Ourselves

Artist: 7 Seconds
Label: Restless Records
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 018777227629
EAN: 0018777227629
ASIN: B000003BG2

Release Date: 1993-07-01

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Listmania:

What to get and what not to get by 7 Seconds
Old school pop-punk
I'm bored so I made this list
cut the crap poser

Tracks:

Escape And Run
Far Away Friends
the Save Ourselves
If I Abide
Wish I Could Help
Sleep
Sister
Middleground
When One Falls
Some Sort Of Balance
Seven Years

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Customer Reviews:

underground post-hardcore/rock masterpiece.......2004-11-27

This was the band's debut on Restless records.
Great lyrics and music... honestly, I like it even more than Soulforce Revolution which gained more popularity and even
scored in the Billboard 200 :)
Listen to tracks like "Escape and Run" or "Far Away Friends"
and you'll fell in love with this band :)
For fans of Fugazi, Dag Nasty, Rites of Spring...

The audio equivalent of gut wrenching cramps.......2004-01-30

Slightly better than Soulforce revolution, but utterly horrlible as well... See the review of soulforce revolution for the skinny.
Rinsey beat the hell out of this album with his hamfists and called it !@#!#$
That's what Rinsey does

Excellent, early emo from godfathers of straight-edge.......2002-06-18

This was always my favorite 7 Seconds album. Like Dag Nasty and Government Issue, they made a largely unsuccessful leap to the now-defunct Giant label, perhaps in hopes of striking some REM-like charisma with the general buying public. Even with the dated "reverb over everything" production and "straight from the Crate" metal distortion, it still sounds good after all these years, and sounds huge compared to the tiny-sounding _Soulforce Revolution_. The speed-of-light one-two punk jackhammer approach of _The Crew_ has been sacrificed for burgeoning musicality. Steve Youth's snaking, busy bass work is generally quite impressive, and while Troy Mowat's drumming is a bit toned-down, it hasn't lost its power. One-album alum Bobby Adams contributes solid, occasionally-veering-on-epic guitar work (like the opener "Escape and Run"), with a strong aversion to solos. Most impressive are the downright funky "Save Ourselves" (which would fit just as well on _New Wind_) and the simple but amazing instrumental (!) "Sleep." The generic guitar tones and simple harmonies tend to cause the tracks to bleed together, and overall it could have used a bit more sonic diversity like _Soulforce_. But Seconds' sunny-side-up lyrics, toned down somewhat from the band's aggressive straight-edge past and occasionally just this side of cloying, generally strike the right notes. The album takes you out with a rollicking, but lyrically wistful "Seven Years", celebrating past members and past good times, which fades out with the band lightly chanting "If we can walk together, why cant we rock together" over some piercing feedback.

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