Corrosion of Conformity - Eye For An Eye

Original Release Date

1984

Release Information

US LP 1984 (No Core - no cat no)
UK CD 2012 (Candlelight - CANDLE352CDSE)

1 Tell Me 3:29
2 Minds Are Controlled 1:35
3 Indifferent 1:18
4 Broken Will 1:34
5 Rabid Dogs 0:41
6 L.S. 2:14
7 Redneckkk 1:19
8 Coexist 2:50
9 Excluded 1:14
10 Dark Thoughts 1:49
11 Poison Planet 1:26
12 What? 2:33
13 Negative Outlook 0:53
14 Positive Outlook 1:2;13
15 No Drunk 0:23
16 College Town 2:04
17 Not Safe 2:31
18 Eye For An Eye 1:21
19 Nothing's Gonna Change 1:11
20 Green Manalishi 2:57

CD Bonus Tracks:
Six Songs With Mike Singing
21 Eye For An Eye 1:14
22 Centre Of The World 0:29
23 Citizen 0:47
24 Nor For Me 1:08
25 What (?) 2:26
26 Negative Outlook 0:56

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Credits

No Core LP:

Eric Eycke - vocals
Woody Weatherman - guitar
Mike Dean - bass & vocals
Reed Mullin - drums

Produced by §C.O.C.
Recorded at Hummingbird Sound Studios
Engineered by David Mahon

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Additional Credits on CANDLE352CDSE:

Credits on Tracks 21-26:

Recorded at Jag Studios
Engineered by McCay, Cook
Mixed by Schmidt
Produced by C.O.C.

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Reviews & Opinions

MARK PRINDLE: This was one of the first hardcore albums I ever heard and it did a great job of getting me hooked on the genre. Beause it's AWESOME! The filthy, dirty production completely separates the high fuzzed out guitar from the dulled low bass tone, with overmodulated cymbal-drums and original singer Eric Eycke's COMPLETELY toneless but violently intense pit bull growls finishing up the brew. The songs are what some might call generic hardcore, but with lots of out-of-place metallic overtures and southern rock leads (lots of redneck bends, for example), not to mention a TON of simple little high-speed punk riffs that won't leave your heady little bead. Lyrically, the album is overtly political like most hardcore punk, attacking (surprise) conformity, rednecks, college students, apathy and an old Fleetwood Mac song. There are 20 tunes, most of which feature a nice little slow trudgey part for you to bang your fist to, before snapping back to the faster-than-the-speed-of-lightning-ckkkeeeooowww! breakneck boom-chick-boom-chicks. I love the whole thing, except maybe the superslow/nauseating "L.S" and just DUMB up-and-down jerkiness of "Negative Outlook." If you've never heard hardcore before and want to give it a go, my recommendations (everybody has their favorites, of course) would be this one, the first Suicidal Tendencies, the first DRI, Marvin Gaye's What's Goin' On and the Misfits' Earth AD/Wolfs Blood. It's a spectacular genre -- it's fast, it's catchy and it appeals to the basest violent impulses in even the nicest little person. Then guess what? You slam dance and bang your head for 20 minutes and voila - you're too tired to beat somebody up! Take THAT to the cash and bank you, Joe Mantegna!

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