Crazemas Motto: “Shoot First, Ask Questions Later” - for Aleck

Aleck is a new Frenz of NSS. From comments he has made regarding his listening habits during the Reagan years, I have surmised that we are of the same generation & listened to the same musicks, at least in the Bonzo goes to Washington era. 

 

My musickal tastes have travelled onward since those days & I'm sure Aleck's have as well. However, I have recently been revisiting a short-lived band that formed near the end of Bonzo's term (1987) that still really pack a punch for me. I have always meant to share their tuneage here but somehow never got around to it. I was lucky enough to have seen them twice live, two of my best times hearing live musick. I am gifting some of their sounds to new Frenz Aleck. 

 

Cop Shoot Cop - Headkick Fascimile EP, Supernatural Organization SUR MLP6, 1988.
all decryption codes in comments

Side A -
Shine on Elizabeth
Mistake
Smash Retro!

Side B -
Triumphal Theme
Lie
Fire in the Hole

 

 

 

 

Cop Shoot Cop are usually listed in the genre industrial rock but their sound is really uncategorisable & unique. Their instrumental lineup varied from the usual, featuring twin bass guitars, found metal percussion, & no lead guitar.

These next three are top-self noisy political rock. She's like a shot... 

Cop Shoot Cop - Consumer Revolt, Circuit Records CIRCUIT 005, 1990.

Lo.Com.Denom.    
She's like a Shot
Waiting for the Punchline    
Disconnected 666    
Smash Retro!
Burn Your Bridges    
Consume    
Fire in the Hole
Pity the Bastard    
Down Come the Mickey    
Hurt Me Baby
System Test    
Eggs for Rib

 

 

 

 

On White Noise, CSC tell it like it is, starting off by presenting discount rebellion, declaring that the American foreign policy has the mindset of a deranged lawless cowboy, that the country is too stoned on consumerism to give a fuck, satirize our drug culture, satirize consumerism some more, belittle modern politics & democracy as a collection of illusory choices, attack hypocrisy, explore the possible benefits / drawbacks of the oncoming dystopia then happily close with the suggestion that we all just forget about it & get shit-faced drunk. This is a perfect listen for those of us looking to mentally iron out the combustible situation facing us by diffusing it with a bit of straight-to-the-point political satire. If tomorrow ever comes.

from "Corporate Protopop":
     Cultivate your desires.
     Let them grow and flower into the blossom that is greed.
     You see, you are needed.
     Your greed provides this country
     With the fertile financial soil in which the roots of exploitation
     Can spread, live, grow and flourish.

     This in turn furnishes you,
     The consumer, the standard of living you've come to expect.
     The products you buy, the programs you watch, the car you drive, your job.
     These are the things that define you as an individual.

    Without them you have no identity, no purpose, no reason to exist.
     Greed.
     Hatred.
     They're not just good ideas,
     They're the precepts this country was founded on.
     They will keep you right where you are.
     And we'd like to keep it that way.

 

 

Cop Shoot Cop - White Noise, Big Cat BB29CD, 1991.

Discount Rebellion    
Traitor/Martyr    
Coldest Day of the Year    
Feel Good    
Relief    
Empires Collapse
Corporate Protopop
Heads I Win, Tails You Lose    
Chameleon Man    
Where's the Money?    
If Tomorrow Ever Comes    
Hung Again

 

 

 

One final gift, shoot first...

 

 

Cop Shoot Cop - Ask Questions Later, Big Cat ABB45CD, 1993.

Surprise, Surprise
Room 429
Nowhere
Migration
Cut to the Chase
$10 Bill
Seattle
Furnace
Israeli Dig
Cause & Effect
Got No Soul
Everybody Loves You
All the Clocks are Broken
Untitled

 

 

 

Aiming for the best Crazemas yet,
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