Happy 25th Anniversary to MAJORITY RULE’s “Interviews With David Frost” LP. This album and this band are rare things in the sense that, while both were ahead of their time musically, production-wise, and politically, virtually every facet ended up being widely adopted not just across the subculture, but in very much above-ground albums, presentations, and even in the mouths of talking heads across the media landscape. A lot of us who worked on and/or listened to the album and believe in its messaging still get whiplash when hearing the same sentiments now casually being expressed in any given conversation you could overhear in your neighborhood dog park.
I’d attribute that to Majority Rule always having it dialed in on all fronts from this record on. Sonically, while most of us in their orbit would just turn up as loud as we could in any given room, Pat, Kevin, and Matt could always override those primal tendencies and quickly calibrate a sonic balance that was ultimately optimal for their unique dynamic range and the room itself. I can’t count how often our friends and mutuals would express loving jealousy as we all stood and watched the band play night in and night out.
Just as impressively, the messaging and ethos of the album and the band just continued on for the past two decades and a half, both in subsequent Majority Rule albums and in
@nomanband , the band they’ve been doing with
@mahashami almost ever since.
It’s an honor to be a custodian to such a tremendously special album. Every time a new pressing is in order, a unique sensation overwhelms… perhaps a deep appreciation that new generations of people who, in a general sense, *demand more* still find potency in a musical work that was truly always calibrated right on target.
Thank you to
@pat_broderick_or_whatever /
@kevinlamiell / and
@vivastudiova for deeply inspiring then and now… and constantly blowing minds. ♥️
(Pictured: the first Magic Bullet pressing on white vinyl)
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