The Crack - Expanded

40 years after its initial release by Virgin Records, The Ruts debut album The Crack (UK No.16) gets a deserved 3 Disc Expanded Edition which further cements its reputation as one of the greatest Punk Rock albums of all time. Disc 1 is the original 12 track album, the re-master overseen by surviving members Segs Jennings and Dave Ruffy. The second disc features the band’s first four singles – In A Rut , Babylon’s Burning (UK No.7), Something That I Said (UK No.29) and Jah War – plus 11 previously unreleased studio monitor mixes from the original album sessions showing rawer, work in progress versions of the album’s studio tracks. The final disc is a previously unreleased live show from The Netherlands in January 1980 featuring the original band at their most electric and exciting, vocalist Malcolm Owen in particular on fine form. The detailed booklet contains sleeve notes by Record Collector’s Rich Davenport plus lots of memorabilia from the era.

Disc: 1
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
Disc: 2
1 In a Rut
2 H-Eyes
3 Babylon's Burning (7" Version)
4 Society
5 Something That I Said (7" Version)
6 Give Youth a Chance
7 Jah War (7" Version)
8 I Ain't Sofisticated
9 You're Just A...
10 Criminal Mind
11 Savage Circle
12 Backbiter
13 Out of Order
14 I Ain't Sofisticated
15 It Was Cold
16 S.U.S.
17 Jah Wars
18 Something That I Said
19 Dope for Guns
Disc: 3
1 Savage Circle
2 Something That I Said
3 I Ain't Sofisticated
4 S.U.S.
5 Demolition Dancing
6 Backbiter
7 Out of Order
8 Jah War
9 Criminal Mind
10 Babylon's Burning
11 Dope for Guns
12 Staring at the Rude Boys
13 H-Eyes
14 In a Rut
15 You're Just A...
16 It Was Cold
17 Society
18 Love Song
19 Human Punk