A slightly ironic review of the classical CD album "Body Count".
Good old Body Count. This was the real stuff. Forget
about NWA, Cyprus Hill and Dr. Dre-Dre T-Man Honk Da Dodo (OK, I just made him
up, but you do get the point). Body Count sounded as if they actually meant it!
Communism had just fallen, the Gulf War had ended in an American victory, the New World Order was in the making, world history was coming to a glorious end...and absolutely nothing had changed in the United Snakes of Amerika. (Dan Quayle was vice-president.) A month after the release of this album, the LA Riots erupted.
I readily admit that I loved every minute of this album in my younger, radical and more anarchistic days. This album is hard core in more ways than one. We're talking STO, RCYB, Love & Rage, Slingshot, The Shadow.... This was their kind of music, and revolution was in the air. Not the airy, hippie "revolution" of flower power, but the real, raw stuff. Amerika's finest were finally going to get what was coming to them. The New World Order was going down.
It didn't, of course. Instead we got...Bill Clinton! Still, I admit a certain nostalgia when listening to Ice T and his Black (!) trash metal band Body Count. Apparently, "Cop Killer" is still a no-no in the United Snakes, but the rest of the songs seem to be included on this "official" version of the eponymous debut album. For a time, another song created quite some stir as well, "Momma's gotta die tonight". Actually, the song is a protest against *reverse* racism, but it can be difficult to get, especially if you don't listen carefully to the lyrics...
Being a (reasonably) White boy, it was this anti-racist, colour-blind angle that got me hooked on Body Count. I never been much of a fan of the Nation of Islam or the African United People Kwanzaa Uhuru Swahili Party. Most such groups are on the CIA payroll anyway.
:D
OK, you may interpret this review any way you see fit. Incidentally, I liked "New Jack City", too!
And now, sports...
Communism had just fallen, the Gulf War had ended in an American victory, the New World Order was in the making, world history was coming to a glorious end...and absolutely nothing had changed in the United Snakes of Amerika. (Dan Quayle was vice-president.) A month after the release of this album, the LA Riots erupted.
I readily admit that I loved every minute of this album in my younger, radical and more anarchistic days. This album is hard core in more ways than one. We're talking STO, RCYB, Love & Rage, Slingshot, The Shadow.... This was their kind of music, and revolution was in the air. Not the airy, hippie "revolution" of flower power, but the real, raw stuff. Amerika's finest were finally going to get what was coming to them. The New World Order was going down.
It didn't, of course. Instead we got...Bill Clinton! Still, I admit a certain nostalgia when listening to Ice T and his Black (!) trash metal band Body Count. Apparently, "Cop Killer" is still a no-no in the United Snakes, but the rest of the songs seem to be included on this "official" version of the eponymous debut album. For a time, another song created quite some stir as well, "Momma's gotta die tonight". Actually, the song is a protest against *reverse* racism, but it can be difficult to get, especially if you don't listen carefully to the lyrics...
Being a (reasonably) White boy, it was this anti-racist, colour-blind angle that got me hooked on Body Count. I never been much of a fan of the Nation of Islam or the African United People Kwanzaa Uhuru Swahili Party. Most such groups are on the CIA payroll anyway.
:D
OK, you may interpret this review any way you see fit. Incidentally, I liked "New Jack City", too!
And now, sports...
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