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Negative Approach - Total Recall - CD

Click image to enlarge Negative Approach - Total Recall CD

Label: Touch And Go Records

Price: 11.90 Euro

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'Total Recall' is one of the best representations of hardcore that America has produced. It's not that Negative Approach are great musicians or lyricists, and the production is not what some people would call 'passable' (though I love the raw stuff) ... it's that the sheer anger and nihilistic hopelessness that so many of us have experienced at one time or another comes through loud and clear in their music.
I have to take issue with a previous reviewer's comments on this album. He wrote that NA didn't 'get it,' that they were too one-dimensional and were just acting out on one aspect of punk/hardcore; the anger and disaffection.
Well, maybe that's how NA ACTUALLY felt. If they did write these songs out of affectation, I certainly don't hear it. The first 11 tracks (their song off of the 'Process of Elimination' comp and their self titled 7') in particular are so full of venom and bile, with Brannon's perfectly growled vocals, that I can't believe Negative Approach didn't mean every word they sung at the time they were singing them.
Besides, I think bands like SSD are what made people laugh at hardcore (I love SSD too, by the way). The militantly straight edge bands that emerged in the early 80s probably did far more to alienate people than bands like NA. Yeah, maybe NA's fans were meatheads and skinheads... but, then again, so were a lot of Black Flag's (and Fear's!) fans.
At any rate, all that aside, this album rocks. The 'Tied Down' LP isn't that great, but the rest of the tracks more than make up for it. Happy, well-adjusted people may not dig it, but as for angry f**k-ups, well, Negative Approach is IT.

Tracklist:
01. Lost Cause
02. Can't Tell No One
03. Sick Of Talk
04. Pressure
05. Why Be Something That You're Not
06. Nothing
07. Fair Warning
08. Ready To Fight
09. Lead Song
10. Whatever I Do
11. Negative Approach
12. Tied Down
13. Hypocrite
14. Evacuate
15. Said And Done
16. Nothing
17. Your Mistake
18. Live Your Life
19. Friend Or Foe
20. Dead Stop
21. I'll Survive
22. Can't Tell No One
23. What Ever I Do
24. Ready To Fight
25. Chaos
26. Pressure/fair Warning
27. Lost Cause
28. Genocide/nothing
29. Never Surrender
30. D.a.b.f.
31. Said And Done
32. Sick Of Talk/n.a.
33. Your Mistake
34. Tied Down
35. I'll Survive
36. Kiss Me Kill Me
37. I Got A Right
38. Tunnel Vision