Thicker than Water is the title of the second album released by H₂O

H2O (American band)

-Prologue:Prior to the formation of H2O, in the early-mid-1980s, Todd Morse and Rusty Pistachio were part of the speed punk band "Roadside Petz". This band featured Wayne Williams on drums...

. It was released on October 7, 1997. It was their first of two albums to be released on Epitaph Records

Epitaph Records

Epitaph Records is a Hollywood, California based independent record label owned by Bad Religion guitarist Brett Gurewitz. The label was originally "just a logo and a P.O. box" created in the 1980s for the purpose of selling Bad Religion records, but has evolved into a large independent record...

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"Friend" is a cover of a song by Marginal Man

Marginal Man

Marginal Man was a punk band that emerged in the Washington, D.C. hardcore scene in 1983. Steve Polcari, Pete Murray, and Mike Manos all had played earlier in Artificial Peace, a band which appears on Dischord Records' important Flex Your Head compilation, an essential document of the 1980s D.C....

, a Washington D.C. Dischord Records

Dischord Records

Dischord Records is a Washington, D.C.-based independent record label specializing in the independent punk music of the D.C.-area music scene. The label is co-owned by Ian MacKaye and Jeff Nelson, who founded Dischord in 1980 to release Minor Disturbance by The Teen Idles...

 punk band from the 1980's.

"Everready" and "Thicker than Water" were featured in the Electronic Arts

Electronic Arts

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' PlayStation

PlayStation

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 game, Street Sk8er

Street Sk8er

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They did a video for "Everready" with CIV appearing as a news reporter.

Track listing

All music by H₂O

H2O (American band)

-Prologue:Prior to the formation of H2O, in the early-mid-1980s, Todd Morse and Rusty Pistachio were part of the speed punk band "Roadside Petz". This band featured Wayne Williams on drums...

 and lyrics by Toby Morse, Todd Morse and Rusty Pistachio, unless otherwise noted.

1. "Universal Language" – 0:59
2. "Everready" – 2:11
3. "Talk Too Much" – 1:30
4. "I See It in Us" (Max Capshaw, H₂O
   H2O (American band)
   -Prologue:Prior to the formation of H2O, in the early-mid-1980s, Todd Morse and Rusty Pistachio were part of the speed punk band "Roadside Petz". This band featured Wayne Williams on drums...
   
   ) – 2:10
5. "Sacred Heart" – 2:15
6. "Innocent Kids" – 0:45
7. "Scarred" – 1:59
8. "Go" – 2:24
9. "This Time" – 2:00
10. "Friend" (Marginal Man) – 1:38
11. "A Plus" – 2:22
12. "Phone Song" – 2:06
13. "Responsible" – 1:35
14. "Wake Up" – 1:06
15. "Thicker than Water" – 2:06
16. "No Fucking Tears" – 2:43
    • Track 16 was an unlisted track

Personnel

• Toby Morse – vocals
• Todd Morse – guitar
  Guitar
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  , vocals
• Rusty Pistachio – guitar, vocals
• Adam Blake – bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  
• Todd Friend – drum
  Drum
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  s, vocals

• Recorded June 21 – 27, 1997 at Brielle Studios, New York City
  New York City
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  , USA
• Produced by H₂O
  H2O (American band)
  -Prologue:Prior to the formation of H2O, in the early-mid-1980s, Todd Morse and Rusty Pistachio were part of the speed punk band "Roadside Petz". This band featured Wayne Williams on drums...
  
  , Larry Buksbaum with Dean Rispler
• Engineered, mastered and mixed (at Sound On Sound, New York
  New York
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  ) by Larry Buksbaum
• Pre-production at Loho Studios, New York City
  New York City
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External links

• Epitaph Records
• Blackout Records