Built to Last (Sick of It All album) explained

Built to Last
Type:studio
Artist:Sick of It All
Cover:soia_builttolast.jpg
Released:February 11, 1997[1]
Recorded:1996 at Sound City Studios, Van Nuys, California, Entourage Studios, Los Angeles, California and Normandy Sound, Warren, Rhode Island
Length:39:15
Label:East West Records
Equal Vision Records[2]
Producer:GGGarth
Sick of It All
Prev Title:Live in a World Full of Hate
Prev Year:1995
Next Title:Call to Arms
Next Year:1999

Built to Last is the fourth studio album by American band Sick of It All, released in 1997.[3] [4] Equal Vision Records held the exclusive rights to release it on vinyl.

The album peaked at No. 32 on the Billboard Heatseekers Albums chart.[5]

Production

Built to Last was the result of a year's work for Sick of It All, with pre-production beginning in late 1995/early 1996. The recording took place at Normandy Sound, in Warren, Rhode Island (where their first three albums had been recorded), and in two studios in California.

Critical reception

The Washington Post wrote that "the music and attitude are entirely predictable, but the 'hey-hey-heys' are rather charming."[6] Entertainment Weekly wrote that the band manages "to overcome the genre’s bark-and-lunge cliches simply because they’re so archetypal; these guys can actually make you feel the fury behind a song called 'Us Vs. Them'."[7]

Track listing

  1. "Good Lookin' Out"  - 1:53
  2. "Built to Last"  - 2:01
  3. "Closer"  - 2:56
  4. "One Step Ahead"  - 2:07
  5. "Us vs. Them"  - 3:04
  6. "Laughingstock"  - 2:42
  7. "Don't Follow"  - 2:02
  8. "Nice"  - 2:41
  9. "Busted"  - 1:37
  10. "Burn 'em Down"  - 2:55
  11. "End the Era"  - 3:05
  12. "Chip Away"  - 2:02
  13. "Too Late"  - 2:00
  14. "Jungle"  - 8:10

"Jungle" ends at 2:54, with silence from 2:55 to 5:53; at 5:54, a voice says "Oh c'mon, hurry up, ya old hag." There is silence again from 5:58 to 6:59. A hidden song, sung in English and Spanish, starts at 7:00 (unofficially titled "Culo Cagado").

Credits

Notes and References

  1. Popular Uprisings. Billboard. January 11, 1997. Nielsen Business Media, Inc.. Google Books.
  2. Web site: Built To Last. Equal Vision Records.
  3. Web site: Sick of It All | Biography & History. AllMusic.
  4. Book: Blush, Steven. New York Rock: From the Rise of The Velvet Underground to the Fall of CBGB. October 4, 2016. Macmillan. 9781250083616. Google Books.
  5. Sick of It All. Billboard.
  6. Web site: SICK OF IT ALL: CHRONIC ADOLESCENCE. Mark. Jenkins. February 28, 1997. www.washingtonpost.com.
  7. Web site: Built to Last. EW.com.