Body count
 

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No thread so why not start one. I'm just listening to their debut and whilst I was reading more about them ran into a comment on last.fm which praises BC for being innovative back in 1992 (and still sounding fresh today). Now, I'm not a big fan of pre-1995 music but I don't really hear anything particularly innovative in their music. Is it the fact that they're an all black (rock) band that makes them automatically a "good" rock band? A few months back I posted a thread about a Detroit proto-punk (or rock) band called Death which precedes BC by about 20 years. Now, although BC leans more on the metal (or hard core punk, I'm bad with genres but I think some of their songs are more punk than metal) side, I'd say their sounds aren't beyond comparison, only Death seems to merit the tag "innovative" a tad more.

Or maybe the "innovativeness" lies in the cop-killing lyrics? I dunno, you tell me.

Incidentally, KKK Bitch is an ok tune.

Any thoughts on the band, or just life in general?

Haven't heard it since it was current. Got a kick out of it at the time. Enjoyed it, had it in rotation. My college homeys liked it too - was one of the few non-stoner/jazz white bread things I brought into the soundtrack. Mixed in with their Phycyde, Tribe Called Quest and Chronic and Prince. Krazy times.

Would it have been better to compare them with Bad Brains? :\

I wasn't comparing them to those groups. Yes Bodycount was quite extreme compared to those I mentioned but those were the groups brought in by some of my buddies while I was chillin' with like Floyd and Miles Davis so when I brought this it was a little ... oh never mind ... had to be there...
EDIT: i.e., Ice-T was previously more hip hop than what he did with Bodycount so this was quite an exciting crossover and ... oh never mind it was still good to party to...

I wasn't talking to you specifically...;)

oh gotcha. Bodycount was basically thrash punk. They brung it.

Yeah I knew that, I'm just wondering if they'd 've been so successful if Ice T hadn't been in it and/or they weren't all black...:\

oh no way. They weren't even that successful as is. They made a splash because of Ice T and that's it.

Maybe that's why they didn't have a thread up until now...:laughing:

is that Ice T in the center?