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Have Another Beer With Fear

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This album is a lot of fun, there were some songs that made me laugh out loud. It's tight, its loud, and honestly I appreciate some of redneck pride lyrics. Some you could certainly call offensive (best example probably being Ubermenschen, with Honor and Obey and Meat & Potatos running a close tie for second though for completely different reasons) but since I regularly spin up bands like Slayer, Morbid Angel, Suffocation, The Crown, and Emperor, lyrics that express my moral views aren't even close to a requirement anymore. And like at least 2 of the above mentioned bands, just because Lee Ving sings about it doesn't necessarily mean he believes it. What I heard before I bought this record is that Ving was a blues and country musician and singer who stumbled on the early punk scene in California and didn't like it at first. A few months later he changed his mind and formed Fear which is short for "Put the Fear of God into Punks". The way he went about doing this was to sing in perfect harmony (sometimes), play tight (sometimes), write offensive right wing lyrics, drink a whole lot of beer, and generally try to do to punks what they tried to do to society. The formula works here. Does he really believe what he writes? He might believe some of it like "Legalize Drugs" (NOT a good right wing topic, at least not with the country-music crowd), but far as I know he's never let on what he really thinks except to say the gay bashing was schtick he started because it sold tickets back when he played crowds full of macho-jock types. Anyway I liked this enough that I'll be picking up "The Record" and "American Beer" in the future.

One of the best American bands of all time! Maybe my favorite FEAR album, this and the first are just a MUST for any beer drinking American! Lee Ving is awesome.

This is Fear's third and loudest album. As far as the reviewer a few slots below me, the lyrics are very clear, and my hearing is not the best! This one is on par with the first two, but didn't sell at all because they went 10 years between releases. As a full-fledged contributing member of the Green Party, I must take some issue with Lee's lyrics! This guy is a classic Texas right-wing redneck! All the classic anti-Liberal diatribes are here, including references to 'fags' and 'Liberal morons'. However, the music is good enough where one can take the lyrics with a grain of salt (or a can of beer!). The drummer is American Indian, and the guitarist is black, so I can forgive him somewhat! Definitely worth getting.

I'm really happy I picked up this album, being a Fear fan but having only listened to their first album (and some of their seconds songs that were on the Live album) for a looooong time. USA is a great song followed by Back In The Battle Again, nice way to start the album. Plus you get 16 tracks here not the typical 12 and all the tracks are cool, I dont think theres a slow one in the bunch! I'm curious about the music snobs on Amazon I see that post critical stuff about a punk band like Fear (among other bands, I see the same stuff repeated a lot). Why do you need to understand the lyrics? You know I was thinking about that subject and I bet I understand less than HALF the lyrics to ALL the rock songs I've listened to. A lot of times its better you do NOT understand the lyrics because than the words can be construed to mean what you want them to mean. I looked up some lyrics from bands like Elvis Costello (known for his great lyrics) and The Stranglers after listening to these songs for like over a decade and I was dissapointed that the lyrics were not what I thought they were! Anyway, what about songs that you definetly understand the words anyway? I understand Stairway To Heaven and its a great song, but the freaking lyrics don't make any sense when you actually think about them! Sometimes the best lyrics are those that leave it to your imagination, Talk Talk is a band like that, James Brown another. But anyway with that said I understand the lyrics here enough to know what their talking about! Plus someone here said all the songs sound alike, hello....., its punk rock! Fear, for a punk band, has the most diverse range of any punk band I've heard, and the songs DO NOT all sound the same! I also have no problem with them singing more songs about beer!
Go to a place in the world where there is NO beer and a song like Free Beer is awesome! Great album, get it!

I believe I'll have another beer is the best song ever written. The rest of the album is pretty mediocre, but seriously, who cares?

For a punk band that hasn't released an album for 23 yrs , the 3rd Fear album is freakin awesome. "Bad Day" , " Back In The Battle Again" are my favorite songs , but all the songs about beer do get old after awhile. Great choruses.

What can I say? The fact that the amazing Lee ving has kept the Fear name alive for 22 years makes him either a musical icon or a has-been who can't let go of the past. Either way, Ving is awesom and fear was one of the best punk bands around in the '80s. No punk vocalist could touch Ving's singing ability coupled with his intensity. "The Record" and "More beer" are two esentials for any punk library. I'm afraid though that Fear's third offering released in 1995 doesn't even come close to the first two. First off, (and I never thought I'd say this), there are too many beer songs - four to be exact. It seems like ving is going for the drunk crowd more than the punk crowd after he saw how many fans fear gained after "more beer" was released. The best of the beer songs is "I believe I'll Have another beer." everyone knows the slogan, but ving turns it into a great chorus in this song. Too bad the rest of the lyrics are mixed down too far to comprehend them. Actually this is the case with the whole CD. The choruses stand out, but you really have to strain to hear the verses. Also, too many of the songs sound the same. All of the songs fall into one of two tempos and since you can't hear the lyrics enough to tell one song from the other the whole Cd seems to blend together into one song. One of Fear's most outstanding characteristics that separated them from most of the punk pack was their ability to come up with many different types of songs, "let's Have a War", "I Am a Doctor", "Hey", etc. That characteristic is not present on this CD. It's not a bad CD by any stretch of the imagination - just kind of lack-luster compared to the gems they released in the 80s.