Brutal Truth - Goodbye Cruel World

CD one:

1. Intro
2. Dementia
3. Kill All Politicians
4. Choice Of A New Generation
5. Birth Of Ignorance
6. Stench Of Profit
7. Walking Corpse
8. Sympathy Kiss
9. Pork Farm
10. Jemenez Cricket
11. Repeat At Length
12. Media Blitz
13. Fucktoy
14. Ill-Neglect
15. Kill Trend Suicide
16. Cornucopia
17. Godplayer
18. I Killed My Family
19. Time
20. Denial Of Existence
21. Hippie Cult
22. Callous
23. Zodiac
CD two:
1. No Sleep
2. Hippie Cult
3. Cybergod
4. Cornucopia
5. Born To Die
6. Spare Change
7. Machine Parts
8. Collateral Damage
9. Fucktoy
10. Kill Trend Suicide
11. Bordem's #1
12. Bordem's #2
13. Telly
14. Bucky
15. Blind Leading The Blind
16. Pass Some Down
17. Vision
18. Fisting
19. Die Laughing
20. Let's Go To War
21. Zombie
22. Homesick
23. Everflow
24. Dead Smart
25. Soft Mind
26. Dethroned Emperor
27. It's After The End Of The World
28. Callous
29. Average People
30. Black Door Mine
31. Promise
32. Foolish Bastard
33. Bite The Hand
34. Collateral Damage

Necessarily, Goodbye Cruel World is a marked occasion. This sprawling 57 track homage to the one of the earliest and longest-standing torchbearers of American grindcore finds the band operating in the hideous, blinding sort of energy that was their live show. It is worth noting that nowhere on this CD does the band appear to be coming apart at the seams, imploding, or hacking the songs up like many a noise-grind bands tended to. Sure, Kevin Sharp is frothing at the mouth, Lilker and Gurn offer a naked, primitive tandemic rhythm (in the strictest sense of the word) and Rich Hoak's near god-like drumming are no-lose musical constructs. But the temptation to descend into a colorless din is duly resisted. In fact, the oddball creativity and studio excesses of Need To Control and Animal Kingdom rub well; these renditions are loose, comfortable interpretations of the originals...with the exception of the butchered "Ill-Neglect", but hey - 1 of 44 is a ratio I can live with. In that sense, it's an absolute appropriate summation of their musical trajectory: This is Brutal Truth: this is how they sounded then, this is how they feel about it now. Elsewhere, the band took their covers seriously. The Germs, Celtic Frost, Black Sabbath, the Boredoms, Agathocles, Melvins are dutifully sent through the band's bludgeoning tumbler, furbished with a unique understanding of Japanese grindcore, which glazed over much of their later material. Darby Crash would have been proud.

Among the studio tracks, I must nominate "No Sleep" as the superlative. They are, in general, strange little ditties with limited belonging (and not without good reason). Of course, if it's Brutal Truth, it's worth your attention anyway. For a band whose singer performed with Coke-bottle sized side-burns and a cowboy hat - you just knew they guys were functioning outside parameters. But alas, as the sun sets and the epitaphs are raised, what one must remember, and all one needs to know, can be summed up as thus: Brutal Truth wrecked the place.

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