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Learning To Cope With Cowardice [CD]

Mafia (Artist), Mark Stewart (Primary Contributor) | Format: Audio CD
3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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  • Audio CD (13 Nov 2006)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: CD
  • Label: EMI
  • ASIN: B000HKDBAY
  • Other Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 148,251 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Song Title Time Price
Listen  1. Learning To Cope With Cowardice (2006 Remaster) (2006 Digital Remaster) 6:13£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  2. Liberty City (2006 Remaster) (2006 Digital Remaster) 5:37£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  3. Blessed Are Those Who Struggle (2006 Remaster) (2006 Digital Remaster) 5:13£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  4. None Dare Call It Conspiracy (2006 Remaster) (2006 Digital Remaster) 5:40£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  5. Don't You Ever Lay Down Your Arms (2006 Remaster) (2006 Digital Remaster) 4:58£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  6. The Paranoia Of Power (2006 Remaster) (2006 Digital Remaster) 5:38£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  7. To Have The Vision (2006 Remaster) (2006 Digital Remaster) 3:34£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  8. Jerusalem (2006 Remaster) (2006 Digital Remaster) 3:45£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  9. The Wrong Name And The Wrong Number (DJ Battle) (2006 Remaster) (2006 Digital Remaster) 5:04£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen10. High Ideals And Crazy Dreams (2006 Remaster) (2006 Digital Remaster) 3:08£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen11. High Ideals Live (2006 Remaster) (2006 Digital Remaster) 4:21£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen12. Live Paranoia (2006 Remaster) (2006 Digital Remaster) 6:46£0.89  Buy MP3 

Product Description

BBC Review

As part of the timely reissue programme around Adrian Sherwood's legendary On-U Sound releases, Mark Stewart's Learning To Cope With Cowardice must remain the most extraordinary jewel in the crown of post-punk glory. Before you go any further, be warned: this was not designed as easy listening. And so it remains to this day...

Stewart, former vocalist with Bristol agit-funk-rockers, The Pop Group, was a man driven by demons. Contemporary interviews had him muttering darkly about police surveillance and underground missile silos. In a world still gripped by the tail-end of the cold war, his dystopian vision was a wickedly apposite riposte to the burgeoning me-isms of New Romanticism. Many will recall his work purely for one reason: His version opf Blake's "Jerusalem" - played on a regular basis by John Peel and constantly being asked for by listeners. It should probably be our new national anthem.

It's this track which best sums up the joy of this album. A corruscating swirl of deep industrial dub (provided here by Sherwood's house band - African Headcharge) - it's a wild pairing of the cut-up radicalism of Sherwood and the compressed rant of Stewart's paranoia - all laced together with a brass band rendition that recalls Albion's grime that originally inspired it.

But the rest of the album's just as great. Basslines support a mangled coagulation of screams, yelps and rants about lurking terror, political machination and urban dread. Heavy manners, indeed. Stewart never found a better studio partner than Sherwood and in today's skunk-addled climate it seems just as relevant as ever. Essential... --Chris Jones

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5.0 out of 5 stars don't be a coward, buy it! 31 Jan 2008
By D. N. Z. AQUINO
Format:Audio CD
A amazing debut from mark and the maffia. Carrying on the "groove" from the pop group, mark and maffia dabble in dub, hip hop, avant-garde and what sounds like electronica. imagine the pop group trying to play new order in their own twisted style while lee "scratch" perry is chillin in the corner. Amazing sounds, probably nothing like it since or after.
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5.0 out of 5 stars 30 years ahead of it's time! 16 Mar 2012
By Mr. J. S. Moseley
Format:Audio CD
A classic album from Mark Stewart. This is not an easy listen, but then neither are any of his other albums. The music matches the comfort-free lyrics, by being jarring, jagged, distorted, in the red and at times bruising, but there is rhythm and it works! It's still vital and relevant 30 years after it was orignally recorded. If you like your music adventurous and difficult, then treat yourself to this magnificent album!
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1.0 out of 5 stars awful 3 July 2010
By S. A. Campbell
Format:Audio CD
as much as I really enjoy most of on U sound material, African Headcharge, dub syndicate etc (the best reggae money can buy) this album is really awful. gave me a migraine.
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