The performance is live at the Troubador in L.A., which adds to the intensity as this is Ice's homebase. He went to high school with all the original members, which I didn't know. The group has been out of commission and off the radar for a while (although I guess they had a tour in 2004). So there's the comeback factor, plus they're filming a DVD; it all adds up to a hell of a performance and worth a few bucks to pick this goddamm thing up and crank the volume past 10.

Congrats to Body Count on the comeback and I hope we haven't seen the last of them, yet again. Peace.

Notice how I made it through this whole thing without mentioning the whole "Cop Killer" controversy? That would be pretty damn 1982 of me, I thought. So discuss it among yourselves if you gotta, but Dan Quayle (was that who it was?) can still eat a dick up. I will say in postscript that looking through the Yahoo reviews I noticed some guy saying he paid a $100 for the original CD with this song on it. Wow. (The song was cut from later pressings due to political pressure.) Makes me glad I grabbed and still have the original.