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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Awesome début album from the greatest rock band of the 80s, and one of the best of all time. Gun Shy is an album of inspired ferocity laced with infectious fun, Bill Carter's blistering riffs ripped from a searing guitar seemingly teetering on the edge of chaos as it rides the powerful, driving bass-lines of Chris Thompson and the incredible, pounding speed-drumming of the amazing Kenny Harris. Seldom have three musicians generated such a pervasive, addictive wall of sound. Every track on the album earns its place, though I'm particularly fond of Wild Blue Yonder, Let's Go Down to the Woods, the utterly manic power of Twin Cadillac Valentine, President Kennedy's Mile and the wild, howling Clear View. But the whole album is a total adrenaline rush. Extraordinary. So where's the reissue? Everything else ever put on record now seems to be available on CD, of whatever dubious merit (Mrs Mills anyone?), so a band as outstanding as the Messiahs are way overdue a re-release.
Well, waddaya know? You post a few rave reviews on Amazon suggesting CD reissues and, lo and behold, the CDs get reissued!!! People power rocks! Yay! Who-hoo!!! So, no excuses ... get 'em now!
Bikini Red Second album ...
Screaming Blue Messiahs Live at the Beeb ...
Well, waddaya know? You post a few rave reviews on Amazon suggesting CD reissues and, lo and behold, the CDs get reissued!!! People power rocks! Yay! Who-hoo!!! So, no excuses ... get 'em now!
Bikini Red Second album ...
Screaming Blue Messiahs Live at the Beeb ...
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I loved the Screaming Blue Messiahs back in the day. They were though, a live band first and foremost being a power trio that made a ferocious noise. Their major label output, has been criminally unavailable for years, with Electra turning down many requsets for licensing over the years. Until now....oh joy!
Ok, firstly the reissue. Basic. No sleeve notes and a straight copy of the artwork (from the US version I believe) complete with credits that transfer to CD size as impossible to read for an man of my advancing years. No frills at all, but the music is what matters, and there is nothing wrong at all with the quality there. A very good sound transfer that takes nothing away from enjoying the debut album of a much loved band of my past.
While holding a special place in my heart, the Electra albums never lived up to the initial mini (indie) album "Good And Gone", their live performances and live recordings. Even The Peel Sessions EP if you ever see that, and the live tracks on the "Twin Cadillac Valentine EP" were just explosive. The major albums seemed to polish off a few too many rough edges from the blues-punk powerhouse songs. However, don't misread my comment, this is an essential purchase for anyone. 'You're Gonna Change' and 'Someone To Talk To' flex their muscles just as I remember, and 'Twin Cadillac Valentine' makes a noise that should be impossible for 3 people to make. The other tracks I am so familiar with sound quite jaunty compared to the live versions I prefer, but there is no denying the playing, writing and power within this band. The tension that eventually ripped them apart, did at least make for an aggresive sound that by rights should have seen them go global. Much like The Godfathers of more or less the same era, their star should have shined much longer and much brighter. Still, at least if gives them a cult sheen that old codgers like me can be all smug about in that we were there at the time. I want to share that secret. Every house should own some Screaming Blue Messiahs. The price of this reissue is scary, I agree, but you have to pay for quality, and quality this is.
I thought long and hard about my star rating. One deducted due to the sleeve transfer, and the lack of extra live tracks to contrast against the well behaved originals here. Lets be clear though, a tame Messiahs record is still way better than most bands ever manage.
Bikini Red is reissued too. Goody.
Ok, firstly the reissue. Basic. No sleeve notes and a straight copy of the artwork (from the US version I believe) complete with credits that transfer to CD size as impossible to read for an man of my advancing years. No frills at all, but the music is what matters, and there is nothing wrong at all with the quality there. A very good sound transfer that takes nothing away from enjoying the debut album of a much loved band of my past.
While holding a special place in my heart, the Electra albums never lived up to the initial mini (indie) album "Good And Gone", their live performances and live recordings. Even The Peel Sessions EP if you ever see that, and the live tracks on the "Twin Cadillac Valentine EP" were just explosive. The major albums seemed to polish off a few too many rough edges from the blues-punk powerhouse songs. However, don't misread my comment, this is an essential purchase for anyone. 'You're Gonna Change' and 'Someone To Talk To' flex their muscles just as I remember, and 'Twin Cadillac Valentine' makes a noise that should be impossible for 3 people to make. The other tracks I am so familiar with sound quite jaunty compared to the live versions I prefer, but there is no denying the playing, writing and power within this band. The tension that eventually ripped them apart, did at least make for an aggresive sound that by rights should have seen them go global. Much like The Godfathers of more or less the same era, their star should have shined much longer and much brighter. Still, at least if gives them a cult sheen that old codgers like me can be all smug about in that we were there at the time. I want to share that secret. Every house should own some Screaming Blue Messiahs. The price of this reissue is scary, I agree, but you have to pay for quality, and quality this is.
I thought long and hard about my star rating. One deducted due to the sleeve transfer, and the lack of extra live tracks to contrast against the well behaved originals here. Lets be clear though, a tame Messiahs record is still way better than most bands ever manage.
Bikini Red is reissued too. Goody.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
The Screaming Blue Messiahs were a band of epic proportions that deserved to have received heavy-weight record company support, but never achieved due recognition.
Gun Shy was their first full-length album and is their best. I have had this on vinyl for years and lived in fear of its survival owing to the fact that the CD was on sale from £125 upwards!! This reissue at sensible prices is thus a great relief. There are two additional tracks on the CD relative to vinyl, and these tend to lighten the overall impact a little, and emphasise the rockabilly edge. I have to say that I think the sound on the CD is a little thinner than on vinyl, but such tracks as Talking Doll, Twin Cadillac Valentine, Clearview, and the enormous Killer Born Man still deliver with an intensity which astonishing. You can always turn it up!
Gun Shy was their first full-length album and is their best. I have had this on vinyl for years and lived in fear of its survival owing to the fact that the CD was on sale from £125 upwards!! This reissue at sensible prices is thus a great relief. There are two additional tracks on the CD relative to vinyl, and these tend to lighten the overall impact a little, and emphasise the rockabilly edge. I have to say that I think the sound on the CD is a little thinner than on vinyl, but such tracks as Talking Doll, Twin Cadillac Valentine, Clearview, and the enormous Killer Born Man still deliver with an intensity which astonishing. You can always turn it up!
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Once heard, never forgotten!
One of those albums by a band that I loved back in the day and never thought I'd ever hear their music again! Read more
Published on 14 Feb 2010 by M. Bridgeman
Guitar gangsters!
I first heard The Messiahs on the Janice Long show on Radio 1 (shows you how old I am). Alongside London band The Godfathers (who are even better) they were 2 of the bands that... Read more
Published on 6 Oct 2009 by Scott Fraser
Please re issue this CD. Now RE-ISSUED.
One of my all time favourite records. Very clever & edgy lyrics plus driving instrumentation. I used to have Gun Shy on cassette & I would love to be able to have it in CD format. Read more
Published on 14 April 2009 by Biker one
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