Jazz Gone Bad" Jeff Pezzati 4:27
5. "Prepare to Die" Pierre Kezdy 2:51
Professional ratings
6. "The Promise" Bill Stephens 2:21
7. "Holding You" Pierre Kezdy, Jeff 5:13 Review scores
Pezzati
8. "Strange Days" Pierre Kezdy 3:19 Source Rating

9. "In My Head" Jeff Pezzati 3:54 Allmusic [1]

10. "Camarilla" Eric Spicer 3:35

11. "Terminal" Jeff Pezzati, Bill 5:24
Stephens
1999 CD re-issue bonus tracks
No. Title Writer(s) Length
12. "Last Drink" Nic Austin 2:32
13. "Love Battery" Howard Devoto, Pete Shelley 2:17
14. "Running Free" Steve Diggle 3:22

Personnel
Naked Raygun

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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)[4]
"Bill Stephens joined and the fresh blood resulted in one last, stellar album, 1990's Raygun...Naked Raygun" (Jim
DeRogatis, Chicago Sun-Times)[5]
"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)[6]
"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)[1]
"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)[7]

References
1. Gendron, Bob. "Raygun...Naked Raygun" (https://www.allmusic.com/album/r13681). Allmusic. Retrieved
February 12, 2013.
2. Caro, Mark (October 19, 1990). "Naked Raygun fires off new album with new guitarist" (https://pqasb.pqarchiver.c
om/chicagotribune/access/28760578.html?dids=28760578:28760578&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&
date=Oct+19%2C+1990&author=Mark+Caro&pub=Chicago+Tribune+%28pre-1997+Fulltext%29&desc=Naked+R
aygun+fires+off+new+album+with+new+guitarist&pqatl=google). Chicago Tribune. Retrieved March 15, 2013.
3. Austen, Jake (December 29, 2008). "Naked Raygun - House of Blues; Fri 2, Sat 3" (http://timeoutchicago.com/mu
sic-nightlife/music/61153/naked-raygun). Time Out Chicago. Retrieved March 15, 2013.
4. Kot, Greg (November 8, 1990). "Made in Chicago Naked Raygun's 5th, Pegboy's 1st top the good stuff from local
talent" (https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/28772039.html?dids=28772039:28772039&FMT=AB
S&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Nov+08%2C+1990&author=Greg+Kot%2C+Rock+music+critic&pub=Chic
ago+Tribune+%28pre-1997+Fulltext%29&desc=Made+in+Chicago+Naked+Raygun%27s+5th%2C+Pegboy%27s
+1st+top+the+good+stuff+from+local+talent&pqatl=google). Chicago Tribune. Retrieved March 15, 2013.
5. DeRogatis, Jim (August 8, 1999). "Happiness is a warm Raygun" (http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?
p_product=CSTB&p_theme=cstb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB42428E
5BDF289&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM). Chicago
Sun-Times. Retrieved March 15, 2013.
6. Jenkins, Mark (December 7, 1990). "Post-Punk Merges With Roots Rock" (https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingt
onpost/access/72634694.html?dids=72634694:72634694&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Dec+

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07%2C+1990&author=Mark+Jenkins&pub=The+Washington+Post+%28pre-1997+Fulltext%29&desc=Post-Punk
+Merges+With+Roots+Rock&pqatl=google). The Washington Post. Retrieved March 15, 2013.
7. "Beaver Nelson lets his music speak for itself" (http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=AASB&
p_theme=aasb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EAD8C1FB4AA6F2C&p_field
_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM). Austin American-
Statesman. March 12, 1991. Retrieved March 15, 2013.

External links
Raygun...Naked Raygun (https://www.discogs.com/master/42654) at Discogs (list of releases)

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