Abducted - Hypocrisy

Advantages: Very influential, Funky jazz hiphop, makes you think, Totally positive messages
Disadvantages: This was their only album

...who have ever heard of the Disposable Hero's. The political agenda of this album is about as 'in your face' as i have ever heard which explains why it was never as popular as it should have been. From the outset Michael Franti's deep american drawl attacks every mainstay of media and goverment hypocrisy and lies you can possibly think of. This isn't in a kind of harmless Marylin Mansonesque 'Let's be controvertial and everyone will think we're cool' manner. This is real subvertion of the status quo even to the extent that more than one record label refused to release this album and the band were constantly harrassed and threatened with censorship during their brief existance. From the first track on this album, 'Satanic Reverses' you get a mix of rolling hiphop beats, funky basslines, grinding samples, horns and junk percussion... Read review

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Advantages: It will make you think and it's very very funky
Disadvantages: n/a

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Advantages: new directions taken, new ideas tried.
Disadvantages: may put off older fans of the band, but it shouldn't.

...of endless potential singles. "Everyday Combat", the albums rip-roaring opener sends out a warning call about the world around us ("After dark, terror in the town high street. And I know you can't stop full throttle, Get involved mate, broken bottle"), whilst the stonking "A Town Called Hypocrisy" is just another of those old proverbial head shots… ("Save your sympathy, Who do you think you're fooling? Everything is dead! Now you welcome me, To a town called hypocrisy"). Whilst the bands aforementioned new-found pop edge is evident on almost all of the albums 12 tracks, it's not to say that they've lost their rock vibe completely. "Everybody's Screaming", for one, is the album's rockiest moment - and whilst it doesn't quite pack the punch of old - it's still an emphatically brilliant track ("'cause you see the world through bloodshot eyes... Read review

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