White Rider

Skrewdriver (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 29, 2008)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: CDBY
• ASIN: B001EGFSJC
• Also Available in: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #172,037 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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0 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Absolute masterpiece, November 15, 2009

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bozoskeletonz (slc, ut) - See all my reviews

This review is from: White Rider (MP3 Download)

This is music at its best. if your not sure just download strikeforce then let it soak in. Amazing.

4 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Sonic Retardation, April 23, 2010

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Mike (NYC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: White Rider (MP3 Download)

One of my acquaintances insisted the "musicianship" on this album was fantastic and "though he didn't agree with all of it", thought "Skrewdriver made some good points". He lent it to me. Normally I'd decline, but I was curious what it sounded like since I'd heard about them for years, but never wanted to give them any money, what with them being flagrant racists and all. In case you're wondering, the KKK guy on the front should be an obvious tip-off that this is a racist group, no matter what euphemism you want to use for racism.

Needless to say upon plunking it into my car stereo, I found the musicianship to be pretty average. This confirmed what I always had suspected - my acquiantance was a closet racist.

The music is pretty generic bar band stuff. I thought it would sound more Oi!/ hardcore and the guitarist would be worse. In fairness, apart from the singer, who's awful, it kind of sounds like a knockoff of Southside Johnny or the Lazy Cowgirls/garage end of punk if they were incredibly racist and their bands weren't as good. From a technical musical perspective, I've heard worse, even though the production is terrible.

Still, it seems really slow for aggro/skinhead music. Actually it's ridiculously slow. One song, "Snow Fell" is an amateurish folk ballad about how Soviet Communism was bad. At least the band realizes Communist Totalitarianism was bad. I suppose that's a step in the right direction. Too bad they don't realize Nazi Totalitarianism wasn't exactly great for all parties involved, either. In practice and from the perspective of people like me, who work for a living (i.e. don't have the luxury of travelling all over while being supported by fringe political parties), all totalitarianisms basically amount to the same thing - no rights.

Maybe this album is more for geriatric skinheads, I don't know. I can't see how Power Ballads and such about "whiteness" and against the Reds would get anyone revved up. Apart from the lyrics, half of this sounds more like something they'd play in the background at a dentist's ofice or on an elevator than something you could work out too.

At least bands like the Business have fast music with shout-a-long choruses. This stuff really just sounds like a racist hard rock bar band. If they didn't have the racism schtick going for them, I doubt they'd have sold any records and would be the house band at a bar somewhere in NJ.

Lyrics are hysterical, awful, and deeply offensive. Case in point - "Strikeforce" includes the catchy line - "Strikeforce - White Survival". The lyrics are about as subtle as a sledgehammer. Apparently the fellow who wrote the lyrics went to the Stan Bush school of lyrics-writing. Lyrics consists of stupid maxims and platitudes, followed by a poor man's arena-rock chorus where one phrase is repeated over and over. Often the phrase doesn't even rhyme. If you find lukewarm anthemic choruses to be convincing logical arguments, please just shoot yourself.

Significantly below average taken on its own. Abysmal when taken in social context. Recommended for no one.

SHARPs and working class types have the Dropkick Murphys, Agnostic Front, The Business, Stars and Stripes, Blood for Blood. Even if you're a racist, I've heard better music out there, not that I'll promote any of it in my review.