| The Crew | ||||
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| Released | 1984 | |||
| Genre | Hardcore punk [1] [2] [3] | |||
| Label | BYO [4] | |||
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| AllMusic |   [5] |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [6] |
The Crew is the debut studio album by American hardcore punk band 7 Seconds, released in 1984 by BYO Records. [2] [7] The original LP was released with 18 tracks, and later re-released on compact disc with six live bonus tracks.
The Austin Chronicle called the album a "stone classic," writing that "precious few third wave punk-hardcore outfits have aged as stoically – or as relevantly – as vox/guitar sibling duo Kevin Seconds and Steve Youth." [3] In a retrospective review, Tiny Mix Tapes wrote that the band's sound "is distilled ... to a steady grind of too-pah beats and blender-like three-chord sounds, but it’s the combination of this minimalism and Kevin Seconds’s voice — passionate, melodic, hopeful — that makes you believe everything he says." [8] LA Weekly placed The Crew at #3 on its list of the top twenty hardcore albums in history, writing that "7 Seconds wrote the book on positive hardcore and that book is called The Crew." [1]
All songs written by Kevin Seconds, except for where noted.
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