Cream Premiere: Hear Raging Fire's 'Beware of a Man With...

Raging Fire was one of the groups who kept Music City's Rock Block bumping from the post-punk days through the first Bush administration. Their song "Everything Is Roses" was chosen to open City Without a Subway , WRVU's seminal 1985 compilation of local artists, but their appeal spread far and wide: After touring the country in opening slots with The Cramps, The Replacements and others, a 1988 CMJ poll put them in the same boat as The Pixies as one of the best unsigned bands.