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Corrosion of Conformity: "Technocracy EP" |
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In a shallow grave sits the old
version of what is now simply referred to as
"COC". A horseshoe gets zealously heaved toward
that stake in the earth marked "Massive
Public Acceptance". Said horseshoe
enters nearby house via the window. Plenty of
bands have traveled similar routes, but who truly
respected most of them to begin with? Not me.
Woody Weatherman (guitars), Reed Mullin (drums)
and Mike Dean (bass) opted to keep their original
moniker (somewhat) intact and are still out
there, but they can't even get arrested (or juicy
opening slots with The Stone Temple Pilots) now.
Some smart person at Columbia Records saw fit to
exhume some of "COC's" early material, and here
you have it, complete with a couple of bonus
tracks. The better stuff here was back in the day
when they had Simon Bob Sinister singing for them
(he also of the painfully obscure Ugly
Americans).
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The fact that
"Technocracy",
"Animosity" or any of their
other pre-metal albums are probably massively
outselling "Deliverance", or
their newer stuff oughtta be a splash of cold
water in their dimly surprised faces.
The inner artwork to this reissue has flyers for
some of their early shows at famous old punk
dives like Cathay De Grande, and The Brewery,
including slots with St. Vitus, Eugene
Chadbourne, and Neon Christ, all artists who
would probably vomit if they heard the band
today, playing much slower commercialized "heavy
alternative", and opening for the new, short
haired, diet-rock Metallica.
Regardless, "Technocracy" (from
1986) is a mini album they can be still be proud
of, and has aged better I'm sure than 2000's
"America's Volume Dealer"
eventually will when most record shops have cut
the price of "AVD" down to
almost nothing in an effort to clear their
bulging storage lockers.
By Jason Thornberry, CanEHdian.com
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