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Overlooked Synth Rock Gem

Good ol' Mad at the World (MATW).  Musical chameleons.  They've done everything from synth pop to goth rock to 60s pop/rock to psychedelic rock.  They rarely stuck to the same genre for more than 2 records.  I can recall 1991 when I was 17, an avid synth pop fan, and looking for the "Christian alternative."  I stumbled onto the cassette of this album and can distinctly remember wearing it out to the point that the lyric sheet fell apart.  There is great pop songcraft happening here.  Unfortunately, anyone who places even moderate value on updated production standards might have a hard time getting past the tinny drum sounds.  The band tackles lots of dark issues lyrically (suicide, depression, loss of innocence) with far less gloss than most of their 80s CCM contemporaries, but still with a blunt God-centered focus. You can hear influences of popular 80s synth based groups like Depeche Mode, Oingo Boingo, Pet Shop Boys, and Dead or Alive.  In fact, Roger Rose's vocal delivery is remarkably similar to Pete Burns at times.  If ever the "Christian band" tag was befitting of a band, it certainly applies to MATW.  But, any fan of late 80s synth rock could hardly go wrong with this.  This album may be dated sonically, but as far as songcraft is concerned, it's a couple of notches above the rest in this genre.

MATW Ahead of it's time lyrically

I won this album in a radio contest and was plesently surprised to find a group that was dealing with difficult issues that were deemed too dark within Comtemporary Christian Music at that time ('86). It's one of my favorites of that time.

Unique offering in the CCM market during it's time.

For a pre-Pro Tools era, this debut by Orange County's MATW (Roger, then a US Postal worker and brother Randy Rose) is quite one-of-a-kind. Without even hearing this album bought from a Coconuts record store chain based on the album cover, it was quite the surprise. Emulating sounds from the UK techno-pop era of the 80's, MATW fashioned every conceivable sound and made a technically, if not creatively, brilliant album for the Contemporary Christian Music scene which was starved of any type of alternative music.

Needless to say, it didn't impress my Depeche Mode/ The Cure fan-friends (they detested the clonic sounds and Fake English warbling by Roger Rose), but gave me an alternative to the doom and gloom of nihilistic melancholy kings Depeche Mode and The Cure. Unfortunately, MATW would eventually do away with all the sequencing (due in large to a rather catastrophic event that erased their floppy disks before a big performance at c-stone, leaving them keyboard-less) and become a guitar goth band ala Jesus and Mary Chain, leaving the techno-crowd in the dust.

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