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]
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]
