Just Look Around

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Just Look Around
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Studio album by
Released1992
RecordedNormandy Sound (Warren, Rhode Island)
Genre Hardcore punk [1]
Length29:44
Label Combat, Relativity [2]
Producer Sick of It All
Sick of It All chronology
We Stand Alone
(1991)
Just Look Around
(1992)
Scratch the Surface
(1994)

Just Look Around is the second full-length album by American band Sick of It All, released in 1992. [3] It is the follow-up to the band's first album, Blood, Sweat and No Tears (1989). [4] "What's Goin' On" laments gun violence. [5]

Track listing

  1. "We Want the Truth" – 2:55 [6]
  2. "Locomotive" – 2:12
  3. "The Pain Strikes" – 3:06
  4. "Shut Me Out" – 2:12
  5. "What's Goin' On" – 2:10
  6. "Never Measure Up" – 1:37
  7. "Just Look Around" – 2:41
  8. "Violent Generation" – 1:32
  9. "The Shield" – 2:37
  10. "Now It's Gone" – 2:10
  11. "We Stand Alone" – 2:44
  12. "Will We Survive" – 1:32
  13. "Indust." – 2:03

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