7 seconds the crew1/2/2023 “I always say just make it look like ‘The Crew’.” - FAT MIKE (NOFX) It should be a mainstay inside any serious record collection.” - MATT PINFIELD (TV HOST & DJ) “‘The Crew’ is one of the crucial albums documenting the early American Hardcore scene. “7SECONDS is one of my favorite bands of all time” - DENNIS LYXZÉN (REFUSED) I hated the idea that growing up was going to mean forfeiting a sense of joy, freedom and possibility in life.” - SHEPARD FAIREY (ARTIST / ACTIVIST, FOUNDER OF OBEY) “‘Young till I Die’ was probably my favorite song on that album, because I had then, and still have now, a Peter Pan complex. “I first heard ‘The Crew’ not long after it was released and I loved the vibe: short, energetic and passionate” TONY HAWK “7SECONDS’ ‘The Crew’ set the template” - JELLO BIAFRA (DEAD KENNEDYS) The recording quality is rough, but it's easy to hear how the music was groundbreaking for its time and still sounds timeless today.Īnd if you don't believe us that The Crew is a stone cold classic, believe these people: Even three and a half decades later, songs like "Young 'Til I Die," "The Crew," and "Not Just Boys Fun" (which, though 7Seconds were an all-male band, had an anti-sexism message that has also been influential within punk) still rival the more widely-loved bands 7Seconds helped pave the way for. The Crew had a direct impact on the more melodic sides of the NYC youth crew scene and the DC emocore scene, and its influence could be heard in bigger '90s/'00s bands like The Bouncing Souls, H2O, and Rise Against, and indirectly in even bigger bands like Taking Back Sunday and Fall Out Boy. The album stuck to extremely short songs at whiplash-inducing speeds, but Kevin helped make these songs sound genuinely anthemic, and a hearty helping of "whoa-ohs" didn't hurt either. Following some comparatively straightforward early EPs and demos, 7Seconds perfected this sound on their first proper full-length, 1984's The Crew. ![]() Kevin Seconds had a similarly snotty, bratty delivery to the other prominent hardcore bands of the time, and he still wasn't exactly Frank Sinatra, but he could carry a melody and he always made sure 7Seconds' songs were songs you could hum along to. We included The Crew in a list of 15 ’80s punk albums that shaped the ’90s/’00s pop punk boom and said:Ībout 500 miles Northeast of the SoCal hardcore scene was Reno, Nevada band 7Seconds, who took a uniquely melodic approach to hardcore that would change the game forever.
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