The Third World is just that. Confused, angry; petulant, aware. Through their music they are a musical entity, showing things as they are, examining things as to what they should or could be.

The Third World is this; this and more. The crashing crescendo of cacophonous cadences. The erstwhile endings of ecological editorials. A drag. The helplessness of heroes and anti-heroes gone anticlimatically away.

The Third World has gone a long way beyond the first stirrings of the black movement which spawned it. The coloreds were the third world, but like a country, an oppressed group has more than itself to fight the fight; more.

The Third World, like a hydra, has this as a basis, and like the true hydra, after you leave the trunk of the organism you find many arms. Many arms reaching out. Reaching for something else, trying for something better; something they don't really know, something they can't really do, some music they can't really play.

The third world, today, is all of us: Blacks, Jews, Irish Catholics, Irish Protestants, Arabs, Chicanos, Injuns, railroads, women, men, trombone lubricants, children, adults, whites, wine grapes, Serbo-Croats –name a group, they're part of the third world. And taking place in the third world is ... The Third World.

The Third World is five men, five people, five souls, five brothers; and the way that they get to you is because they are also five musicians.

Get to you; more.

The Third World knows, though, that an album that comes around and hits you in the head, time after time, cut after cut, with good music, such an album can turn you off as quickly as it can turn you on.

It can make you feel put down. So they fuck it up a lot. So The Third World is more than a concern for now. They are about a concern for life. They are a somewhat traditional, if we can apply that term to a hard rock combo, traditional in their genre. They are about love and feelings, emotions and feeling. So is everybody.

And as such, the Third World mirrors life's total experience. After all, life too is also about love, and people to care about. And this too ties in, because if you have no interest in people, you have no interest in the Third World. Because the Third World are people. Try denying that.

This, then, is The Third World. Now.

Now and then. (RS 89)

NICK TOSCHES