Open Your Eyes (Warzone album)

Open Your Eyes
Studio album by Warzone
Released 1988
Recorded 1988
Genre Hardcore punk
Length 26:37
Label Caroline Records
Another Planet (1994)
Producer Dr. Know
Jerry Williams
Warzone chronology
Don't Forget the Struggle, Don't Forget the Streets
(1987)		 Open Your Eyes
(1988)		 Warzone
(1989)
Re-issue cover
1994 Another Planet re-issue – with Don't Forget the Struggle, Don't Forget the Streets on same disc
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
Kerrang! [2]

Open Your Eyes was the second full-length album from New York hardcore band, Warzone – who originated in Lower East Side, Manhattan, United States. It was released in 1988 on Caroline Records and follows on from their first album, Don't Forget The Struggle, Don't Forget The Streets, the previous year.

Among the production team was guitarist, Dr. Know, of the Washington, D.C. hardcore band, Bad Brains. One of the tracks, "Always – A Friend For Life", was a re-recording of a song from their debut EP, Lower East Side Crew (1987), as was "We're The Crew" from their previous album. In 1994, Another Planet re-issued the album on the same disc as Don't Forget The Struggle....

Lyrically, the band strived to distance themselves from the racist skinhead label which had haunted them from inception. Other lyrics discussed oppression, togetherness, and the sense of belonging to a bigger, extended family. Musically, the album featured straightforward New York Hardcore with plenty of room for mosh indulgence. However, the first signs of musical experimentation emerged with occasional guitar flourishes.

Track listing

  1. "Open Up Your Eyes" – 4:29
  2. "Dance Hard Or Die" – 1:17
  3. "Face Up To It" – 2:06
  4. "Always – A Friend For Life" – 2:41
  5. "Racism – World History Part I" – 2:44
  6. "Back To School Again" – 3:01
  7. "The American Movement" – 2:31
  8. "Fight The Oppressor" – 2:50
  9. "Deceive Us – No More" – 2:37
  10. "Striving Higher For A Better Life" – 2:23

Credits

Notes

  1. ↑ "Warzone Open Your Eyes review". Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 2011-10-10.
  2. ↑ Gitter, Mike (19 November 1988). "Warzone 'Open Your Eyes". Kerrang!. 214. London, UK: Spotlight Publications ltd. p. 20.
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