The Crack

The Crack

Infobox Album |
Name = The Crack
Type = Album
Artist = The Ruts


Released = 1979
Recorded = |??
Genre = Punk rock
Length = 54:34
Label = |Virgin
Producer = Mick Glossop & The Ruts, Bob Sargeant
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:lb4uak5k5m3m~T1 link]
Last album =
This album = "The Crack"
(1979)
Next album = "Grin & Bear It"
(1980)

The Crack is The Ruts first album, released in 1979 and containing the UK hit singles: "Babylon's Burning" (No. 7 in the UK chart in June 1979) and "Something That I Said" (No. 29 in September 1979) The white-reggae-ish "Jah War" which was written in the aftermath of the Southall unrest and the over-use of force by the Metropolitan Police Service's Special Patrol Group in 1979 was also released as a single but didn't make the UK chart.

The cover picture shows the members of the group (from left to right Malcolm Owen, Paul Fox, Dave Ruffy and Segs - who is perusing a copy of "Exchange & Mart") seated on a large sofa, around them are some of their contemporaries such as Rat Scabies and Captain Sensible of The Damned (top right corner), Jimmy Pursey of Sham 69 (bottom right), while Peter Cook and Dudley Moore are standing behind Malcolm, John Peel appears to be doing something to a schoolgirl (in uniform) with a bar of chocolate on the left hand side, Jimi Hendrix looks on from the right, the wives and girlfriends of the band members appear in various poses, as does the band's roadie Mannah (seen from the back) who assisted in writing the song "S.U.S" which deals with the vagrancy act, widely used by Londons Metropolitan Police Service in the late 1970s. The astronomer Patrick Moore looks on somewhat disapprovingly from the left.

Track listing

All tracks composed by The Ruts (Paul Fox, Malcolm Owen, Dave Ruffy, John Jennings)

# "Babylon's Burning"
# "Dope For Guns"
# "S.U.S."
# "Something That I Said"
# "You're Just A...."
# "It Was Cold"
# "Savage Circle"
# "Jah War"
# "Criminal Mind"
# "Backbiter"
# "Out Of Order"
# "Human Punk" (live at The Marquee, London, 19 July 1979)
# "Give Youth A Chance" - CD Bonus Track
# "I Ain't Sofisticated" - CD Bonus Track
# "The Crack" - CD Bonus Track

Personnel:

* Malcolm Owen - vocals
* Paul Fox - guitar, organ
* John "Segs" Jennings - bass, piano on "Jah War"
* Dave Ruffy - drums
* Richard Mannah - backing vocals on "S.U.S" & "Criminal Mind"
* Mick Glossop - synthesizer on "It Was Cold"
* Gary Barnacle - saxophone
* Luke Tunney - trumpet

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