American Apathy
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American Apathy
- Artist: Dope
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- Release Date: July 26, 2005
- Type: Contains explicit content, Lyrics are included with the album
- Genre: Rock
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"F*ck the world and f*ck you too." That's the message Edsel Dope emblazons on the disc for American Apathy, a blunt and ugly summary of its profound selfishness. Edsel has never really been happy, as the aggro-metal bleat of 2003's Group Therapy proved. But with Apathy, Dope's namesake, singer, multi-instrumentalist, producer, mixer, and co-art director has become a solitary man in blood-streaked dreadlocks screaming obscenities into a humongous, stinking well. The music is his usual brutal industrial metal. A guitar buzzes incessantly over the relentless pistoning of the drums, and everything from the dull, blaring groove to Edsel's angry shriek is processed and filtered to within a millimeter of humanity. It's powerful, but only in the sense that it will beat you to death. Edsel has his bitter anthems -- "I'm Back," "Survive" -- but he's at his wits' end in "No Way Out." "Fuck the World" is even more blatant, a sub-Ministry endorsement of nihilism as joy, because "I pissed off everything/I don't care what you think/I don't need it/F*ck the world." Dope's American Apathy is strikingly similar to (hed) pe's 2004 effort Only in Amerika, where (hed) mouthpiece Jahred endorsed a skewed policy of guns, marijuana, strippers, and ass-kickings. On "I Wish I Was the President," Edsel imagines himself as Commander in Chief. He uses the office for VIP treatment at the strip club and access to free blow and willing porn stars. (To be fair, he also pushes for a "mandatory raise for the underpaid.") American Apathy is unfriendly, uncensored, and unrelenting in its filth and fury. ~ Johnny Loftus, Rovi| American Anthems, Vol. 1 (2007 Album by The Milwaukees) | |
| American Apathy Reloaded (2005 Album by Dope) |
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American Apathy
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| Studio album by Dope | ||||
| Released | July 26, 2005 | |||
| Genre | Nu metal, alternative metal, industrial metal | |||
| Length | 48:25 | |||
| Label | Artemis | |||
| Producer | Edsel Dope | |||
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American Apathy is the fourth studio album by nu metal band Dope. It was released July 26, 2005 on Artemis Records and managed to sell 9,000 copies in its first week according to Nielsen SoundScan the album shows the band going back to the more aggressive style of music they are most known for and the album has a lot more industrial metal and Nu metal elements then the previous album Group Therapy.
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Track listing
All tracks by Edsel Dope and Virus except when noted.
- "I'm Back" - 3:25 (Dope)
- "Survive" - 3:12
- "No Way Out" - 3:27
- "Always" - 3:16
- "Bastard" - 3:26
- "Sex Machine" - 2:51 (Dope, Slade)
- "Four More Years" - 0:17
- "Revolution" - 3:39
- "Let's Fuck" - 2:39
- "Fuck the World" - 3:32 (Dope)
- "I Wish I Was the President" - 4:05 (Dope)
- "Dream" - 2:56 (Dope, Minler, Virus)
- "The Life" - 5:08 (Dope)
- "People Are People" (Depeche Mode cover) - 3:12 (Martin Gore)
American Apathy: Reloaded track listing
- "Bitch" (Alternate Version) - 3:06
- "Fuck the Police" (2005 studio version)(N.W.A. Cover) - 3:48 (Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, MC Ren)
- "Burn" (Featuring the Detroit hate choir) - 3:16
- "Debonair" (Fuck Hollywood mix) - 2:53
- "Now Is the Time" (alternate version) - 2:56
- "Motivation" (alternate version) - 2:55
- "Spin Me Round" (American Psycho mix)(Dead or Alive Cover) - 2:44
- "Bring It on" (Fuck Tomorrow mix) - 3:16
- "Sick" (Bang You're Dead mix) - 3:41
- Only rare initial pressings of the album included all of these bonus tracks onto the Special Edition Version (which also included a Bonus DVD) of the album giving it a total of 23 Tracks.
- In the edited version of the album, the track titles "Let's Fuck", "Fuck the World" and "Fuck tha Police" are changed to "Let's ****", "F.T.W." and "F.T.P." respectively.[1]
Limited edition second disc
- "Debonaire" (Fuck Hollywood mix)
- "Now Is the Time" (alternate version)
- "Motivation" (alternate version)
- "Spin Me 'Round" (American Psycho mix)
- "Bring It On" (Fuck Tomorrow mix)
- "Sick" (Bang You're Dead mix)
The bonus disc only includes newer pressings of the release.
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