Hold Your Fire (FireHouse album)

Hold Your Fire is the second studio album by the hard rock band FireHouse. It was released in June 1992. The album spent thirty weeks in the Billboard 200 Top Albums chart peaking at No. 23.^[5]

Hold Your Fire
Studio album by FireHouse
Released	June 16, 1992
Recorded	1991–1992
Genre	Glam metal, heavy metal, hard rock
Length	51:34
Label	Epic
Producer	David Prater
FireHouse chronology
FireHouse (1990) Hold Your Fire (1992) 3 (1995)
Singles from Hold Your Fire
"Reach for the Sky" Released: 1992 "When I Look into Your Eyes" Released: 1992 "Sleeping with You" Released: 1992

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Chicago Tribune	[2]
Christgau's Consumer Guide	C−[3]
Entertainment Weekly	D[4]

The album spawned the singles "Reach for the Sky", "Sleeping with You" and "When I Look into Your Eyes". The album was certified gold by the RIAA in the United States for sales of over 500,000 units.^[6]

The album is also known for having the same snare sound as the one used on Dream Theater's album Images and Words, another album produced by David Prater around the same time.^[7]

Track listing

All songs written by Bill Leverty and C.J. Snare, except where noted.

1. "Reach for the Sky" – 4:47
2. "Rock You Tonight" – 4:35
3. "Sleeping with You" – 3:51
4. "You're Too Bad" – 3:38
5. "When I Look into Your Eyes" – 4:00
6. "Get in Touch" – 5:24
7. "Hold Your Fire" – 3:51
8. "The Meaning of Love" – 4:12
9. "Talk of the Town" – 4:38
10. "Life in the Real World" – 3:36
11. "Mama Didn't Raise No Fool" (Foster, Leverty, Richardson, Snare) – 4:00
12. "Hold the Dream" – 5:02

Personnel

• C.J. Snare – lead vocals, keyboards
• Bill Leverty – guitars
• Perry Richardson – bass guitar
• Michael Foster – drums, percussion

Production

• David Prater – producer
• Michael Caplan – executive producer
• Doug Oberkircher – engineer
• Steve Regina – assistant engineer
• David Prater – mixing
• Doug Oberkircher – mixing
• Vladimir Meller – mastering

Charts

Chart (1992)	Peak position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[8]	180
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[9]	66
Japanese Albums (Oricon)[10]	14
US Billboard 200[11]	32

Certifications

Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
United States (RIAA)[12]	Gold	500,000^
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.