More Beer

More Beer
Studio album by Fear
Released	1985
Recorded	1983–1984
Genre	Hardcore punk
Length	27:14
Label	Restless[1]
Producer	Lee Ving
Fear chronology
The Record (1982) More Beer (1985) Live...For The Record (1991)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[3]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[4]

More Beer is the second studio album by Fear, released in 1985 (see 1985 in music).[5][6] Frontman Lee Ving spent over a year producing the album.

Critical reception

The Encyclopedia of Popular Music wrote that More Beer "repeated the debut album's formula, with occasional stylistic variation but little else to recommend it."[3] Trouser Press wrote that the album "belch[es] forth a hops-drenched worldview that could only offend the most humorless knee-jerk liberal — plenty of whom had infiltrated the hardcore movement by the time of the album’s release."[7]

Track listing

All songs by Lee Ving, except where noted.

1. The Mouth Don't Stop (The Trouble with Women Is) (Philo Cramer) – 2:20
2. Responsibility (Spit Stix) – 2:06
3. More Beer – 3:42
4. Hey – 0:42
5. Strangulation - 2:27
6. I Am a Doctor (Cramer) – 2:37
7. Have a Beer with Fear – 1:33
8. Bomb the Russians – 0:50
9. Welcome to the Dust Ward – 3:30
10. Null Detector – 1:48
11. Waiting for the Meat – 3:52

The CD reissue includes the original recordings of "I Love Livin' in the City" and "Now You're Dead" from the band's first single as bonus tracks, but omits the song "Strangulation."

2020 Rerelease

All songs by Ving, except where noted. CD 1

1. The Mouth Don't Stop (The Trouble with Women Is) (Cramer) – 2:20
2. Responsibility (Stix) – 2:06
3. More Beer – 3:42
4. Hey – 0:42
5. Strangulation - 2:27
6. I Am a Doctor (Cramer) – 2:37
7. Have a Beer with Fear – 1:33
8. Bomb the Russians – 0:50
9. Welcome to the Dust Ward – 3:30
10. Null Detector – 1:48
11. Waiting for the Meat – 3:52
12. I Am A Doctor (Alternate Version) (Cramer) - 2:35
13. Acid Rain - 1:22
14. Hey (Rough Mix) - 0:42
15. Waiting For The Meat (Rough Mix) - 0:44
16. Bomb The Russians (Rough Mix) - 0:53
17. Strangulation (Rough Mix) - 2:30
18. The Mouth Don't Stop (The Trouble With Women Is) (Rough Mix) (Cramer) - 2:09
19. Responsibility (Rough Mix) (Stix) - 1:42
20. I Am A Doctor (Rough Mix) (Cramer) - 2:36
21. Welcome To The Dust Ward (Rough Mix) - 2:47
22. Null Detector (Rough Mix) - 1:47
23. Chicken Song (Alternate Version) - 0:44

CD 2 - 2020 Remixes

1. The Mouth Don't Stop (The Trouble With Women Is) (Cramer) - 2:08
2. Responsibility (Stix) - 2:07
3. More Beer - 2:54
4. Hey - 0:43
5. Strangulation - 2:30
6. I Am A Doctor (Cramer) - 2:37
7. Have A Beer With Fear - 1:40
8. Bomb The Russians - 0:50
9. Welcome To The Dust Ward - 2:49
10. Null Detector - 1:22
11. Waiting For The Meat - 0:48

Digital versions add the song "Abooga Matches" after track 11 on CD 1 and remixes of tracks "Abooga Matches" and "Chicken Song" after tracks 7 and 9 on CD 2

Personnel

• Lee Ving: lead vocals, rhythm guitar, harmonica
• Philo Cramer: lead guitar, backing vocals
• Lorenzo Buhne: bass
• Spit Stix: drums

In other media

The opening track, "The Mouth Don't Stop (The Trouble with Women Is)," is included on the 2013 soundtrack for Grand Theft Auto V as part of the playlist for the in-game radio station Channel X.

References

1. Popoff, Martin (September 8, 2009). Goldmine Record Album Price Guide. Penguin. ISBN 9781440229169 – via Google Books.
2. More Beer at AllMusic
3. Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 3. MUZE. p. 412.
4. The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. p. 241.
5. "The Fear Factor". Los Angeles Times. March 31, 1999.
6. Blush, Steven; Petros, George (October 19, 2010). American Hardcore (Second Edition): A Tribal History. Feral House. ISBN 9781932595987 – via Google Books.
7. "Fear". Trouser Press. Retrieved 2 August 2020.