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Friendly Fa$cism

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{{Infobox album

| name = Friendly Fa$cism

| type = Album

| artist = Consolidated

| cover =Friendly Fa$cism.jpg|border=yes

| alt =

| released = 1991

| recorded = Razors Edge, November 1990 - January 1991

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Industrial hip hop

| length = 64:26

| label = Nettwerk Records

| producer = Consolidated

| prev_title = The Myth of Rock

| prev_year = 1990

| next_title = Play More Music

| next_year = 1992

}}

{{music ratings

|rev1 = AllMusic

|rev1score = {{rating|3|5}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/friendly-facism-mw0000265607|title = Friendly Fa$cism - Consolidated | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic|website = AllMusic}}

|rev2 = Robert Christgau

|rev2score = B−{{Cite web|url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?id=275|title=Robert Christgau: CG: Artist 275|website=www.robertchristgau.com}}

}}

Friendly Fa$cism is a full-length album by industrial/hip hop artists Consolidated, released in 1991.{{Cite web|url=https://trouserpress.com/reviews/consolidated/|title=Consolidated}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/07/14/archives/record-brief.html|title=Record Brief|first=Mark|last=Dery|newspaper=The New York Times|date=July 14, 1991}}

"Brutal Equation" and "Unity of Oppression" were alternative rock hits on MTV.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZHP-r9-eqdAC&q=Friendly+Fa%24cism+consolidated+1991&pg=PA281|title=Alternative Rock|first=Dave|last=Thompson|date=June 14, 2000|publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation|isbn=9780879306076|via=Google Books}} The album peaked at #6 on the CMJ Radio Top 150.{{cite journal |editor1-last=Glaser |editor1-first=Mark |title=CMJ Radio Top 150 |journal=CMJ New Music Report |date=12 July 1991 |volume=27 |issue=244 |pages=17–18 |url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/CMJ/1991/CMJ-New-Music-Report-1991-07-12.pdf |access-date=5 November 2021 |publisher=College Media, Inc. |location=Great Neck, NY |issn=0890-0795}}

The name comes from Friendly Fascism: The New Face of Power in America, the title of a 1980 book by political scientist Bertram Gross{{Cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1991/07/05/dance-factories-in-industrial-music/a83d26da-a51f-479e-bee8-c40a3e9ce207/|title=DANCE FACTORIES IN INDUSTRIAL MUSIC|first=Mark|last=Jenkins|date=July 5, 1991|via=www.washingtonpost.com}} which lays out the form of "creeping fascism" that Gross feared might come to pass in the United States.

Critical reception

Trouser Press wrote that "the insufferably self-righteous tone makes the disc hard to endure." Alternative Rock called the album "a hard-hitting soundtrack of hip-hop, funk, soul, and hard rock.

Track listing (CD)

  1. "Zero" – 0:21
  2. "Brutal Equation" – 4:13
  3. "Our Leader" – 1:01
  4. "Unity of Oppression" – 4:01
  5. "The Sexual Politics of Meat" – 3:43
  6. "Typical Male" – 5:18
  7. "Entertainment Tonight" – 0:40
  8. "Dominion" – 4:04
  9. "Friendly Fascism" – 5:01
  10. "College Radio" – 1:27
  11. "We Gotta Have Peace" – 3:30
  12. "Meat Kills" – 3:34
  13. "Stoned" – 6:54
  14. "Your Body Belongs to the State" – 1:49
  15. "Crusading Rap Guys" – 5:29
  16. "Murder One" – 2:52
  17. "White American Male '91 (The Truth Hurts) Part 2" – 5:12
  18. "Music Has No Meaning" – 5:17

Track listing (Vinyl)

Side One

  1. "Zero" – 0:21
  2. "Brutal Equation" – 4:13
  3. "Our Leader" – 1:01
  4. "Unity Of Oppression" – 4:01
  5. "The Sexual Politics Of Meat" – 3:43
  6. "Typical Male" – 5:18
  7. "Entertainment Tonight" – 0:40
  8. "Friendly Fascism" – 5:01

Side Two

  1. "We Gotta Have Peace" – 3:30
  2. "Meat Kills" – 3:34
  3. "Stoned" – 6:54
  4. "White American Male '91 (The Truth Hurts) Part 2" – 5:12
  5. "Music Has No Meaning" – 5:17

References

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Category:1991 albums

Category:Consolidated (band) albums

Category:Anti-fascist music

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