{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Strong Reaction | type = album | artist = Pegboy | cover = Pegboy - Strong Reaction.jpg | alt = | released = September 15, 1991 | recorded = June 1991 | venue = | studio = CRC (Chicago) | genre = Punk rock | length = 27:13 | label = Quarterstick<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.touchandgorecords.com/bands/album.php?id=49|title=Strong Reaction | Pegboy | Touch and Go / Quarterstick Records|website=www.touchandgorecords.com}}</ref> | producer = Iain Burgess | prev_title = Three-Chord Monte | prev_year = 1990 | next_title = Fore | next_year = 1993 }} {{Music ratings |rev1 = AllMusic |rev1score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref name="allmusic">{{cite web |first=Richard |last=Foss |url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r15006|pure_url=yes}}|title=Strong Reaction |publisher=Allmusic |date= |accessdate=February 10, 2013}}</ref> }}
'''''Strong Reaction''''' is the debut album of Pegboy.<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/pegboy-mn0000255704/biography|title=Pegboy | Biography & History|website=AllMusic}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1991-10-25-9104060146-story.html|title=PegboyPersonnel: John Haggerty, guitar; Larry Damore, vocals;...|website=chicagotribune.com}}</ref> It was released in 1991 through Quarterstick Records.<ref name="auto"/>
==Critical reception== ''Trouser Press'' wrote that "quibbles about the occasionally melodramatic lyrics, in which the passage into adulthood dissolves into tragedy, are obliterated by the ferocious attack."<ref name="TP">{{cite web |title=Pegboy |url=https://trouserpress.com/reviews/pegboy/ |website=Trouser Press |access-date=15 December 2020}}</ref>
In a retrospective review, ''The A.V. Club'' wrote: "Skirting grunge, pop-punk, post-hardcore, and emo—all of which were erupting at the time—''Strong Reaction'' has aged with a rugged grace that puts most of its contemporaries to shame."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.avclub.com/pegboy-strong-reaction-1798212314|title=Pegboy: Strong Reaction|website=Music}}</ref>
== Track listing == {{track listing | all_writing = Pegboy | title1 = Strong Reaction | length1 = 3:57 | title2 = Still Uneasy | length2 = 2:41 | title3 = Not What I Want | length3 = 2:31 | title4 = What to Do | length4 = 2:50 | title5 = Locomotivelung | length5 = 2:41 | title6 = Superstar | length6 = 2:24 | title7 = Field of Darkness | length7 = 2:58 | title8 = Time Again | length8 = 3:01 | title9 = Believe | length9 = 2:45 | title10 = Hardlight | length10 = 1:25 | title11 = [untitled] | length11 = 0:34 }} {{track listing | headline = CD bonus tracks | title12 = Through My Fingers | length12 = 4:03 | title13 = My Youth | length13 = 2:43 | title14 = Fade Away | length14 = 3:34 | title15 = Method | length15 = 3:45 }}
== Personnel == ;Pegboy *Larry Damore – lead vocals, guitar *Joe Haggerty – drums *John Haggerty – guitar *Steve Saylors – bass guitar, backing vocals ;Production and additional personnel *Iain Burgess – production, engineering *Michael Roberts – photography *Chuck Uchida – engineering
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== External links == * {{Discogs master |master=43043 |name=Strong Reaction |type=album}}
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