street sweeper social club

this is clap for the killers, a track from street sweeper social club, which features tom morello and boots riley. it is unfortunate there is nothing to look at above but i wanted you to be able to hear the song so...

i can't help but contrast this record with any of the audioslave records. where audioslave songs had power chords and an arena rock sound, sssc has tom morello's signature innovative guitar so reminiscent of rage against the machine. as much as i like chris cornell, everything he has done since soundgarden has sounded contrived and as if he has been trying to find a certain formula or voice of his own sans his former bandmates.

i bought one of the audioslave records, (as well as cornell's first solo record,) and i enjoyed some of the songs on it. still, for both morello and cornell audioslave was rather pedestrian.

boots riley, (formerly of the coup,) is gifted as rappers go. he has a style that is distinctly his own and he has the ability to make rhyming seem somehow fresh in an age when rappers have blended together and become largely irrelevant.

street sweeper social club further combines the political roots and ethos of both morello and riley with an accessibility heretofore unseen. here in los angeles, sssc can be played on kroq, power 106, kiis fm, 100.3 the sound, klos, kcrw, pacifica and perhaps star or any of several other softer stations on the dial. this gives the idea of their music being the bombs and machine guns of a new revolution all the more authenticity. the mass appeal sssc is capable of could contribute to the further edification of the youth of today.

things are changing and there are many forces at work in the world contributing to this end. consider street sweeper social club yet another one of those forces.