- Audio CD (16 Jun 2003)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: Mordam Records
- ASIN: B000094Q2H
- Other Editions: Audio CD | Vinyl | MP3 Download
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 314,480 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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6 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This has to be one of the top compilations of 2003. The Telecopes were one of the finest noise guitar bands from the late 80s. They were hugely influential and mixed witb the likes of Spacemen 3, Loop and Thee Hypnotics. Both their albums have long since been out of print and since their inbfluence on the current guitar scene as grown there has been a demand for material to be rereleased for the youngsters out there who aren't old enough to remembber them in their prime.
This comp blends together, in equal measure, tracks lifted from the first two Telescopes album from the laste 80s and early 90s. The first half of the CD has tracks from "Taste" and they remain as brutally uncompromisingly aggressive as they did back in the day. Unfortunately the Telescopes star waned a bit when the Creation Record producers seemed to dilute their second "Untitled" album. The second half of this CD features choice cuts from that album. It's by far the weaker of the two halves and the Telecopes were to lose their way not long after it was recorded.
So what do they sound like? The stuff from Taste is a wild, very wild, barrage of riffing, screaming and feedback. They were the bastard grandchildren of Iggy's Stooges! The later material is much mellower and spaced out but loses the originality and character of the original.
Amazingly after years away the Telescopes reformed. With another new sound. They could have been huge. But they wewre just too good.
I loved them. I always have.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Worthy introduction to former greats of uk indie music scene
24 Oct 2003
Format:Audio CD
Some ten years later than anticipated a fine compilation appears by these former regulars of the UK indie chart.
What you get here is 7 tracks from the 1st album and a 7 assorted singles. It makes for slightly uneasy listening: the tracks from Taste are mostly satisfyingly brutal chunks of raw noise. I particularly enjoyed the howling guitar sound of I Fall She Screams and the swirling noise of Anticipating Nowhere.
The remaining tracks come from the Creation singles and the change in direction is stark. On the sleeve notes of The House of Love's Creation compilation, label boss Alan McGee writes how everyone had been doing lots of LSD around the recording of their first album and I wonder if perhaps he had fed the Telescopes some kind of hallucinogen as the remaining tracks have a more psychedelic feel, complete with flower-power inspired lines like "Fill my soul with love" and various ohhs and ahhs. These songs range from the mediocre (Never Learn Not To Love) to the inspirational (Celeste).
Overall though it's a very worthwhile purchase, especially as Taste is once again unavailable. However, it could have been better. To Kill A Slow Girl Walking is excluded while the rather ordinary b-side Pure Sweetest Ocean, complete with very long sample of whale music is included. A further compilation including the early singles, plus Peel Sessions would be an ideal follow-up.
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