Millions of Dead Cops

Now More Than Ever (Beer City)
by Scott Hefflon

Millions Of Dead Cops, or MDC, are an important punk band, and this 31-song retrospective collects favorite tracks from most of their records over the last 20+ years. They still tour, from what I hear. A friend of mine taped a copy of one of their records for me back in ’87 or so, and this CD sounds only a little better, but that’s part of the charm. Dry and straight-forward, this is fast and angry, political and sometimes silly, a mixture that simply doesn’t occur in the overly self-conscious punk rock world of today. While other fans may have different faves, I still to this day can and do recite the lyrics to “John Wayne Was a Nazi” and “My Family is a Little Weird” (kinda like Ramones’ “We’re a Happy Family”), and plenty of others remind me of a shitty car crammed with punks on the way to a show, the smell of leather jackets, Schaeffer beer, rot gut vodka, and tooth paste (works like hair gel, masks body odor) in the air, yelling along to 30-second blasts of state-smashing goodness.
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