Cro-Mags

"Age of Quarrel/Best Wishes"

  1. "We Gotta Know" (3:23)
  2. "World Peace" (2:12)
  3. "Show You No Mercy" (1:57)
  4. "Malfunction" (3:42)
  5. "Street Justice" (1:33)
  6. "Survival of the Streets" (1:06)
  7. "Seekers of the Truth" (4:02)
  8. "It's the Limit" (1:43)
  9. "Hard Times" (1:40)
  10. "By Myself" (2:34)
  11. "Don't Tread on Me" (1:19)
  12. "Face the Facts" (1:40)
  13. "Do Unto Others" (1:49)
  14. "Life of My Own" (2:52)
  15. "Signs of the Times" (2:03)
  16. "Death Camps" (5:22)
  17. "Days of Confusion" (2:19)
  18. "The Only One" (4:55)
  19. "Down, But Not Out" (3:59)
  20. "Crush the Demoniac" (3:56)
  21. "Fugitive" (4:40)
  22. "Then and Now" (3:12)
  23. "Age of Quarrel" (4:45)

Usually I really like it when 2 complete albums get reissued on a single CD, but this one pisses me off. Why? Because the dumbass record company didn't use the original artwork, and instead has a stupid picture of the band on the cover. Sure, there are tiny little black & white thumbnails for ordering t-shirts (and don't you just HATE that advertizing that comes with CD booklets? I've noticed it's always the smaller labels too.) I'm not even gonna bother scanning & posting the new cover here out of protest. I kept my crappy vinyl copy solely for the cool artwork, and heck the record inside makes for a good beerstein coaster...

Oh, nearly forgot to talk about the music. The "Age of Quarrel" songs (tracks 1-15) are thrash-ish hardcore, I wasn't fond of it when it first came out a decade ago but today they sound great. On "Best Wishes" (tracks 16-23) they crossed over to full thrash, and EXCELLENT thrash at that. The song "Fugitive" is best played full blast on the car stereo, racing down the open highway at 110 MPH with all four windows open.

"Alpha - Omega"

  1. "See the Signs" (4:06)
  2. "Eyes of Tomorrow" (3:26)
  3. "The Other Side of Madness (Revenge)" (6:00)
  4. "Apocalypse Now" (8:07)
  5. "The Paths of Perfection" (3:05)
  6. "Victims" (4:38)
  7. "Kuruksetra" (5:27)
  8. "Changes" (12:11)

Hmm, not nearly as spiffy as their prior CD. Still thrashy but more generic, nothing exciting. At least that's what I thought of it when I first bought it, haven't listened to it in years.

"Near Death Experience"

  1. "Say Good-Bye to Mother Earth" (5:03)
  2. "Kali-Yuga" (6:23)
  3. "War on the Streets" (3:27)
  4. "Death in the Womb" (2:16)
  5. "Time I Am" (4:42)
  6. "Reflections" (4:21)
  7. "Near Death Experience" (3:33)
  8. "The Other Side of Madness"--Rat Soup Version '93 (4:41)

Cro-Mags vocals were never that impressive, but on this album they are downright awful...it sounds like the guy is strangling on a dead sewer rat! And you *know* there's a problem when one of the songs is taken from their previous album, and there's only eight tracks total. I completely ignored this CD when it first came out, but years later when I ran across a used copy, I figured I might as well finish off the collection -- after all, this CD may never be seen again...

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