Underrated: Corrosion of Conformity

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Hearing their sorta recent live CD made me remember how great they are / can be. Many missteps, sure, but...anyone else like 'em? Search? Destroy?

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Monday, 1 March 2004 23:59 (9 years ago) Permalink

I don't know what they sound like, but I always kind of liked the look of their fans.

― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 00:02 (9 years ago) Permalink

Tell me more about them, 'cuz I've always wanted to know. I like Blind a lot...so basing ourselves on that...S/D and all that jazz...

― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 00:03 (9 years ago) Permalink

I liked Animosity and some of their later, more orthodox metal stuff, notably "Clean My Wounds," but I never considered them at all crucial.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 00:04 (9 years ago) Permalink

Francis - excepting the bland 'hardcore' of the early days (tho many folks swear by that junk), Blind is one of my least favorites, so if you dig that, you really oughta check out Deliverance and the black album (I forget what its called...It has Haynes from the Allman's on it - America's Voluem Dealers, maybe?) and the aforementioned live album / DVD.

Rockist - what do these fans look like? A cross between Duane Allman and Randy Weaver? yeah that's been my experience too. hahahaha

Alex - yes, "Clean My Wounds" is CLASSIC all the way

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 00:19 (9 years ago) Permalink

Warren Haynes from the Allman Bros played with Corrosion of Conformity??? Fuckin' a, you learn something new everyday. I was just listening to Seven Turns last night. Great album.

― Broheems (diamond), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 00:24 (9 years ago) Permalink

I liked some very early EP I heard by them once upon a time, back when I was writing for CREEM METAL in the mid '80s: *Technocracy,* I think. Everything I heard after that seemed more generic than people seemed to give them credit for. Never understood all the geography experts who claimed COC had something to do with "Southern Rock," though it guess it made a little bit more sense than when people said it about Pantera. Who I still think suck eggs, so sue me.

― chuck, Tuesday, 2 March 2004 02:34 (9 years ago) Permalink

COC I'm now begginning to like a lot. Blind and Deliverance top notch. Are they considered the fathers of "sludge metal"?

― Cacaman Flores, Tuesday, 2 March 2004 02:39 (9 years ago) Permalink

(Actually, if they did record with the Gov't Muler mentioned above, CoC obviously have SOMETHING to do with Southern Rock. But what I mean is that none of the music I've ever heard by them has ever SOUNDED much like Southern Rock. Which isn't to say that they might not have done some Southern-Rock-like music that I DIDN'T hear. They may well have. I'm just skeptical about it, is all, y'all.)

― chuck, Tuesday, 2 March 2004 03:25 (9 years ago) Permalink

Here here, Chuck. Being from the South and playingg rock doesn' automatically make a band a "Southern Rock" band.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 03:37 (9 years ago) Permalink

I've heard a few stories about them that confirm their general hilarity -- in that you laugh at them rather than with them -- but musically they just seemed pretty eh.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 03:38 (9 years ago) Permalink

Animosity rules!! I think I remember Mike Dean singing on parts of Technocracy - the good parts. He was the only good singer they ever had.

― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 04:06 (9 years ago) Permalink

Nah. Pepper holds his own. I didn't like Karl though

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 04:23 (9 years ago) Permalink

I know I seem to be pushing certain peoples buttons the wrong way when I express my dislike for certain musicians styles - especially singers. I'll just leave it at this - I don't really like the direction Pepper took the band in. I guess I'm the only one here who does see the southern rock element in COC. Even back in the Animosity days - which is a record I love. But it was crazy hillbilly-hardcore back in the days... But I just don't like the 90s stuff. I agree that Clean My Wounds and a few others were catchy but most of that stuff is just average. I will always love Animosity though I believe. Thats such a crazy record and there's nothing else like it. I only herad Down a handful of times way back when the first album came out and I can say I liked it better than any 90's COC or anything by Pantera for that matter.

― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 14:21 (9 years ago) Permalink

"Vote With A Bullet" has been making a lot of sense to me this year.

― Phil Freeman (Phil Freeman), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 15:22 (9 years ago) Permalink

Heh heh heh.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 15:24 (9 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

WTF, they have a new record that STANTON MOORE plays drums on? That could be better stunt cast that Megadeth + Vinnie Coliauta. Could it possibly be good?

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 16:41 (7 years ago) Permalink

animosity is classic, obviously.
blind is totally underappreciated.
deliverance ain't bad.
much love for the weatherman/dean snake nation project.

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 22:13 (7 years ago) Permalink

The new album's really good.

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 23:12 (7 years ago) Permalink

Pepper Keenan rents from the video store I work at. I was like whoa.

― adam (adam), Thursday, 26 May 2005 13:56 (7 years ago) Permalink

What does he rent?

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 26 May 2005 14:09 (7 years ago) Permalink

What does he rent?

"Beaches", "Prince of Tides", "Steel Magnolias"

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 26 May 2005 14:18 (7 years ago) Permalink

Well I just started so I've only seen him the one time. He rented White Noise--not great, exactly, but not Sluts With Nuts.

― adam (adam), Thursday, 26 May 2005 14:18 (7 years ago) Permalink

2 weeks pass...

"In the Arms of God" is really! Although after listening to it once I don't remember the songs so much as Stanton Moore's fantastically loose Bill Ward/Bonham drumming.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 10 June 2005 00:07 (7 years ago) Permalink

"In the Arms of God" is the best song COC have recorded in well over a decade. And yeah, the drumming on the entire album is incredible.

― a. begrand (a begrand), Friday, 10 June 2005 04:53 (7 years ago) Permalink

3 years pass...

― wilter, Friday, 22 May 2009 12:53 (3 years ago) Permalink

my high school band used to open for them when they played all ages hardcore shows in the basement of a churrch in durham, so naturally i like they're early hardcore stuff. it's actually pretty complicated, multi-timesignature stuff that doesn't sound completely unlike reign in blood-era slayer

― messiahwannabe, Saturday, 23 May 2009 07:06 (3 years ago) Permalink

10 months pass...

albatross is heavy metal, no fucking w/it

― wilter, Tuesday, 23 March 2010 10:49 (3 years ago) Permalink

I remember them from ages ago. Reflection reveals they really had an incredibly stupid name.

― Freedom, Tuesday, 23 March 2010 13:15 (3 years ago) Permalink

2 months pass...

I feel like listening to these guys again for the 1st time in like 12 years

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 18:56 (2 years ago) Permalink

I saw COC supporting Metallica at the Glasgow Barrowland in 1996. Pepper Keenan was trying to whip the crowd up but most weren't interested apart from the front few rows.

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 19:05 (2 years ago) Permalink

― how do i spud webb (am0n), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 19:21 (2 years ago) Permalink

COC/Prong at Katina's 1991, good times

― No one is too good for this album; it is better than all of us. (herb albert), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 20:05 (2 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

Thoughts on the new self-titled?

― Gonjasufjanstephen O'Malley (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 22:31 (1 year ago) Permalink

Only 3/4ths of the way through my first listen and it sounds alright to me, but I've not really listened to these guys since Deliverance.

― Gonjasufjanstephen O'Malley (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 22:50 (1 year ago) Permalink

v diff band imo

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 23:53 (1 year ago) Permalink

Well, yeah, pretty different without Pepper but I don't really like think they're awful now.

― Gonjasufjanstephen O'Malley (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 23 February 2012 22:13 (1 year ago) Permalink

preferred pre pepper stuff anyway!

― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Thursday, 23 February 2012 23:06 (1 year ago) Permalink

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 24 February 2012 06:29 (1 year ago) Permalink

I heard the new record yesterday and enjoyed the listen. If nothing else, it got me interested in staying for their set on the upcoming tour.

― EZ Snappin, Friday, 24 February 2012 13:27 (1 year ago) Permalink

preferred pre pepper stuff anyway!

― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Thursday, February 23, 2012 6:06 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, February 24, 2012 1:29 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol, ridiculous.

― You're a notch, I'm a legend (Bill Magill), Friday, 24 February 2012 14:17 (1 year ago) Permalink

you sure are bill! but please dont change!

― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Friday, 24 February 2012 20:32 (1 year ago) Permalink

new albums pretty good

― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Saturday, 25 February 2012 01:34 (1 year ago) Permalink

2 weeks pass...

They were surprisingly great live. Vocals were nothing to write home about, but trio was tight as hell and the crowd ate it up. Played stuff from their whole catalog, as far as I could tell. Hearing "Mad World" was awesome.

― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 05:37 (1 year ago) Permalink

"Animosity" is such a total stone cold classic album, I'm so bummed I missed the reformed Animosity lineup show at Deathfest last year . . . argh. "Holier" is my jam

― the tune is space, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 05:44 (1 year ago) Permalink

yessss

― the tune is space, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 05:45 (1 year ago) Permalink

so good.

― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 05:54 (1 year ago) Permalink

6 months pass...

I had literally never heard a single note by this band, but I found Animosity today used on vinyl and decided to give it a whirl. Listening to it now... Solid stuff! Now I have to go see if it was in that '80s hard rock poll that just concluded (I can't remember); it belongs there!

― Clarke B., Thursday, 4 October 2012 22:49 (7 months ago) Permalink

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