Call to Arms (Sick of It All album)

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Call to Arms
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Studio album by
ReleasedFebruary 23, 1999
RecordedBig House (New York City)
Genre Heavy hardcore [1]
Length32:55
Label Fat Wreck Chords [2]
Producer Sick of It All & John Seymour
Sick of It All chronology
Built to Last
(1997)
Call to Arms
(1999)
Yours Truly
(2000)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [3]
Chronicles of Chaos 9/10 [4]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [5]
Pitchfork 9.0/10 [6]

Call to Arms is the fifth full-length studio album from American hardcore punk band Sick of It All. [7] It was the band's first full-length release on Fat Wreck Chords and follows the 1998 EP, Potential for a Fall.

Contents

Critical reception

The A.V. Club called the album "packed with all the sturm und drang of its previous releases, bearing the hallmarks of virtually all good hardcore: breakneck speed, heavy guitar riffs, and shouting that would be unintelligible were it not for the lyric sheet." [7] CMJ New Music Report wrote that the songs "come from the gut — anthems in the truest sense, flexing championship muscles that have been pumped up by working class bravado and street punk pride." [8]

Track listing

All tracks written by Sick of It All.

  1. "Let Go" 1:09
  2. "Call to Arms" 1:48
  3. "Potential for a Fall" 2:28
  4. "Falter" 1:13
  5. "The Future Is Mine" 2:04
  6. "Guilty" 1:32
  7. "Falling Apart" 2:03
  8. "Sanctuary" 1:55
  9. "Morally Confused" 1:50
  10. "Hindsight" 2:27
  11. "Martin" 2:46
  12. "Pass the Buck" 1:27
  13. "Quiet Man" 2:40
  14. "Drastic" 1:23
  15. "(Just A) Patsy" 6:10*

*at the end of the album, there is a hidden track called "Greezy Wheezy". The band has also played it several times live and the video of it can be seen on the movie Sick of It All: The Story So Far .

Credits

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References

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