Recensione veloce veloce sull'album che ha aperto l'importante carriera dei Biohazard, non essendo ancora stato recensito.

La storia inizia a Brooklyn nel 1990, quando il quartetto Seinfeld-Graziadei-Hambel-Schuler pubblica un disco autointitolato contenente 13 tracce. Il ritmo è subito riconoscibile, sull'onda dell'hardcore dei Cro-Mags e degli altri gruppi che hanno tracciato il solco di questo nuovo genere, fuso con evidenti influenze metal. Già qui si affaccia il dualismo tra le due voci, quella ruvida di Seinfeld e quella potente di Graziadei, che hanno reso celebre la band. Tuttavia, se comparato ai successivi due dischi (che di fatto hanno completato la loro maturazione), presenta molti pezzi rap e un sound più leggero, accompagnato dagli assoli di Bobby Hambel, chitarrista ultra-sottovalutato.

Partiamo con "Retribution", "Victory" e "Blue Blood" (veramente splendida, sotto tutti i punti di vista), tre celebri pezzi dell'old school, passando poi per una versione primitiva della spintissima "Wrong Side Of The Tracks", ripresa anche in "Urban Discipline" (così come "Hold My Own"), altri pezzi niente male come "Justified Violence" e "Survival Of The Fittest", fino alla conclusiva "Scarred For Life", dall'insolito intro di piano.

Sound acerbo, a volte è ancora troppo perso nel rap, ma di fatto ha spianato la strada a quello che sarebbero diventati, e ogni tanto lo si può riascoltare a mente libera, se si è fan come me. Ad altri potrebbe non piacere.

Elenco tracce e testi

01   Retribution (04:25)

Why do you lie, why do you cheat
Why do you try and deceive
Always twisting around what you say
You better change your foolish ways
This world does not need
Always finding new friends to betray
Payback now
Chorus:
Gonna get yours
what's coming to you
Gonna get yours,
It's the big payback now
See what you've done to me you fool,
I payback now
Backstabber, Payback now
I can't find reason to believe
any word you say is true
Always living surrounded by lies
unless it comes from deep within
Honesty's not for you
Your actions will end in your demise
Payback now
Chorus
I entrusted you
and you stabbed me in the back
Trust is what you earn
Tell me that respect I lack
Reason to believe any other word to use
for what you've done to me
In the end you'll be the one to lose
In the end you'll be the one to lose
I entrusted you - wrong
And you stabbed me in the back
Trust is what you earn - fool
Tell me that respect I lack
Reason to believe - lies
Any other word to use
for what you've done to me
In the end you'll be the one to lose
Chorus
Victory
Life, a losing battle
Existence I abhor
Lives, condemned by sins
of those who lived before
Chorus:
Distraught, depressed
World of confusion
Victory of death
The only solution
Every day is agony
My thoughts are so unclear
To face my harsh reality
There's no one I endear
Chorus

02   Victory (02:29)

Life, a losing battle
Existence I abhor
Lives, condemned by sins
of those who lived before

Chorus:

Distraught, depressed
World of confusion
Victory of death
The only solution

Every day is agony
My thoughts are so unclear
To face my harsh reality
There's no one I endear

Chorus

(Biohazard from Brooklyn NY, in your FACE !)

03   Blue Blood (02:29)

04   Howard Beach (02:09)

Total uproar, Media explodes
Inter-racial violence totally unloads
Those not from the streets
speak naivetees
Urban youth repeat it's just reality
Howard Beach (3x)
Media raging, A battle of TV ratings
Jackass bureaucracy fuels
the fire of hating
Unfortunate happening of
a young man's death
Creating racial tension with every breath
Howard Beach (3x)
Media Bullshit
Next time you put on the TV screen
And the man is preaching
About shit he's never seen
Change the channel and ignore the fool
Get out in the streets
then you go to school
Howard Beach (3x)

05   Wrong Side of the Tracks (03:54)

You're a fish out of the water
On the wrong side of the tracks
Gather up the boys
To come and take your back
We stand all together
Against the opposed
We'll die for our brethren
That we have chose
On the wrong side of the tracks
On the wrong side of the tracks
Education
War in the streets
Catch one suck
and he gets beat
What you see
Is what you get
Soft, phony suckers
Will soon meet their end
On the wrong side of the tracks
On the wrong side of the tracks
It didn't take you long
to hear me sing the song
Cuz I'm the bad mother from the wrong
Side of the tracks
Yo! Hey I'm from around the way
You'd better not stray on the wrong
Side of the tracks
Ducking from the 5-0
Didn't know where to go
Never should have stepped on the wrong
Side of the tracks
Hey! yo cuz I'm good to go
I gotta get back from the wrong
Side of the tracks
Chorus:
Across the tracks
No one takes your back
Across the tracks
Across the tracks,
No one takes your back
Across your back
The boys in the gang
want to see me hang
I had my bells rang on the wrong
Side of the tracks
Strapped - a broken pact
Caught in a trap on the wrong
Side of the tracks
Wrong or right I had to fight
I ran for daylight to the right
Side of the tracks
A lesson to learn
when the tables are turned
You might get burned on the wrong
Side of the tracks

06   Justified Violence (04:09)

07   Skinny Song (02:27)

08   Hold My Own (02:38)

It looks like the system
tries to hold me down
But guess what? I ain't fucking around
You can't deny the pride
that I have shown
I grind hard and I must hold my own
Coming from the gutter
It's so hard to get ahead
Taking no one's bullshit
and working for my bread
The future don't look positive,
the rat race holds me down
What a struggle keeping
two feet on the ground
Someday I'll have my peace of mind
I'll keep fightin', one day I will find
A decent life where self-respect is shown
Until then I must hold my own
Always under pressure
I take things as they come
Always looking up,
look out for number one!
My views got you in check,
I never back down,
I pack a hard punch,
and I always stand my ground
I - will not back down
Holding my own, I stand my ground
You will not break me
My belief is my way can't you see ?
Coming from the gutter
It's so hard to get ahead
Taking no one's bullshit
and working for my bread
The future don't look positive,
the rat race holds me down
What a struggle keeping
two feet on the ground
Never back down
Pain
Agony - Inside my head
Making me wish - wish that I was dead
For all the dues in life that I have paid
I've been caught
locked in a world of rage
I look inside myself,
I see a great big blank
I look around me
and there is no one to thank
I think about the crazy shit
that I have done
This game of life - can it be won ?
Pain
Chorus:
Pain - feel my agony
as it turns into my rage
in life full of anguish
can't you see I live in
Hell - becomes misery
metamorphasizing hate
I contemplate my demise
can't you feel my pain ?
Searching for a better way
In a world with it's eyes closed
Hold your head up high (2X)
Chorus

09   Pain (02:35)

Agony - Inside my head
Making me wish - wish that I was dead
For all the dues in life that I have paid
I've been caught
locked in a world of rage

I look inside myself,
I see a great big blank
I look around me
and there is no one to thank
I think about the crazy shit
that I have done
This game of life - can it be won ?
Pain

Chorus:
Pain - feel my agony
as it turns into my rage
in life full of anguish
can't you see I live in
Hell - becomes misery
metamorphasizing hate
I contemplate my demise
can't you feel my pain ?

Searching for a better way
In a world with it's eyes closed
Hold your head up high (2X)

Chrous

10   Panic Attack (03:30)

Which way to turn, is there any way out ?
Inside my mind I scream and shout
Terrible anguish,
what's happening to me ?
Somebody please set my soul free
Dug induced or maybe insane
What the fuck is wrong with my brain ?
Only grows stronger, pain it grows bigger
Somebody please pull the damn trigger
Anxiety, the panic attack
Any way for me to get back
Heart is racing, mind is a blur
Cold sweat, palpitations occur
Discontent with life (2X)
Get this monkey of my back
Anxiety, the panic attack
Someone to talk or maybe a friend
Only draws nearer the ominous end
Heart racing faster, just might explode
It's all in my head, that's what I'm told
Consummate professional curing my ills,
Stop wasting my time
with those dumb little pills
Who can I cry to? I turn here and there
Tears on my pillow, I rip out my hair
Lost count of the girls
Still I'm not sane or content
with this world
Discontent with life
Discontent with life

11   Survival of the Fittest (02:16)

Only the strong survive
Living all these days for myself, not you
Mind your own business I do what I do
All of you who like to preach all day
Now hear what I have to say
The smell of leather makes me high
I feel good inside when you cry
nor remorse is felt when you sigh
because skin keeps me warm and dry
Chorus (2X)
To wear my boots, I'll take a hide
To feed my face, I'll kill with pride
In this world of survival
Those with strength will have no rival
I'll smile as I drive down the street
sitting in my car with plush leather seats
survival of the fittest and that is the beat
and I eat all of the meat
Don't get me wrong
I come from the streets
I'll tell you now it's strong over weak
You slow - you blow
and you will meet your defeat
Now you will understand
Chorus
You will understand now

12   There & Back (04:01)

13   Scarred for Life (04:34)

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