The Crew (album)

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The Crew
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Studio album by
7 Seconds
Released1984
Genre Hardcore punk [1] [2] [3]
Label BYO [4]
7 Seconds chronology
The Crew
(1984)		 Walk Together, Rock Together
(1985)
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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.

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Critical reception

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]

Track listing

All songs written by Kevin Seconds, except for where noted.

  1. "Here's Your Warning" - 1:18
  2. "Definite Choice" - 0:55
  3. "Not Just Boys Fun" (Seconds, Steve Youth) - 1:29
  4. "This Is the Angry Pt. 2" - 1:09
  5. "Straight On" - 0:24
  6. "You Lose" - 0:36
  7. "What If There's War in America" - 0:42
  8. "The Crew" - 0:51
  9. "Clenched Fists, Black Eyes" - 1:30
  10. "Colourblind" - 1:42
  11. "Aim to Please" - 1:14
  12. "Boss" (Seconds, Youth) - 0:45
  13. "Young 'Til I Die" - 2:01
  14. "Red and Black" - 0:37
  15. "Die Hard" - 0:57
  16. "I Have a Dream" - 1:00
  17. "Bully" - 1:05
  18. "Trust" - 2:13
  19. "Here's Your Warning" (Live) - 1:35
  20. "Spread" (Live) - 1:21
  21. "I Have a Dream" (Live) - 0:58
  22. "Young 'Til I Die" (Live) - 1:51
  23. "Not Just Boys Fun" (Live) (Seconds, Youth) - 1:26
  24. "Rock Together" (Live) - 2:12

Personnel

References

  1. 1 2 "Top 20 Hardcore Albums in History: Complete List". LA Weekly. August 29, 2013.
  2. 1 2 Blush, Steven; Petros, George (October 19, 2010). American Hardcore (Second Edition): A Tribal History. Feral House. ISBN   9781932595987 – via Google Books.
  3. 1 2 "7 Seconds". www.austinchronicle.com.
  4. ↑ "7 Seconds | Biography & History". AllMusic.
  5. ↑ "The Crew - 7 Seconds | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic" – via www.allmusic.com.
  6. ↑ Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 7. MUZE. p. 356.
  7. ↑ Sherman, Maria (October 11, 2016). "Air Jordans, Hockey and Hardcore: How Punk Embraced Sports". Rolling Stone.
  8. ↑ "DeLorean: 7 Seconds - The Crew (1984)". Tiny Mix Tapes.
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