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Description: "I just realized early on that I wasn't much of a tough guy...I had anger and I had this desire to destroy stuff, but I also knew that I was really tight with my mom and I watched her go through so much just to keep our family together....It was important to sort of come to terms with my own sensitivity...and just, just kind of keep maintaing the humanity..."--Kevin Seconds Promo tee for the first full-length album, Crew--another classic in the pantheon of hardcore punk. Arguably the original "emo" punk band, 7 Seconds weren't afraid to write songs that dealt with human sensitivity and emotion. Minor Threat and Dag Nasty were both great too, but those bands were more prone to dealing with negative subject matter: songs like "Look Back and Laugh, "What Now?" and "Betray" all dealt with the precarity and dissolution of relationships; meanwhile, 7 Seconds had songs like "Trust" and "Not Just Boy's Fun"--songs that prioritized integrity and inclusion over what seemed "cool" at the time. I know it aint cool to say this now/But I can't help the way I feel inside/Around you I can be the way I am. The punk movement was never monolithic, and it took some time for certain agreed-upon values and ethical standards to take hold. The 1980s, as some of us recall, just wasn't a very tolerant period. Props to the Beasties for issuing a formal apology for all the homophobic/misogynistic lyrics on License to Ill, belated as it was (roughly 13 years, although in fairness, Adam Yauch dealt with it in a verse on "Sure Shot," some six years prior). Credit where credit is due, but some bands simply never owned up to their intolerance; homophobia continues to haunt the Bad Brains, for example, but 7 seconds were on point from the beginning: A woman's place, the kitchen, on her back/It's time to change that attitude, and quick. That was 1984, two years before License to Ill and five years before Quickness, the Bad Brains album containing the shameful track "Don't Blow Bubbles" (google it if you're unfamiliar). So while the songs on The Crew may not seem all that radical by today's standard, in the mid-80s, so far as hardcore is concerned, they were nothing short of ground-breaking. So that's my little spiel on the boys from Reno. The shirt, as you can see, is pretty damn dope as well.

Price: 69 USD

Location: Westwood, Massachusetts

End Time: 2024-09-03T01:07:38.000Z

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