While it may seem to spit in the face of convention this is my favorite #7seconds album. The breakneck tempos of the band's highly regarded earlier works is gone giving way to mid tempo alt-rock. Kevin Seconds (vocals and guitars) had apparently discovered drugs and there's an early nineties hippy vibe to this record. The photo of the bass player is of him hugging a tree for fuck's sake. The album was released in '89 but I didn't buy it until '90. I was expecting more of the posi-punk that was on mix tapes I had heard but listened to these vulnerable songs instead. Upon listening to this again the album sounds super dated. It has a thick layer of 120 Minutes alternative rock sheen. I loved it and still do. The summer before I started college I got a job working as an off-term custodian for a school. It was a lot of scraping gum off desks and refinishing floors. That hot summer I got the worst case of athlete's foot from cleaning the school's locker rooms. It was brutal. After the day's work was done I'd head back to the room I was renting and lay on my sweaty mattress and spray various powders my mom got me on my burning itching dogs. To this day I'm susceptible to the foot fungus. A souvenir from that summer before the cares of the world crept in. This was my soundtrack for that time and while this may all sound gross and unfortunate I had a good time that summer and it was the last care - free one so it'll always be bittersweet. Though to be honest I'd be cool without the athlete's foot shit and just the CD. C'est la vie.
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