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Released 2004

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Girls Like You Make Me Queer
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Sick of It
02:02
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- 1
- Destroying the Planet
- 01:41
- 127 plays

- 2
- Going Nowhere Faster Than You
- 02:19
- 117 plays

- 3
- Founding Fathers - Terrorists or Freedom Fighters?
- 02:02
- 119 plays

- 4
- Poseur Punk
- 02:36
- 159 plays

- 5
- Let's Kill All the Cops
- 02:06
- 149 plays

- 6
- Life But How to Live It
- 01:50
- 114 plays

- 7
- Prime Evil
- 02:04
- 75 plays

- 8
- Time Out
- 01:19
- 83 plays

- 9
- Girls Like You Make Me Queer
- 02:04
- 93 plays

- 10
- Sleep a Little Less, Dream a Little More
- 02:00
- 103 plays

- 11
- Walking on Thin Ice
- 03:31
- 63 plays

- 12
- No More Cops
- 01:26
- 178 plays

- 13
- Long Day, Short Life
- 01:27
- 99 plays

- 14
- Timmy Yo
- 03:03
- 104 plays

- 15
- Nazis Shouldn't Drive
- 01:59
- 186 plays

- 16
- Sick of It
- 02:02
- 89 plays

- 17
- Prick Faced Bastard
- 02:42
- 68 plays

- 18
- Ballad of G.W.
- 02:22
- 111 plays

album review

Gotta give David Dictor credit -- nearly a quarter of a century on from the start of MDC and he's not only still pissed off at the idiocies of the world, he's got the energy of his younger self as well. Magnus Dominus Corpus also features a bit of a reunion of sorts, in that original guitarist X-Con Ron Posner is back in the fold, part of a five-person lineup that kicks things off with the contemptuous "Destroying the Planet" and takes it from there. If anything, Magnus shows most clearly how hardcore punk is very much a folk music of its time and place -- old enough not merely to have roots performers but multiple generations at play, new members of the band helping out elder statesmen. In that sense, brief dollops of reggae and rockabilly (and even a Bush-trashing reworking of the Beverly Hillbillies theme) aside, the music of MDC is traditional -- quick riffs, shout/singing, and damn quick drumming -- leaving it to Dictor to serve as the member calling out what time it is. As such, he has his idée fixes -- two songs in particular, "Poseur Punk" and "Timmy Yo," the latter being the album's one slow ballad, dedicated to his longtime friend and editor Tim Yohannan, are condemnations of those who don't walk the walk punkwise, though whether that's a battle worth fighting will depend on the beholder. That Dictor sounds no different lyrically elsewhere -- two separate songs trash the police, while several rage about the Bush Administration and the Iraq War in particular -- is on the one hand consistent enough and on the other hand makes one wonder whether the symbolic battle needs to be as important as the outright political one. Perhaps more effective than anything is the blunt imagery throughout -- most memorably with the cover image, showing the remains of the hired U.S. mercenaries killed in Fallujah, Iraq, in early 2004, reframing what was portrayed in America as a tragedy into a symbol of revenge. ~ Ned Raggett, All Music Guide