Crack Attic

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Crack Attic
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Released1994
Recorded1975–1981
Genre Rock
Length76:15
Label Renaissance

Crack Attic is a compilation of songs from the first five studio albums by Crack the Sky. It draws most heavily from their 1975 debut and 1976 follow-up, with more than half of the tracks here taken from those two releases.

A compilation album comprises tracks, which may be previously released or unreleased, usually from several separate recordings by either one or several performers. If by one artist, then generally the tracks were not originally intended for release together as a single work, but may be collected together as a greatest hits album or box set. If from several performers, there may be a theme, topic, time period, or genre which links the tracks, or they may have been intended for release as a single work—such as a tribute album. When the tracks are by the same recording artist, the album may be referred to as a retrospective album or an anthology.

Crack the Sky band

Crack the Sky is an American progressive rock band formed in Weirton, West Virginia in the early 1970s. In 1975, Rolling Stone declared their first album "debut album of the year", and in 1978, Rolling Stone Record Guide compared them to Steely Dan; their first three albums charted on the Billboard 200. The band has never achieved great success outside the Baltimore area. Despite this, they continue to release albums and perform to a small but devoted fan base to this day.

Contents

Track listing

All tracks written by John Palumbo, except where noted.

No.TitleOriginal AlbumLength
1."Hold On" Crack the Sky 3:00
2."Surf City"Crack the Sky3:54
3."She's a Dancer"Crack the Sky3:53
4."Mind Baby"Crack the Sky4:31
5."Ice"Crack the Sky4:37
6."We Want Mine" Animal Notes 4:51
7."Maybe I Can Fool Everybody (Tonight)"Animal Notes5:56
8."Rangers at Midnight"Animal Notes7:34
9."Invaders from Mars"Animal Notes3:30
10."Nuclear Apathy" Safety in Numbers 8:31
11."Long Nights"Safety in Numbers3:56
12."Lighten Up McGraw" (Rob Stevens, Rick Witkowski, Joe Macre)Safety in Numbers5:08
13."White Music" White Music 4:12
14."Hot Razors in My Heart"White Music4:48
15."Poptown"White Music3:48
16."Flamingo Prelude/Too Nice for That" Photoflamingo 4:06

Personnel

The band

The bass guitar is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, except with a longer neck and scale length, and typically four to six strings or courses.

Backing vocalist singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists

Backing vocalists or backup singers are singers who provide vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists. In some cases, a backing vocalist may sing alone as a lead-in to the main vocalist's entry or to sing a counter-melody. Backing vocalists are used in a broad range of popular music, traditional music and world music styles.

Guitar fretted string instrument

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings. It is typically played with both hands by strumming or plucking the strings with either a guitar pick or the finger(s)/fingernails of one hand, while simultaneously fretting with the fingers of the other hand. The sound of the vibrating strings is projected either acoustically, by means of the hollow chamber of the guitar, or through an electrical amplifier and a speaker.

Additional musicians

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