Hot Boxing

{{for|the smoking practice|Hotboxing}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Hot Boxing | type = studio | artist = Magnapop | cover = Magnapop - Hot Boxing.jpg | alt = A close-up on the face of a woman who is holding a cigarette in her right hand and exhaling smoke. The photos is tinted red and has "magnapop" written in blue along the top and "hot boxing" written in yellow toward the center. | released = {{Start date|1994|7|5}} | recorded = August 1993 | venue = | studio = *Pedernales (Spicewood, Texas) *Bosstown (Atlanta, Georgia) | genre = Pop punk, pop rock, power pop | length = {{Duration|m=41|s=30}} | language = English | label = Play It Again Sam/Priority | producer = Bob Mould | prev_title = Big Bright Cherry | prev_year = 1994 | next_title = Fire All Your Guns at Once | next_year = 1996 | misc = {{Singles | name = Hot Boxing | type = studio | single1 = Slowly, Slowly | single1date = 1994 | single2 = Lay It Down | single2date = 1994 }} }} {{Music ratings | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1Score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref name="allmusic">{{cite web |url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r203815|pure_url=yes}} |title=Magnapop > ''Hot Boxing'' |last=Demalon |first=Tom |website=AllMusic |accessdate=2009-06-17}}</ref> | rev2 = ''Billboard'' | rev2Score = very favorable<ref name="billboard">{{Citation |last1=Verna |first1=Paul |last2=Gillen |first2=Marilyn A. |last3=Cronin |first3=Peter |date=1994-06-23 |title=Album Reviews |periodical=Billboard |location=United States |publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc. |volume=106 |issue=30 |page=58 |issn=0006-2510}}</ref> | rev3 = Robert Christgau | rev3Score = {{Rating-Christgau|Neither}}<ref name="Christgau">{{cite web |last=Christgau |first=Robert |url=http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?id=Magnapop |title=Magnapop |publisher=Robert Christgau |date= |accessdate= }}</ref> | rev4 = ''Rolling Stone'' | rev4Score = favorable<ref name="rollingstone">{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/artists/magnapop/albums/album/184872/review/5946097/hot_boxing |title=Music reviews - Magnapop ''Hot Boxing'' |last=Corio |first=Paul |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=1994-12-29 |accessdate=2009-06-17}}{{dead link|date=August 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> | rev5 = ''Sun Zoom Spark'' | rev5Score = favorable<ref name="sunzoomspark">''Sun Zoom Spark'' Volume 2, issue 3 (June 1994), review by Dermot Hack</ref> | noprose = yes }} '''''Hot Boxing''''' is the second studio album by Magnapop, released in 1994. "Lay It Down" and "Slowly, Slowly" were released as singles. Music videos were created for "Lay It Down", "Slowly, Slowly", and "Texas". Having Priority release the album was a radical departure from the label's earlier emphasis on rap.<ref name="priority">{{Citation |last=Morris |first=Chris |date=1994-07-30 |title=Declaration of Independents: Priority Goes Magnapop; BOC Remade |periodical=Billboard |location=United States |publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc. |volume=106 |issue=31 |page=49 |issn=0006-2510}}</ref>

==Track listing== All songs written by Linda Hopper and Ruthie Morris. ;Side one #"Slowly, Slowly" – 3:35 #"Texas" – 4:01 #"Lay It Down" – 2:59 #"Here It Comes" – 2:48 #"Piece of Cake" – 2:49 #"Free Mud" – 2:00 #"Leo" – 2:37

;Side two #"The Crush" – 3:22 #"Ride" – 2:30 #"In the Way" – 2:32 #"Idiot Song" – 1:55 #"Get It Right" – 1:52 #"Emergency" – 4:00 #"Skinburns" – 4:24

;Special edition bonus tracks #<li value="15">"Merry" (Acoustic) – 3:26 #"Pretty Awful" – 2:24

==Personnel== ;Magnapop *Linda Hopper – lead vocals *David McNair – drums *Ruthie Morris – guitar, backing vocals *Shannon Mulvaney – bass guitar

;Production staff *David Collins – remastering at A&M Studios *Valerie Raimonde – design *Ruth Leitman – art direction, photography *Magnapop – production on "Merry" (Acoustic) *Bob Mould – production *Jim Wilson – engineering

==Release history== The album was initially released on Priority Records in the United States and Play It Again Sam in the United Kingdom, with the Japanese edition published by King; the special edition with bonus tracks was published in The Netherlands by Play It Again Sam.

{|class="wikitable" !Region !Date !Label !Format !Catalog |- |rowspan="2"|United States |rowspan="5"|{{Dts|1994|7|5}} |rowspan="2"|Priority |Compact Disc |P2 53909 |- |cassette tape |P4 53909 |- |rowspan="2"|Europe |rowspan="3"|Play It Again Sam |Compact Disc |450.0251.20 - BIAS 251 CD |- |cassette tape |450.0521.50 - BIAS 251 MC |- |The Netherlands |LP |450.0251.10 - BIAS 251 LP |- |Japan |{{Dts|1994}} |King |Compact Disc |KICP-408 |- |The Netherlands |{{Dts|1994}} |Play It Again Sam |Compact Disc |450.0251.26 - BIAS 251 CDX† |- |Spain |{{Dts|1994}} |Fonomusic |LP |88.2210 |- |} †Special edition with bonus tracks

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== *[http://www.magnapop.com/news/ Official site] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081017085658/http://www.magnapop.com/news/ |date=2008-10-17 }} *{{MusicBrainz release group|id=7aa4420c-de64-3fd0-a854-15fc8bbe7c34}} *[http://www.discogs.com/Magnapop-Hot-Boxing/master/95127 ''Hot Boxing''] at Discogs

Category:1994 albums Category:Albums produced by Bob Mould Category:King Records (Japan) albums Category:Magnapop albums Category:PIAS Recordings albums Category:Priority Records albums