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Interviews With David Frost

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With their debut cd Majority Rule have mastered their sound to a point that takes most bands two or three albums to do. Majority Rule play music that would be tough to classify as hardcore. The songs feature just as many blast beats and screamy vocals as they do jazzy bass solos, amazing drum rolls, and hypnotic guitar effects. Although Interviews... bears almost no resemblence to any of the previously released 7"s, fans of the older stuff will find some familliar territory. To compare them to anyone would be to sell them short, but fans of hydrahead, lovitt, or magic bullet should check them out.

This album changed my whole outlook on music. Majority Rule is probably the first hardcore punk band i ever saw live... i was blown away. This album reaches levels of sheer beauty never before attained in by the genre. The screams are passionate and intense, the guitars sound on fire, the bass can go from overdriven and heavy to almost jazzy, and the drums... Pat is one of the best drummers i have ever heard, in any style. If you listen to any hardcore (Converge especially) buy this album. These guys don't have much of a fan base yet but they deserve it.

what can i say.....i dont really get into screamo or crazy fast punk electro emo junk or whatever the kids are into these days. never have been really. my musical tastes are pretty simple : i like what sounds good to me i guess. i somehow heard one of these guys other songs off of Emergency numbers awhile back and was immeadieatly caught off gaurd and honestly blown away at many aspects of this bands music. im 35 years old, and have listened to quite a bit of different stuff all through my life, and this was unlike anything i had ever heard before. and it was good, it was very good.
to describe MR's music is something i cant do. for one, im not really much of a music player or artist at all, so technically, i couldnt say something like "yeah, and the guitar is good here because he uses this scale" or "the drummers 6/4 time is really unique" and so on. all i can say is honestly how i hear the music and what it makes me feel like. and thats honest.
so, the music is really pretty. weird, i know, to hear the word pretty used when describing a "punk" band, but it is. some of these songs have breakdowns that are just plain buetiful. dynamics are all over the place here, another weird thing to admit when talking about punk, as there are generally two distinct forms of dynamics in the genre, loud and fast. well, MR has plenty of that going for it but a lot of tempo change and a lot of quiet, intricate layering going on as well. as a whole, it works really well together, and these guys seem to pour their hearts into each song. this is really, really good music. it makes you feel a lot.
when i did further research into this band, i found out that when they were making this music, they were also very young. like prety much teenagers. wow. that blew me away. this music has a much older feel to it. its not like some kids blowing off smoke and whaling on crappy instruments. this is the music of seasoned veterans playing through high end guitars and drum kits.

you have to just expirience it for yourself.

zach

i heard this cd from a relative of one of the band members. i listened to it. the music on it is really good. the only problem with this album is the singer is too screetchy. its like he was really struggling with the vocals. if he sang, or had a really deep voice, then it would be much better. i feel if they did another cd, and he practiced singing better, then they could do a really good album