Cro-Mags
Age of Quarrel/Best Wishes
Label:  Another Planet Records 
Date:  8/23/1994
Length:  0:00
Format:  CD
Genre:  Rock; Hardcore
  Category:  rock
    Track Listing:
      1.  
      		 We Gotta Know    
      2.  
      		 World Peace    
      3.  
      		 Show You No Mercy    
      4.  
      		 Malfunction    
      5.  
      		 Street Justice    
      6.  
      		 Survival of the Streets    
      7.  
      		 Seekers of the Truth    
      8.  
      		 It's the Limit    
      9.  
      		 Hard Times    
      10.  
      		 By Myself    
      11.  
      		 Don't Tread on Me    
      12.  
      		 Face the Facts    
      13.  
      		 Do Unto Others    
      14.  
      		 Life of My Own    
      15.  
      		 Signs of the Times    
      16.  
      		 Death Camps    
      17.  
      		 Days of Confusion    
      18.  
      		 The Only One    
      19.  
      		 Down, But Not Out    
      20.  
      		 Crush the Demoniac    
      21.  
      		 Fugitive    
      22.  
      		 Then and Now    
      23.  
      		 Age of Quarrel    
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      This twofer compendium--which contains all the songs from the Cro-Mags' first two albums--can serve as an ideal introduction to this tough-as-nails Gotham band, which swerved from brute-force hardcore to slightly more sophisticated thrash between the recordings. The Age of Quarrel material, sung by John Joseph, is pure street-thug hardcore--"Show You No Mercy," "Do unto Others"--that's heavy on both declarations of scene unity and threats against those who aren't part of the scene. Most tracks clock in under two minutes. The band stretches out on the Best Wishes songs, which see bassist Harley Flanagan taking over on vocals. More metallic in tone, à la Anthrax, the "new, improved" Cro-Mags prove themselves capable of kicking out the jams guitarwise and even provoking some thought through Flanagan's Krishna-conscious lyrics. --David Sprague