Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Street Sweeper Social Club, worth your money?

They totally "Michael Bayed" that boom box

Rage Against the Machine was clearly a band that was more than the sum of it's parts. Nobody wants to hear Zach de la Rocha's rap album (did that ever come out?), and without him Rage was reduced to a Led Zeppelin tribute band. On the other hand The Coup are definitely less than the sum of their parts. And that's saying a lot, because really The Coup is just Boots Riley, their lead rapper, with a 3 piece band. As a rapper Boots is pretty good, but in 15 years The Coup has about 3 good songs and no hits. They're most well known for this Album cover that was supposed to be released just days after 9/11.

Whoops.. Lets just say that for all the press this album got, it didn't set any sales records.

So where's that leave us. With Tom Morello and Boots Riley creating a rap/rock fusion super group, Street Sweeper Social club. Their new self titled album is basically 12 tracks that sound like recylced Coup lyrics over Early Rage against the Machine B sides. It's not that original, it doesn't seem to be that well produced and the whole thing kind of reeks of minimal effort. Of course none of that prevented me for cranking it at full blast on my way into work this morning. Go ahead and bit torrent the crap out of this album, Boots Riley is a communist he wouldn't want your money anyway.

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