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| Technocracy | 
 enlarge | Artist: Corrosion Of Conformity
Category: Music
List Price: $21.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 94677
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 398417019204
EAN: 0039841701920
ASIN: B000025KKZ
Release Date: July 9, 2002
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Condition: Brand new. Shipped from the UK by Airmail direct to 5 airports in the United States. Delivery takes approximately 5 working days from posting - we're frequently faster than a lot of US based sellers.
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| Tracks:
| • | Technocracy | | • | Hungry Child | | • | Happily Ever After | | • | Crawling | | • | Ahh Blugh (Milking the Sick Farce) | | • | Intervention | | • | Technocracy | | • | Crawling | | • | Happily Ever After |
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Album Description
One of the original crossover bands of the mid-80s, Corrosion of Conformity has always been one of those bands that never quite goes away, though they do their very best to attempt doing themselves in. Though I am too lazy to actually look it up, I don't think there have been two albums in a row with the exact same lineup. Either bassist Mike Dean is singing or he's not in the band or he's just playing bass. Or someone named Simon Bob is handling vocals. Or something. So what is it about this Sabbath-influenced hardcore thrash band? Beats me. Technocracy is a competent, aggressive piece of work, featuring some earlier COC works on one short disc, but it's far from exciting. The tempos are punk but the heaviness is metal. The singing is generally weak throughout, lacking the depth or breadth to truly be exciting. I suppose a purist could get into the fact that the heaviness is genuine, but for me I demand more than just by-the-numbers heavy music. Metal Blad. 2002.
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 Response to "Basically the worst CD I've ever heard" May 27, 2004
15 out of 22 found this review helpful
You have it backwards, sonny boy. Those of us who got into COC before Blind and Deliverance were fans of a hardcore band who had integrity. Scrubs like you who only heard of them after they were on MTV's Headgiver's Ball were taken in by a bunch of washed up old sell outs. It's a good thing your stupid friend threw away Technocracy, he didn't deserve to own it in the first place. Now go back to your generic nu-metal.
 COC's last gasp before they went blind. June 16, 2000
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
Those of you who discovered COC in 1991 or later might be surprised to find that they could actually be considered sellouts by some who were listening to them as early as 1984. COC seemed to have trouble keeping a solid vocalist until they found Pepper. (Actually, I think Pepper found them.) The first album, Eye For An Eye (1984), which was really more hardcore punk than metal, featured a vocalist named Eric. He left the band very soon after that album was released. On album #2, Animosity (1985), bassist Mike took care most of the vocal duties, drummer Reed singing lead on two songs. For the record, I believe Animosity was COC's best work by FAR. Intensely brutal and severe. Mike and Reed really should have maintained their positions as instrumentalists AND vocalists. Their voices, gutteral hissing growls etc. were perfectly suited for their style of down & dirty no-nonsense speedmetal. Technocracy was their 3rd record, a 5 song EP. 4 songs, really. The last track was a complete throw-away. During this era, they enlisted Simon Bob Sinister to fill in as vocalist. Simon Bob had just broken up his own Bible Belt based band (Ugly Americans) and was apparently in need of a job. Big mistake on COC's part, taking him up on it. I cannot think of a less powerful vocalist in the speed metal scene. His voice is almost completely ineffectual, devoid of any and all agression, or any other emotion for that matter. He just breathes the lyrics out as hard as he can, which isn't very hard. He practically whines. Still, it's a cut above the "Please please PLEASE, we WANT to sell out!" stylings of Jim Morrison/whatever-wannabe Karl Agel on Blind. Thank God he only lasted one record as well. And thank Pepper for taking the dead shell of a spent once-great group and breathing new life into them. As far as I can tell, COC are now little more than Pepper's backup band. They have absolutely nothing to do with 1980s COC, at least in terms of sound. Still, Deliverance and Wiseblood are both excellent records in and of themselves.Thankfully, this CD reissue includes some well recorded demo verisons of songs with Mike singing them, which drastically improves them. They are, afterall, good songs.
 Basically the worst CD I've ever heard. February 24, 2004
5 out of 29 found this review helpful
Back in the day I was a huge Corrosion of Conformity fan. Like many people, I first heard the band during their Deliverance era and soon found myself trying to track down their back-catalog. I found Blind first, and even though Pepper Keenan wasn't on lead vocals, I still found the CD to be sort of enjoyable. However, once I got to Technocracy, I realized that the musically-talented good-songwriting serious-musicianship Corrosion of Conformity I knew only existed from Blind up.This CD is absolutely horrible. I had a hard time even believing this was COC. It's just talentless garbage noise that sounds worse than the crappy middle-school garage band that plays down your street that'll never make it. I've heard a lot of different metal music in my time, but this CD was by far one of the worst things I've ever listened to. My friend (before I knew him) had the same exact circumstances as me about COC (first heard Deliverance, then wanted their back catalog) and hated this CD so much after he bought it that he threw it out after hearing it just once. He didn't want anyone else to have to suffer hearing how horrible it was. I warn anyone who loves Deliverance/Wiseblood era COC to stay far away from this CD and all those pathetic COC releases that came out before it. This CD isn't even worth a penny, so don't spend your money on it.
Before the rock god era May 13, 2002
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Back when punk WAS political and crossover was punk/metal not rock/rap COC graced us with a fine EP of hardcore ideology. Perhaps it was the very scientists they feared in the Technocracy that drugged them and caused their downfall resulting in the "corrosion of conformity" from 1991 on that sounds like lynyrd skynyrd crossed with nirvana.
 some good moments although... December 1, 2004
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
I began to be a huge fan of C.O.C after buying "blind" in the early nineties and thus, I was eager to get their previous releases. But while I was stunned by the overall qualities of "Eye for an eye" and "Animosity", I had mixed feelings toward "Technocracy", their last hardcore/crossover release. Although the songs are brutal ones, I think that they rarely match those of the first albums of C.O.C. Was the band lacking inspiration at that time? It maybe probable because they even made a cover (a good one however) of "Intervention" which appears to be the best part of that production... Woody Weatherman (lead guitarist) even declared that this recording was not a memorable period for the band... So, "Technocracy" may not be an absolute crap (At moments, I was able to get enjoyed listening it...) but, don't consider it as 'one of their best'.
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