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...For The Whole World To See [CD]

Death Audio CD
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The East Detroit-based proto-punk outfit Death formed in 1973 around the talents of siblings David, Bobby, and Dannis Hackney. The brothers, who had spent previous summers banging out soul and funk jams, began to gravitate toward the deafening assault of bands like Black Sabbath, MC5, Alice Cooper, and the Stooges, resulting in a volatile live set and demo that found favor with Detroit's ... Read more in Amazon's Death Store

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  • Audio CD (9 Feb 2009)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: CD
  • Label: Drag City
  • ASIN: B001NY71F4
  • Other Editions: Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 39,065 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Listen  1. Keep On Knocking 2:50£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  2. Rock-N-Roll Victim 2:41£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  3. Let The World Turn 5:56£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  4. You're A Prisoner 2:24£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  5. Freakin Out 2:48£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  6. Where Do We Go From Here??? 3:50Album Only
Listen  7. Politicians In My Eyes 5:50£0.89  Buy MP3 


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Death were the Hackney brothers, three young black musicians in the melting-pot of mid-70s Detroit. After they began to absorb the rock and roll sounds of local heroes like Alice Cooper and Iggy and the Stooges, they traded the strength of the r'n'b and funk that they'd been raised on for the strength of the rock music that was in the air all around them. With a set of new songs displaying their vigorous application to this new music (as well as they chops they'd developed playing funky soul music), they recorded an album's worth of songs before quitting in a fury of youthful passion over the divisively rockin' name of Death they'd chosen for themselves.

Today, this music drives like the music that became known as punk rock just a few years later -- but with the originality that only the Hackney brothers could bring to it in their brief shining moment. ...For the Whole World to See is powerful stuff from any age -- see the download track "Politicians In My Eyes" and feel all doubt surge away from you. The rest of the album is just as awesome.

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CD "Classic Proto-Punk From 1970S Detroit"//1974 Album

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5.0 out of 5 stars Furious and angry rock music from Motor City 15 Nov 2011
By Al Most
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Before that record was eventually released (35 years after its recording), very few people would have thought that punk music was invented in Detroit in the mid-70's. Even fewer people would have believe that punk music could reach such a level of perfection.
This is THE absolute must-have for anyone with the slightest interest in either heavy funk, soul-rock, hard-rock or (of course) punk music
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When Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus first uttered those famous words above, I'm sure that he didn't have a little known rock 'n' roll group from Detroit in mind. But when, in 1974, three african-american brothers by the birth name of Hackney (Bobby, Dannis & David) decided to record a 12-song LP, the title of which was to be a call to arms for the worlds undivided attention, he could well have been contemplating their eventual destiny & place in musical history.

The Death story truly belongs in rock 'n' roll mythology. The three brothers were first introduced to the magic of 'the devil's music' by their father when in the early 60's he sat them down to witness the first of The Beatles legendary performaces on US variety show 'The Ed Sullivan Show' (Febuary 9th 1964). The day after this momentus occasion it is reputed that David Hackney was to find a discarded guitar in an alley behind their family home and set forth to learn all the wonders that the instrument had to offer. Brothers Bobby & Dannis soon followed suit and the story of Death's inception is now set in stone. Nearly.

When the brothers first started out they were plying their trade as an R&B group (back when that term actually meant something) calling themselves Rock Fire Funk Express. It was only with the epithany that an Alice Cooper live show brought them that urged David and his siblings to change their name to 'Death' and take a more rock oriantated approach to their own music. In doing so they were to become one of the real fore-runners of the punk movement of the late 70's and attain a truly special place amongst the great 'lost' bands of theirs or any era (you know the place, it also contains The Modern Lover's teenage angst, The Soft Boy's psychotic doodlings & d.boon's eternal soul).

After recording a 12 song LP in 1974 the band were asked by Columbia Records to change their name (more preciscely they were asked by american uber-producer & executive Clive Davis, who has had a major role in countless acts careers, most notably Janis Joplin, Iggy Pop, Earth Wind & Fire and, uh, Milli Vanilli. Kind of falls away a little with that last one, no?). When the band point blankly refused, apparently telling local record promoter Brian Spears of Groovesville (who'd once worked with the legend that is George Clinton) that 'Clive Davis can go to hell', the recorded music went away in storage and was never to be heard of again. Thankfully in 2009, indie label Drag City (home to Pavement, Joanna Newsom, Will Oldham & Royal Trux amongst many other greats) deemed fit to release the 7 surviving songs as this long awaited LP, '...For The Whole World To See'. And history can now breath a huge sigh of relief.

The record is a blistering slice of proto-punk that brings memories of great luminaries such as The Stooges, MC5 and the whole CBGB's movement. Opener 'Keep On Knocking' almost sounds like a lost Beatles standard played for kicks, the lenghly 'Let The World Turn' predates Television by a generation and barn-storming closer 'Politicians In My Eyes' is surely the great 'lost' song of the Vietnam war (just to think, as america was belattedly pulling it's troops from the jungle nightmare this animilistic vendetta was pouring from this incredibly anit-corparate act. The more things change...). Fans of acts as diverse as the MC5, Love, Television, The Ramones, Chic and Sly & The Faimly Stone will all find something to adore in this music and it is only sad that the world remains as blind now as it was in 1974.

Also, thanks to Robert Manis of Chicago who's great music taste and unrelenting drive ultimately led to this release. Thank you sir, we are eternally grateful.
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4.0 out of 5 stars this should have come out over 30 years ago 3 Aug 2009
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Three black blood brothers from Detroit that played tight R'n'B and Soul before they went to an Alice Cooper concert. That night exposed them to the world of Proto Punk/Garage Rock and bands like the Stooges and MC5 so they deceided to go Rock N Roll. The band played regulary from their moms Garage to audiences and were subsequentley offered a big record deal with Columbia that they famously turned down due to the fact that Columbia wanted them to change their name. They obvisously did the best thing but I can't help feel that this should of come out when it was made and NOT just now in 2009. Hence some of the tracks feel dated but if we grew up with it, the world would've been a better place. Therefore i only gave it 4 out of 5 stars even thoughy it deserves 5 out of 5. Again we have the major labels to blame for this so for that reason alone; BUY IT and stick it to the man...
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