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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 sounRAB 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?
 
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...
 
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...:\
 
Innovative? Hardly. The only thing that made them stand out was Ice T fronting them. Living Colour were an all Black band working their schizz out of America in the mid 80's and successfully fused genres in a cohesive sound. Other banRAB such as Suicidal Tendencies were far more innovative and brought fans in from Punk, Hardcore, Metal and Hip Hop to far better effect. I have always thought Body Count were more of a side project that just happened to break big at the time.
 
I quite liked the first album when it came out.

By the time the second one came out it was pretty obvious they were just a novelty act and I lost interest.
 
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