Category 5 is the fifth album of the rock

Rock music

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 band FireHouse. It was originally released in 1998 in Japan

Japan

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 and in 1999 in the United States

United States

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 by Lightyear Records.

The album featured a more direct contribution from bassist

Bassist

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 Perry Richardson and ironically, it was his last studio album with the band.

Track listing

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

1. "Can't Stop the Pain" (Foster, Leverty, Richardson) - 5:37
2. "Acid Rain" (Effler, Richardson, Rogers) - 3:27
3. "Bringing Me Down" - 4:39
4. "Dream" (Richardson,Rogers) - 4:13
5. "Get Ready" (Foster, Leverty, Richardson, Snare) - 4:18
6. "If It Changes" - 4:56
7. "The Day, the Week, and the Weather" (Effler, Richardson, Rogers) - 5:27
8. "The Nights Were Young" - 4:18
9. "Have Mercy" (Foster, Leverty, Richardson, Snare) - 4:36
10. "I'd Do Anything" - 5:45
11. "Arrow Through My Heart" (Effler, Richardson, Rogers) - 4:11
12. "Life Goes On" - 10:24 (includes the hidden "Get To Know You", song by bassist Perry Richardson)

Personnel

• C.J. Snare - vocals, keyboards
  Keyboard instrument
  A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
  
  
• Bill Leverty
  Bill Leverty
  William G. Leverty II is an American guitarist, who is a founding and current member of the American rock band FireHouse. Leverty, along with vocalist C.J. Snare, was responsible for writing many of the band's hit songs including "Don't Treat Me Bad"...
  
   - guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
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• Michael Foster
  Michael Foster (musician)
  Michael Foster is the drummer of rock band FireHouse.-Biography:Michael Foster was born in Richmond, Virginia to James Earnest and Patricia Valenti Foster. He has a younger brother called Daniel Sean. Since he was a kid, his parents gave him pots and pans to beat on. Later on, he would receive a...
  
   - drums
  Drum kit
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
  
  
• Perry Richardson
  Perry Richardson
  Perry Richardson is the former bassist of rock band FireHouse until 1999.Richardson met C. J. Snare in North Carolina and started a band called Max Warrior. Eventually they met with Bill Leverty and Michael Foster...
  
   - bass guitar
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....