Surviving You, Always | ||||
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Released | 1984 | |||
Recorded | September 1983 at Total Access Recording Studios, Redondo Beach, CA | |||
Genre | Post-hardcore | |||
Length | 38:59 | |||
Label | SST (024) | |||
Producer | Saccharine Trust, Spot | |||
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Surviving You, Always is the second album [2] and first LP by post-hardcore band Saccharine Trust, released in 1984 through SST. Guitarist Joe Baiza was exploring Jazz at the time at the influence was reflected on the album. [2] Much of the lyrical content contains biblical imagery. [3] The album features a cover of "Peace Frog" by The Doors [4] a song repeated on Saccharine Trust's live compilation Past Lives . [3]
Post-hardcore is a punk rock music genre that maintains the aggression and intensity of hardcore punk but emphasizes a greater degree of creative expression initially inspired by post-punk and noise rock. Like post-punk, the term has been applied to a broad constellation of groups. Post-hardcore began in the 1980s with bands like Hüsker Dü, and Minutemen. The genre expanded in the 1980s and 1990s with releases by bands from cities that had established hardcore scenes, such as Fugazi from Washington, D.C. as well as groups such as Big Black and Jawbox that stuck closer to post-hardcore's noise rock roots. In the 2000s, post-hardcore achieved mainstream success with the popularity of bands like My Chemical Romance, AFI, Underoath, Hawthorne Heights, The Used, At the Drive-In and Senses Fail. In the 2010s, post-hardcore bands like Sleeping with Sirens and Pierce the Veil achieved success and bands like Title Fight and La Dispute experienced underground popularity.
Saccharine Trust is an American punk rock band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 1980 by singer Jack Brewer and guitarist Joe Baiza. The band would frequently perform with SST labelmates Minutemen and Black Flag. However, Baiza described Saccharine Trust as the "black sheep" of the SST roster. Drummer Rob Holzman appeared on their 1981 debut Paganicons but left the band to play in Slovenly, replaced by drummer Tony Cicero. After a ten-year hiatus circa 1986 to 1996, the band re-formed and began performing around the West Coast.
SST Records is an American independent record label formed in 1978 in Long Beach, California by musician Greg Ginn. The company was formed in 1966 by Ginn at age 12 as Solid State Tuners, a small business through which he sold electronics equipment. Ginn repurposed the company as a record label to release material by his band Black Flag.
The cover is based on the photo by photography student Robert Wiles of Evelyn McHale, who committed suicide by jumping from the 86th floor Observation Deck of the Empire State Building on May 1, 1947.
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The Empire State Building is a 102-story Art Deco skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. It was designed by Shreve, Lamb & Harmon and completed in 1931. The building has a roof height of 1,250 feet (380 m) and stands a total of 1,454 feet (443.2 m) tall, including its antenna. Its name is derived from "Empire State", the nickname of New York, which is of unknown origin. The Empire State Building stood as the world's tallest building for nearly 40 years until the completion of the World Trade Center's North Tower in Lower Manhattan in late-1970. Following the September 11 attacks in 2001, it was again the tallest building in New York City until the new One World Trade Center surpassed it while under construction in April 2012. As of 2019, the building is the seventh-tallest building in New York City, the sixth-tallest completed skyscraper in the United States, and the 45th-tallest in the world. It is also the sixth-tallest freestanding structure in the Americas.
Side one | |||
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No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
1. | "The Giver Takes" | Baiza, Brewer and Cicero | 1:59 |
2. | "Lot's Seed" | Baiza, Brewer, Cicero and Hodson | 1:52 |
3. | "Sunk" | Baiza and Brewer | 1:35 |
4. | "Speak" | Baiza, Brewer and Cicero | 3:27 |
5. | "The House, The System, The Concrete" | Baiza, Brewer, Cicero and Hodson | 2:15 |
6. | "Remnants" | Baiza and Brewer | 3:42 |
7. | "The Cat.Cracker" | Baiza, Brewer and Cicero | 4:55 |
Side two | |||
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No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
1. | "Our Discovery" | 6:00 | |
2. | "A Good Night's Bleeding" | 1:46 | |
3. | "Craving the Center" | 1:04 | |
4. | "Yhwh on Acid" | 6:04 | |
5. | "Peace Frog" | Krieger and Morrison | 5:03 |
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