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This might be the best 7 Seconds record — Committed For Life. The recordings is the perfect rough and tumble early 80’s HC sound, and not all clean and polished like their later lps. The songs are some career bests, a couple were even rerecorded later on, but were never quite as good. It’s something about the band trying to be super tight and melodic, but not quite getting there all the way. Committed For Life, Drug Control, This Is Angry are classic mixes of british melodic oi/punk tendencies with Minor Threat’s delivery. Just fast humable tunes, and not anything close to pop punk. Love the sleeve on this too with the cartoon of the punks and skins and dayglo colors.
I don’t have a lot to say about 7 seconds, other than, they kinda went down hill from here. I still like everything up to (not including) New Wind, but the DIY vibe/sound of their first 2 EPs and some of the comp tracks just satisfies me more in some way.
There’s later pressings of this but the original is on Squirtdown (as I recall).
(no homo)
yeah, Squirtdown pressings were the original ones. I think this one came a little later on based on the color of the cover. Black ink on red cover was 1st press. I forget the other variations after that. This one may be 3rd or 4th? Dope record nonetheless.