Crisis is the third studio album

Studio album

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 from American

United States

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 punk rock

Punk rock

Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...

 band The Deadweights

The Deadweights

The Deadweights are an influential American punk rock band, formed in New York City in 1978.-Early years:The Deadweights began when James "White Jimmy" White and Eddie Urland left their prior bands. The two soon joined with numerous local punk musicians. Early members included both Raymond Pettibon...

. The album was released in September 1985 on Slash Records

Slash Records

Slash Records is a record label in Los Angeles, originally specializing in local and punk rock bands.The label was formed in 1978 by Bob Biggs as an outgrowth of the Los Angeles-based fanzine, Slash. Biggs, a painter, initiated the label with a seven-inch single from The Germs in 1978. A full album...

, and charted on the Billboard Top 200 upon release. The album was produced by legendary punk producer Spot

Spot (producer)

SPOT, , was the house producer and engineer for the influential independent punk record label SST Records. He recorded, mixed, produced or co-produced for most of SST's pivotal acts between 1979 and 1985...

 and Nick Fulton of the band Xes

XES

XES is a Mexican Spanish-language AM radio station that serves the Tampico, Tamaulipas market area. W Radio is broadcast across the Spanish-speaking nations of Latin America.-External links:* * *...

. The album is considered to be the band's best offering, and places in many "definitive punk albums" lists. The album is much more political than its predecessors, with subject matter ranging from the NYPD's abuse of power to the Cold War

Cold War

The Cold War was the continuing state from roughly 1946 to 1991 of political conflict, military tension, proxy wars, and economic competition between the Communist World—primarily the Soviet Union and its satellite states and allies—and the powers of the Western world, primarily the United States...

. The band was the subject of a federal case after the PMRC declared the band's song "Reagan Shoots Himself" to be a song promoting terror and a direct threat to Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan

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. To date, the album is the band's best selling, moving over 1 million copies worldwide.

Track listing

All tracks by White Jimmy

White Jimmy

White Jimmy is the vocalist of the American punk rock bands The Deadweights and The Gitmo Condemned, owner of the Ruined Recordings label, and a solo punk rock and alternative rock artist.-Early years:James White was born in New York City to an Italian father and Irish/British mother...

1. "Red Scare 2" - 3:14
2. "Idiot" - 2:16
3. "Crisis" - 3:31
4. "New York Pigs" - 3:17
5. "Street Justice" - 2:12
6. "Reagan Shoots Himself" - 4:37
7. "Paraplegic" - 2:25
8. "Cut You Off" - 2:55
9. "Leaving the Center of Attention" - 3:40
10. "On Drugs" - 2:37
11. "Witch Hunt" - 3:45
12. "Famous (In the Eyes of the Losers)" - 4:01
13. "Kill Yourself" - 3:41

Personnel

• White Jimmy
  White Jimmy
  White Jimmy is the vocalist of the American punk rock bands The Deadweights and The Gitmo Condemned, owner of the Ruined Recordings label, and a solo punk rock and alternative rock artist.-Early years:James White was born in New York City to an Italian father and Irish/British mother...
  
   - vocals
• Eddie Urland - guitar, backing vocals
• Ricky Scaggs - bass
• Dopey - drums (Tracks 1-9, 11, 13)
• Paul Theissen - drums (Tracks 10 and 12)
• Spot
  Spot (producer)
  SPOT, , was the house producer and engineer for the influential independent punk record label SST Records. He recorded, mixed, produced or co-produced for most of SST's pivotal acts between 1979 and 1985...
  
   - production, mixing
• Nick Fulton - production, backing vocals
• Jack Hoffonmyfac (alias of White Jimmy) - artwork
• Ugly James (alias of White Jimmy) - mixing

Charting Positions

Year	Chart	Position
1985	The Billboard 200	#184

Trivia

• Appears in the Associated Press
  Associated Press
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   list of the Top 99 albums of 1985-1995 at #86
• Appears in the top 25 albums of 1985 on Rateyourmusic.com
• Appears in Spin Magazine's list of the Top 100 albums of the last 25 years (1980 - 2005) at #94