Willpower (Today Is the Day album) explained

Willpower
Type:Studio
Artist:Today Is the Day
Cover:Today Is the Day Willpower.JPG
Recorded:1994
Studio:White Room Studios, Detroit, Michigan
Genre:
Length:29:36
Label:Amphetamine Reptile
Producer:Steve Austin
Prev Title:Supernova
Prev Year:1993
Next Title:Today Is the Day
Next Year:1996

Willpower is the second studio album by the American band Today Is the Day, released on September 1994 by Amphetamine Reptile Records.[2] The album was recorded just a few months after Steve Austin's father, whom he had not seen for months at the time, died in a violent car crash. A remastered edition of the album was issued in 2007 through the then-newly formed SuperNova Records, which included the track "Execution Style", a rare extra from the Willpower sessions that was previously released on the compilation Dope-Guns-'N-Fucking in the Streets Volume Ten.

A live performance that was recorded during the tour to promote Willpower was released as a DVD via SuperNova, under the title of Willpower Live in 2007.

It is the only album of the band to have been recorded with the same lineup as the prior album.

Reception

Patrick Kennedy of AllMusic awarded the album 4 and a half out of 5 stars, saying, "Though its time signatures are still tricky in a mathematical way, Willpower's greatest strength is its appeal to the human heart through whatever means necessary."

Track listing

Personnel

Adapted from the Willpower liner notes.[3]

Today Is the Day

Production

Release history

RegionDateLabelFormatCatalog
United States1994Amphetamine ReptileCD, CS, LPAMREP 033
GermanyARR 57/354
United States2007SuperNovaCDSNR 001
2010RelapseLPRR 7087
2022SupernovaSNR 052

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Today Is the Day – Willpower [reissue]]. Daley. Sloane. Punknews. January 8, 2008. November 4, 2017.
  2. David . Sprague . Today Is the Day . . 2007 . July 6, 2015.
  3. Willpower . Willpower (Today Is the Day album) . . 1994 . booklet . . Minneapolis, Minnesota.