The Myth of Rock by Consolidated

The Myth of Rock, released on Nettwerk in 1990, was the first full-length album from Consolidated, the radical activist group featuring Adam Sherburne. It's a collage record in the truest sense: industrial clank and hip-hop breakbeats spliced into sonic cut-ups, with politics shouted right up front.

This was a band that made pop music while openly distrusting it, and the title says as much. Their calling card, the song "Consolidated", works as a manifesto, flatly refusing to be a rock and roll band or a product on a shelf. Their causes were never hard to spot: capitalism, American nationalism, racism, homophobia, animal rights. Plenty found the preaching strident, but there's a streak of self-mocking humor that keeps it from turning into a lecture. College radio bit: the album reached No. 24 on the CMJ Radio Top 150, and "Dysfunctional Relationship" matched that number on the Top Cuts chart.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.