7 Seconds

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Name = 7 Seconds

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Img_capt = (L to R) Youth, Mowat, Adams, Seconds
Landscape = Yes
Background = group_or_band
Origin = Reno, Nevada, USA
Genre = Punk rock
Hardcore Punk
Straight Edge
Youth Crew
Years_active = 1980–present
Label = SideOneDummy Records
URL = [http://www.7seconds.com/ Official website]
Current_members = Kevin Seconds
Steve Youth
Troy Mowat
Bobby Adams

7 Seconds is a hardcore punk band from Reno, Nevada. Formed in 1980 by brothers Kevin Seconds and Steve Youth, they played their first show on March 2, 1980. They continue to write, record, and tour to this day. Their most recent album is "Take It Back, Take It On, Take It Over!". Today 7 Seconds remains as one the most long-lived hardcore punk band in history. Over the years, the band has been lumped in with other bands as "straight edge" or "posi-core" but members of 7 Seconds have never embraced either label for themselves, their music or their lyrics.

Biography

7 Seconds inspired the Straight Edge Youth Crew movement in the 80's Hardcore scene.

They started releasing some poorly recorded, but highly engergetic EP's, most of them are re-released later as "alt.music.hardcore" and "Old School" compilation CDs.

They also appeared on the 1985 hardcore compilation "Cleanse the Bacteria", in addition to numerous other compilations, such as "Not So Quiet On the Western Front," "Something to Believe In," and "Another Shot from Bracken."

The first full-length LP "The Crew" was recorded in 1983 and released by the BYO Records, as its successor - classic hardcore EP "Walk Together Rock Together". With the "New Wind" LP the band dramatically expanded its sound and style with audible elements of pop punk, emocore and indie rock. Sequent LPs moved deeper into the mainstream territory with its proto-emo and U2 like sound. 7 Seconds continued with musical experiments and returned to the old school hardcore territory just in 1999 with "Good to Go" album.

Origins of name

In the February, 2005 issue of AMP magazine, in an article titled, "7 Seconds: 25 Years of Our Core," Kevin Seconds explained how the band's name originated:

“We were big fans of The Dils, they had this EP, 198 Seconds of The Dils and I was so in love with punk rock that I would just write album titles on my clothes. This was still when Steve and I lived with my mom. We had this desk in this room we shared and I wrote ‘197 seconds of The Dils’, I miswrote the title. Over time, everything else faded, but the 7 Seconds part was there, and I circled it, I thought it looked cool.”

Discography

Demos

*"1980" (cassette), 1980
*"Drastic Measures" (cassette), 1980
*"Socially Fucked Up" (cassette), 1981
*"Three Chord Politics" (cassette), 1981

7" EPs

*"Skins, Brains and Guts" (Alternative Tentacles, 1982)
*"Committed For Life" (Squirtdown, 1983)
*"Blasts From the Past" (Positive Force, 1985)
*"Happy Rain/Naked" (Eating Blur, 1993)
*"Split With Kill Your Idols" (SideOneDummy, 2004)

Albums

*"The Crew" (Better Youth Organization, 1984)
*" Walk Together, Rock Together" (Positive Force/BYO, 1985)
*"New Wind" (Positive Force/BYO, 1986)
*"Praise [four-song EP] (Positive Force/BYO, 1986)
*"Live: One Plus One" (Positive Force/Giant, 1987)
*" Ourselves" (Restless, 1988)
*" Soulforce Revolution" (Restless, 1989); #153 on the 1989 Billboard 200
*"Old School" (Headhunter/Cargo, 1991)
*"Out the Shizzy" (Headhunter/Cargo, 1993)
*"alt.music.hardcore" (Headhunter/Cargo, 1995)
*"The Music, The Message" (Immortal/Epic, 1995)
*"Good To Go" (SideOneDummy, 1999)
*" Scream Real Loud...Live!" (SideOneDummy, 2000)
*" Take It Back, Take It On, Take It Over! (SideOneDummy, 2005)

Compilations

*"Not So Quiet On The Western Front" (MRR/Alternative Tentacles, 1982)
*"We Got Power: Party Or Go Home" (Mystic, 1983)
*"Something To Believe In" (BYO, 1984)
*"Nuke Your Dink" (Positive Force, 1984)
*"Cleanse The Bacteria" (Pusmort, 1985)
*"Another Shot For Bracken" (Positive Force, 1986)
*"Four Bands That Could Change The World" (Gasatanka, 1987)
*"Flipside Vinyl Fanzine, vol. 3" (Flipside, 1987)
*"Human Polity" (One World Communications, 1993)
*"The Song Retains The Name, vol. 2" (Safe House, 1993)
*"Ten Years Later" (Bossa Nova, 1997)
*"Short Music For Short People" (Fat Wreck Chords, 1999)
*"Old School Punk Vol.1" (Walk Together, Rock Together)

External links

* [http://7seconds.com/ 7seconds.com] – 7 Seconds official site
* [http://www.myspace.com/7seconds Myspace] – 7 Seconds MySpace
* [http://soulforce.hit.bg/them/7seconds.html OutTheShizzy] – unofficial 7 Seconds website with discography, lyrics, band bios and forums
* [http://www.operationphoenixrecords.com/suburbanvoice7seconds.html Suburban Voice Interview] – 7 Seconds interview from 1984
* [http://www.operationphoenixrecords.com/flipside7seconds.html Flipside Interview] – 7 Seconds interview from 1986