{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Understand? | type = album | artist = Naked Raygun | cover = Naked Raygun - Understand.jpg | alt = | released = 1989 | recorded = Tanglewood, Brookfield, Illinois | venue = | studio = | genre = Punk rock<ref name=wpost/> | length = 39:05 | label = Caroline | producer = Larry Sturm, Naked Raygun | prev_title = Jettison | prev_year = 1988 | next_title = Raygun...Naked Raygun | next_year = 1990 }} '''''Understand?''''' is the fourth studio album by Chicago post-hardcore band Naked Raygun, released in 1989 through Caroline Records.<ref name="wpost">{{cite web |last=Jenkins |first=Mark |date=August 11, 1989 |title=Trying Hard to Make Us 'Understand' |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1989/08/11/trying-hard-to-make-us-understand/3a5534bc-6a26-4693-9b31-a81d88e1e446/ |accessdate=2025-04-29 |work=The Washington Post |quote="NO, I WILL never follow," vows Naked Raygun's Jeff Pezzati on "Never Follow," the Ramones-like song that leads off side two of the Chicago quartet's latest, "Understand?}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Heim |first1=Chris |title=Second String |work=Chicago Tribune |date=28 Apr 1989 |department=Friday |page=88}}</ref> "Hip Swingin'" is about the United States involving itself in the affairs of South American countries.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Wenrich |first1=Doug |title=Powerful 'Raygun' hits town this week – All ages show scheduled at Chameleon |work=Lancaster New Era |date=October 18, 1990 |page=Z9}}</ref>
==Critical reception== {{Music ratings |rev1 = AllMusic |rev1score = {{rating|2|5}}<ref name="allmusic">{{cite web |first=Bob |last=Gendron |url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r13683|pure_url=yes}}|title=Understand? |website=AllMusic |date= |accessdate=February 12, 2013}}</ref> |rev2 = ''Chicago Tribune'' |rev2score = {{rating|3|4}}<ref name="CT">{{cite news |last1=Kot |first1=Greg |title=Recordings |work=Chicago Tribune |date=27 Apr 1989 |page=15A}}</ref> }} The ''Chicago Tribune'' wrote that "slam-dance rhythms and shout-from-the-rooftops choruses again predominate."<ref name=CT/> ''Trouser Press'' called the album "a compelling array of martial chants and supercharged rockers."<ref>{{cite web |title=Naked Raygun |url=https://trouserpress.com/reviews/naked-raygun/ |website=Trouser Press |access-date=4 April 2023}}</ref>
== Track listing == {{track listing | title1 = Treason | writer1 = John Haggerty, Pierre Kezdy | length1 = 4:23 | title2 = Hips Swingin' | writer2 = Jeff Pezzati | length2 = 2:47 | title3 = Understand? | writer3 = John Haggerty | length3 = 2:30 | title4 = Entrapment | writer4 = Jeff Pezzati | length4 = 2:45 | title5 = Bughouse | writer5 = Pierre Kezdy | length5 = 3:11 | title6 = Wonder Beer | writer6 = John Haggerty, Eric Spicer | length6 = 2:58 | title7 = Never Follow | writer7 = John Haggerty | length7 = 2:16 | title8 = Too Much of You | writer8 = Jeff Pezzati | length8 = 1:49 | title9 = Vagabond Dog | writer9 = Pierre Kezdy | length9 = 3:30 | title10 = O.K. Wait | writer10 = Pierre Kezdy | length10 = 2:17 | title11 = The Sniper Song | writer11 = Eric Spicer | length11 = 1:35 | title12 = Which Side You're On | writer12 = Jeff Pezzati | length12 = 2:43 }} {{track listing | headline = 1999 CD re-issue bonus tracks | title13 = Mr. Gridlock | writer13 = Jeff Pezzati | length13 = 3:08 | title14 = I Don't Know | writer14 = John Haggerty, Jeff Pezzati | length14 = 3:13 }}
== Personnel == ;Naked Raygun *John Haggerty – guitar *Pierre Kezdy – bass guitar *Jeff Pezzati – vocals *Eric Spicer – drums ;Production and additional personnel *Phil Hale – illustrations *Marc Harris – photography *Ellie Hughes – design *Tom Hughes – design *Naked Raygun – production *Larry Sturm – production
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