Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy – Television, The Drug of the Nation

While taking one of my all too frequent trips on the nostalgia bus, Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy’s album “Hypocrisy is the Greatest Luxury” is often the soundtrack.
It’s release in 1992 had a huge impact on me as an impressionable 15 year old and alongside bands like The 25th of May and Marxman fed my hunger for politically conscious music.

“Television, The Drug of the Nation” was the first single from the album and despite the fact that it’s sometimes a bit clunky lyrically, it’s an absolutely brilliant tirade against the mindlessness of television and the generation embracing it, all wrapped up in an industrial edged hip hop soundtrack.

The band later went on to record “Spare Ass Annie and Other Tales” with William S. Burroughs and then called it a day – frontman Michael Franti forming Spearhead, focusing more on funk and soul and sharpening his song writing and vocal skills but as if often the case, sharpening the edges off in the process.

Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy – Television, The Drug of the Nation

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