Artist: Warrior Soul: mp3 download Genre(s): Other Warrior Soul's discography: The Space Age Playboys Year: 1994 Tracks: 13 Drugs, Dod, and The New Republic Year: 1991 Tracks: 12 Kory Clarke treasured to be the Iggy Pop of the '90s. Through his band, Warrior Soul, the Detroit native concocted his experience Stooges- and MC5-style blend of political activism and art contention tendencies, gave it a '90s spin, and tested to bestow it upon Generation X (the kids, not the band), but they never listened. Earlier a drummer for a number of bands, including Detroit punks L7 (not the all-female L.A. band) and Pennsylvania Southern rockers Raging Slab, Kory Clarke promoted himself to stage front when he founded Warrior Soul with guitar player John Ricco, bassist Pete McLanahan, and drummer Paul Ferguson. Their number one album, 1990's Last Decade, Dead Century, was a decisive sentience, specially in the U.K., wHO promptly embraced the band's political vitriol and insurrectionist rantings as the next big thing. But patch Clarke sure had the potential difference to become Generation X's leading mainstream-bashing poet, the metallic hard careen sound he chose as his vehicle at last lost out to Nirvana's nihilistic post-punk/alternative style. 1991's Drugs, God, and the New Republic (featuring new drummer Mark Evans) took their syndicalist leanings fifty-fifty further, just was significantly subscript on the songwriting social movement, and not even a countrywide financial support term of enlistment with Queensryche (with whom they shared direction from the mighty Q Prime authority) helped farther their movement. The undermentioned year's much improved Salutations From the Ghetto Nation fared no better, and Clarke's interviews became more and more than bitter, focalization on the band's record label, Geffen, whom he accused of ignoring the group's potential difference difference. Eventually, Clarke resorted to an full-scale commonwealth of war, apprisal all wHO would mind that 1993's glaringly average Chill Pill had been botched on purpose in gild to satisfy the band's undertake. The ploy worked, and by early 1994, Warrior Soul was dropped by Geffen. A identification number of lineup changes ensued, beginning with the departure of drummer Evans and the eventual ousting of longtime axeman Ricco, replaced by deuce guitarists: Chris Moffet and Alexander Arundel (aka X-Factor). Clarke and then sought-after to reinvent Warrior Soul as self-appointed cyberpunks for their fifth album, 1995's Space Age Playboys, released on the main Futurist judge. Unfortunately, the purchasing public's continued unconcern solely served to confirm that the band's c. H. Best years were behind them, and McLanahan and Arundel before long chuck up the sponge the radical. Left with no one to blame simply himself, Clarke eventually disbanded Warrior Soul later on that year. A posthumous compendium of demos and outtakes entitled Odds and Ends was released in 1996, and Clarke went on to cast a new band called Space Age Playboys. |