Fill Your Boots

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Fill Your Boots
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Studio album by
Released1990
Genre Hardcore punk [1] [2]
Label Meantime Records [3]
Leatherface chronology
Cherry Knowle
(1989)
Fill Your Boots
(1990)
Mush
(1991)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Fill Your Boots is the second full-length album by the English punk band Leatherface. [5] [6]

Contents

Critical reception

Trouser Press deemed the album both "dispensable" and "fine," writing that it added "nothing especially exciting to the genre." [1] The Encyclopedia of Popular Music wrote that "fast and abrasive tracks ... demonstrated [Leatherface's] grip of hardcore dynamics and pop sensibilities." [2]

Track listing

  1. "New York State" - 3:53
  2. "Razorblades and Aspirin" - 2:30
  3. "Speak in Tongues" - 3:19
  4. "Fate" - 3:02
  5. "Peasant in Paradise" - 3:12
  6. "The Bastards Can't Dance" - 3:53
  7. "Our Father" - 3:14
  8. "Leatherface" - 2:50
  9. "All I Wanted" - 3:04
  10. "Here Comes the Judge" - 4:54
  11. "In the Ghetto" - 2:54
  12. "Candle in the Wind" - 2:13

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References

  1. 1 2 "Leatherface". Trouser Press. Retrieved 11 August 2020.
  2. 1 2 3 Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 5. MUZE. p. 135.
  3. "The Quietus | Features | Noel's Straight Hedge: Punk And Hardcore For July Reviewed". The Quietus.
  4. "Fill Your Boots - Leatherface | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic" via www.allmusic.com.
  5. "Leatherface | Biography & History". AllMusic.
  6. Mercer, Mick (23 June 1990). "Leatherface". Melody Maker. 66 (25): 41.