The Crack

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The Crack
Studio album by The Ruts
Released	1979
Genre	Punk rock
Length	54:34
Producer(s)	Mick Glossop & The Ruts, Bob Sargeant
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The Ruts chronology
	The Crack (1979)	"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 Special Patrol Group in 1979 was also released as a single but didn't make the UK chart.

The cover pcture 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 The Damned (top right corner), Jimmy Pursey (bottom right), while Peter Cook and Dudley Moore are standing behind Malcolm, John Peel appears to be doing something to a schoolgirl 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 roadie Mannah (seen from the back) who assisted in writing the song "S.U.S" which deals with the vagrancy act. The astronomer Patrick Moore looks on somewhat disapprovingly from the left.

[edit] Track listing

1. "Babylon's Burning"
2. "Dope For Guns"
3. "S.U.S."
4. "Something That I Said"
5. "You're Just A...."
6. "It Was Cold"
7. "Savage Circle"
8. "Jah War"
9. "Criminal Mind"
10. "Backbiter"
11. "Out Of Order"
12. "Human Punk"
13. "Give Youth A Chance" - CD Bonus Track
14. "I Ain't Sofisticated" - CD Bonus Track
15. "The Crack" - CD Bonus Track

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