Earth Crisis (album) explained

Earth Crisis
Type:studio
Artist:Steel Pulse
Cover:Spearthcrisis.jpg
Released:January 1984
Recorded:1983
Studio:Jacobs Studios, Farnham, Surrey; Horizon Studio, Coventry
Genre:Reggae
Length:38:44
Label:Elektra
Producer:Jimmy Haynes, Steel Pulse
Prev Title:True Democracy
Prev Year:1982
Next Title:Babylon the Bandit
Next Year:1986

Earth Crisis is a roots reggae album released by Steel Pulse in January 1984. It is Steel Pulse's fifth studio album. On the album cover are pictures of American President Ronald Reagan, Soviet leader Yuri Andropov, Pope John Paul II, a Ku Klux Klansman, a Vietnamese refugee, and other historical pictures.

Earth Crisis peaked at #154 on The Billboard 200 chart in 1984.

Metalcore band Earth Crisis took their name from this album, because its cover portrayed many of the things they "would stand against", such as the starving African children, the two blocs of the Cold War and Klansmen.[1]

Track listing

All tracks written by David Hinds.

  1. "Steppin' Out" – 4:02
  2. "Tightrope" – 4:10
  3. "Throne of Gold" – 4:25
  4. "Roller Skates" – 4:54
  5. "Earth Crisis" – 4:55
  6. "Bodyguard" – 4:26
  7. "Grab Education" – 6:12
  8. "Wild Goose Chase" – 5:40

Songs

Wild Goose Chase

This song laments the misguided use of technology for purposes which the song's author, David Hinds, views as unnatural, such as in vitro fertilization.

Personnel

Steel Pulse

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Earth Crisis: A Firestorm to Purify (Straight Edge Book Excerpt). 23 November 2017.