Earth Crisis (album)

Earth Crisis is a roots reggae album released by Steel Pulse in January 1984. It is Steel Pulse's fifth studio album. On the album cover are pictures of American President Ronald Reagan, Soviet leader Yuri Andropov, Pope John Paul II, a Ku Klux Klansman, a Vietnamese refugee, and other historical pictures.

For the metalcore band, see Earth Crisis.
Earth Crisis
Studio album by
Steel Pulse
ReleasedJanuary 1984
RecordedJacobs Studios, Farnham, Surrey, England/Horizon Studio, Coventry, England, 1983
GenreReggae
Length38:44
LabelElektra
ProducerJimmy Haynes & Steel Pulse
Steel Pulse chronology
True Democracy
(1982)		 Earth Crisis
(1984)		 Babylon The Bandit
(1986)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]

Earth Crisis peaked at #154 on The Billboard 200 chart in 1984.

Metalcore band Earth Crisis was called making reference to this album, because its cover portrayed many of the things they "would stand against", such as the starving African children, the two blocs of the Cold War and Klansmen.[2]

Track listing

All tracks written by David Hinds.

  1. "Steppin' Out" – 4:02
  2. "Tightrope" – 4:10
  3. "Throne of Gold" – 4:25
  4. "Roller Skates" – 4:54
  5. "Earth Crisis" – 4:55
  6. "Bodyguard" – 4:26
  7. "Grab Education" – 6:12
  8. "Wild Goose Chase" – 5:40

Songs

Wild Goose Chase

"Wild Goose Chase" is the eighth song on this album. The song's lyrics are critical of the misuse of technology. The musicians who perform this song, however, make extensive use of electronic synthesizers, vocoders and talk boxes, which exemplify a harmless form of advanced technology, while contributing to the song's message and unique sound.

This song laments the misguided use of technology for purposes which the song's author, David Hinds, views as unnatural, such as in vitro fertilization.

Personnel

References
  1. Earth Crisis at AllMusic
  2. https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2017/11/23/earth-crisis-firestorm-purify-straight-edge-book-excerpt/
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