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Divorced from the controversy that surrounded its release, Body Count's self-titled debut is a surprisingly tepid affair. Apart from the previously released "Body Count" (which appeared on Ice-T's 1991 album O.G. Original Gangster), the record is devoid of serious commentary, trading intelligence for a lurid comic book depiction of sex, violence, and "Voodoo." All of Ice-T's half-sung/half-shouted lyrics fall far short of the standard he established on his hip-hop albums. The controversial "Cop Killer" -- which is nothing more than a standard thrash metal chant -- stands out because it is one of the few tracks that doesn't rely on garish, cartoonish imagery. There's the saga of "Evil Dick," which tells Ice-T not to "sleep alone." There's "KKK Bitch," where he crashes a Ku Klux Klan meeting and screws the grand dragon's daughter. There's "Voodoo," where a witch doctor cripples our hero with a voodoo doll. There's "Mama's Gotta Die Tonight," where Ice-T offs his mother cause she's a racist. By the time the band works around to the power ballad "The Winner Loses" and Ice-T is crooning "My friend's addicted to cocaine," it's unclear whether the record is a parody or a horribly flawed stab at arena metal. It would help if the band wrote riffs that were memorable or if they conveyed a sense of kinetic energy instead of tossing out their riffs in a workmen-like fashion. Perhaps Body Count was intentionally humorous -- although the group's follow-up, Born Dead, suggests that it wasn't -- but in any case, the record was simply embarrassing. After "Cop Killer" was pulled from the album, it was replaced with a bland version of Ice-T's rap classic "The Iceberg" recorded with Jello Biafra.
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
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Ice-T, Mixer, Rapper Vocals, Writer - HOWIE KLEIN, ExecutiveProducer - Moose Man, Bass - Beatmaster "V", Drums - Body Count, MainArtist - Ernie.C, Producer, Mixer, Guitar, Writer - D-Roc, Rhythm Guitar - Bernard Matthews, Engineer
© 1992 Sire Records ℗ 1992 Sire Records Company
Ice-T, Mixer, Rapper Vocals, Writer - Tracy Morrow, Composer - HOWIE KLEIN, ExecutiveProducer - Moose Man, Bass - Beatmaster "V", Drums - Body Count, MainArtist - Ernie.C, Producer, Mixer, Guitar - Ernest Cunnigan, Composer - D-Roc, Rhythm Guitar - Arika Islam, Producer - Bernard Matthews, Engineer
© 1992 Sire Records ℗ 1992 Sire Records Company
Ice-T, Mixer, Rapper Vocals, Writer - HOWIE KLEIN, ExecutiveProducer - Moose Man, Bass - Beatmaster "V", Drums - Body Count, MainArtist - Ernie.C, Producer, Mixer, Guitar, Writer - D-Roc, Rhythm Guitar - Bernard Matthews, Engineer
© 1992 Sire Records ℗ 1992 Sire Records Company
Ice-T, Mixer, Rapper Vocals, Writer - HOWIE KLEIN, ExecutiveProducer - Moose Man, Bass - Beatmaster "V", Drums - Body Count, MainArtist - Ernie.C, Producer, Mixer, Guitar, Writer - Tracy Marrow, Writer - Tracey Marrow, Writer - D-Roc, Rhythm Guitar - Bernard Matthews, Engineer
© 1992 Sire Records ℗ 1992 Sire Records Company
Ice-T, Mixer, Rapper Vocals, Writer - HOWIE KLEIN, ExecutiveProducer - Moose Man, Bass - Beatmaster "V", Drums - Body Count, MainArtist - Ernie.C, Producer, Mixer, Guitar, Writer - D-Roc, Rhythm Guitar - Bernard Matthews, Engineer
© 1992 Sire Records ℗ 1992 Sire Records Company
Ice-T, Mixer, Rapper Vocals, Writer - HOWIE KLEIN, ExecutiveProducer - Moose Man, Bass - Beatmaster "V", Drums - Body Count, MainArtist - Ernie.C, Producer, Mixer, Guitar, Writer - D-Roc, Rhythm Guitar - Bernard Matthews, Engineer
© 1992 Sire Records ℗ 1992 Sire Records Company
Ice-T, Mixer, Rapper Vocals, Writer - HOWIE KLEIN, ExecutiveProducer - Moose Man, Bass - Beatmaster "V", Drums - Body Count, MainArtist - Ernie.C, Producer, Mixer, Guitar, Writer - D-Roc, Rhythm Guitar - Bernard Matthews, Engineer
© 1992 Sire Records ℗ 1992 Sire Records Company
Ice-T, Mixer, Rapper Vocals, Writer - HOWIE KLEIN, ExecutiveProducer - Moose Man, Bass - Beatmaster "V", Drums - Body Count, MainArtist - Ernie.C, Producer, Mixer, Guitar, Writer - D-Roc, Rhythm Guitar - Bernard Matthews, Engineer
© 1992 Sire Records ℗ 1992 Sire Records Company
Ice-T, Mixer, Rapper Vocals - HOWIE KLEIN, ExecutiveProducer - Moose Man, Bass - Beatmaster "V", Drums - Body Count, MainArtist - Ernie.C, Producer, Mixer, Guitar, Writer - D-Roc, Rhythm Guitar - Bernard Matthews, Engineer
© 1992 Sire Records ℗ 1992 Sire Records Company
Ice-T, Mixer, Rapper Vocals, Writer - HOWIE KLEIN, ExecutiveProducer - Moose Man, Bass - Beatmaster "V", Drums - Body Count, MainArtist - Ernie.C, Producer, Mixer, Guitar, Writer - D-Roc, Rhythm Guitar - Bernard Matthews, Engineer
© 1992 Sire Records ℗ 1992 Sire Records Company
Ice-T, Mixer, Rapper Vocals - HOWIE KLEIN, ExecutiveProducer - Moose Man, Bass - Beatmaster "V", Drums - Body Count, MainArtist - Ernie.C, Producer, Mixer, Guitar, Writer - D-Roc, Rhythm Guitar - Bernard Matthews, Engineer
© 1992 Sire Records ℗ 1992 Sire Records Company
Ice-T, Mixer, Rapper Vocals, Writer - Tracy Morrow, Composer - HOWIE KLEIN, ExecutiveProducer - Moose Man, Bass - Beatmaster "V", Drums - Body Count, MainArtist - Ernie.C, Producer, Mixer, Guitar, Writer - Tracy Marrow, Writer - Ernest Cunnigan, Composer - D-Roc, Rhythm Guitar - Bernard Matthews, Engineer
© 1992 Sire Records ℗ 1992 Sire Records Company
Ice-T, Mixer, Rapper Vocals, Writer - HOWIE KLEIN, ExecutiveProducer - Moose Man, Bass - Beatmaster "V", Drums - Body Count, MainArtist - Ernie.C, Producer, Mixer, Guitar, Writer - D-Roc, Rhythm Guitar - Bernard Matthews, Engineer
© 1992 Sire Records ℗ 1992 Sire Records Company
Ice-T, Mixer, Rapper Vocals, Writer - HOWIE KLEIN, ExecutiveProducer - Moose Man, Bass - Beatmaster "V", Drums - Body Count, MainArtist - Ernie.C, Producer, Mixer, Guitar, Writer - D-Roc, Rhythm Guitar - Bernard Matthews, Engineer
© 1992 Sire Records ℗ 1992 Sire Records Company
Ice-T, Mixer, Rapper Vocals, Writer - Tracy Morrow, Composer - HOWIE KLEIN, ExecutiveProducer - Moose Man, Bass - Beatmaster "V", Drums - Body Count, MainArtist - Ernie.C, Producer, Mixer, Guitar - Ernest Cunnigan, Composer - D-Roc, Rhythm Guitar - Bernard Matthews, Engineer
© 1992 Sire Records ℗ 1992 Sire Records Company
Ice-T, Mixer, Rapper Vocals, Writer - HOWIE KLEIN, ExecutiveProducer - Moose Man, Bass - Beatmaster "V", Drums - Body Count, MainArtist - Ernie.C, Producer, Mixer, Guitar, Writer - D-Roc, Rhythm Guitar - Bernard Matthews, Engineer
© 1992 Sire Records ℗ 1992 Sire Records Company
Ice-T, Mixer, Arranger, Rapper Vocals, Writer - Jello Biafra, Voice Over - HOWIE KLEIN, ExecutiveProducer - Moose Man, Bass - Beatmaster "V", Drums - Body Count, MainArtist - Ernie.C, Producer, Mixer, Guitar - D-Roc, Rhythm Guitar - Bernard Matthews, Engineer
© 1992 Sire Records ℗ 1989 Sire Records Company
Album review
Divorced from the controversy that surrounded its release, Body Count's self-titled debut is a surprisingly tepid affair. Apart from the previously released "Body Count" (which appeared on Ice-T's 1991 album O.G. Original Gangster), the record is devoid of serious commentary, trading intelligence for a lurid comic book depiction of sex, violence, and "Voodoo." All of Ice-T's half-sung/half-shouted lyrics fall far short of the standard he established on his hip-hop albums. The controversial "Cop Killer" -- which is nothing more than a standard thrash metal chant -- stands out because it is one of the few tracks that doesn't rely on garish, cartoonish imagery. There's the saga of "Evil Dick," which tells Ice-T not to "sleep alone." There's "KKK Bitch," where he crashes a Ku Klux Klan meeting and screws the grand dragon's daughter. There's "Voodoo," where a witch doctor cripples our hero with a voodoo doll. There's "Mama's Gotta Die Tonight," where Ice-T offs his mother cause she's a racist. By the time the band works around to the power ballad "The Winner Loses" and Ice-T is crooning "My friend's addicted to cocaine," it's unclear whether the record is a parody or a horribly flawed stab at arena metal. It would help if the band wrote riffs that were memorable or if they conveyed a sense of kinetic energy instead of tossing out their riffs in a workmen-like fashion. Perhaps Body Count was intentionally humorous -- although the group's follow-up, Born Dead, suggests that it wasn't -- but in any case, the record was simply embarrassing. After "Cop Killer" was pulled from the album, it was replaced with a bland version of Ice-T's rap classic "The Iceberg" recorded with Jello Biafra.
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 17 track(s)
- Total length: 00:53:10
- Main artists: Body Count
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Rhino - Warner Records
- Genre: Pop/Rock Rock
© 1992 Sire Records ℗ 1992 Warner Records Inc. Marketed by Rhino Entertainment, a Warner Music Group Company
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