Tinderbox (Stiff Little Fingers album)

Tinderbox is an album by Stiff Little Fingers, released in 1997.[3][4] Steve Grantley played bass on the album.[5]

Tinderbox
Studio album by
Stiff Little Fingers
Released1997
GenrePop punk, alternative rock
Length55:31
LabelAbstract[1]
Stiff Little Fingers chronology
Get A Life
(1994)		 Tinderbox
(1997)		 Hope Street
(1999)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[1]

Critical reception

The Washington Post called the album "hard-hitting," writing that "there's no way it can recapture the impact of the band's '70s work."[6]

AllMusic wrote that "the biggest surprise is a churning, rubber-burning remake of 'The Message', Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five's searing indictment of inner-city misery."[2]

Track listing
  1. "You Never Hear the One That Hits You" (Burns) – 2:53
  2. "(I Could Be) Happy Yesterday" (Burns) – 4:06
  3. "Tinderbox" (Burns) – 3:57
  4. "Dead of Night" (Burns) – 5:20
  5. "The Message" (Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five) – 3:06
  6. "My Ever Changing Moral Stance" (Burns) – 2:48
  7. "Hurricane" (Burns) – 4:25
  8. "You Can Move Mountains" (Burns, Foxton) – 4:16
  9. "A River Flowing" (Burns) – 3:25
  10. "You Don't Believe in Me" (Burns) – 3:24
  11. "In Your Hands" (Burns) – 4:00
  12. "Dust in My Eyes" (Burns, Foxton) – 2:43
  13. "Roaring Boys (Part One)" (Burns) – 4:27
  14. "Roaring Boys (Part Two)" (Burns) – 6:05

Personnel
Stiff Little Fingers

with:

  • Ian McCallum - backing vocals
  • Billy Boy Miskimmin - harmonica
  • Holly Roberts - keyboards
  • Tim Sanders - tenor saxophone
  • Simon Clarke - alto and baritone saxophone
  • Roddy Lorimer - trumpet
  • John Curtis - tin whistle
  • Theresa Heanue - fiddle

References
  1. Larkin, Colin (27 May 2011). "The Encyclopedia of Popular Music". Omnibus Press – via Google Books.
  2. "Tinderbox - Stiff Little Fingers | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic" – via www.allmusic.com.
  3. "Stiff Little Fingers Biography, Songs, & Albums". AllMusic.
  4. "The Jam's and Stiff Little Fingers' Bruce Foxton". MTV News.
  5. Thompson, Dave (28 January 2000). "Alternative Rock". Hal Leonard Corporation – via Google Books.
  6. "STIFF LITTLE FINGERS". The Washington Post. Retrieved 28 January 2022.


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