Set Your Goals (album)

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Set Your Goals
CIV Set Your Goals.jpg
Studio album by
CIV
ReleasedOctober 1995
Recorded1994 - 1995
Genre Punk rock
Length31:13
Label Lava
Producer Don Fury, Walter Schreifels [1]
CIV chronology
Set Your Goals
(1995)
Thirteen Day Getaway
(1998)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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MusicHound Rock Star full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [3]

Set Your Goals is the debut studio album by the punk rock band CIV. [4] It was released in October 1995 on Lava Records. The album is best known for the hit single "Can't Wait One Minute More."

Contents

Although listed as co-producer in the inlay, Walter Schreifels has indicated that he was the main songwriter for the album (despite not being a member of the band). [5]

"Can't Wait One Minute More" and "Choices Made" were released as music videos.

"Can't Wait One Minute More" features vocals from Lou Koller of Sick Of It All.

The San Francisco Bay-area pop punk/hardcore act Set Your Goals named themselves after this album. [6]

Critical reception

Ira Robbins, in Trouser Press , wrote: "Making the most of clear sound, tight, unfussy playing and a full complement of rhythmic shifts (these guys remember when moshing was a dance tempo, not a slamming catch-all), CIV recycles with detailed dignity." [7]

Track listing

  1. "Set Your Goals" - 1:51
  2. "Do Something" - 1:14
  3. "So Far, So Good... So What" - 2:12
  4. "State of Grace" - 1:00
  5. "Can't Wait One Minute More" - 2:32
  6. "Trust Slips Through Your Hands - 1:13
  7. "Gang Opinion" - 1:29
  8. "Choices Made" - 2:29
  9. "Solid Bond" - 1:34
  10. "Marching Goals" - :33
  11. "United Kids" - 2:19
  12. "Soundtrack for Violence" - :32
  13. "Boring Summer" - 2:47
  14. "Et Tu Brute?" - 2:17
  15. "All Twisted" (Kraut cover) - 2:31
  16. "Don't Got to Prove It" - 1:57
  17. "Blessed" - 2:30 (A track hidden in "Don't Got to Prove It")

Personnel

CIV
Guests
Production
Artwork

Charts

Album - Billboard (United States)

YearChartPosition
1995Heatseekers11

Singles - Billboard (United States)

YearSingleChartPosition
1995"Can't Wait One Minute More"Modern Rock Tracks21

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