- Audio CD (13 Feb 2006)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Format: CD
- Label: EMI
- ASIN: B000E1162Q
- Other Editions: Audio CD | MP3 Download
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 118,374 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Track Listings
| 1. I Love The World |
| 2. Stupid Questions |
| 3. 225 |
| 4. Inheritance |
| 5. Green And Grey |
| 6. Ballad Of Bodmin Pill |
| 7. Family |
| 8. Family Life |
| 9. Vagabonds |
| 10. Archway Towers |
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Every time I looked through the New Order section of cds I would always find New Model Army! so throwing caution to the wind I picked up this album (never heard a single song by them or knew anything of substance about the band)and took the chance and bought it. The best risk of money I have ever taken concerning music. This album was unlike anything I had ever heard before and found the mixture of songs so under rated and the lyrics absolutely thrilling. I have bought every single album since and will continue to. Take this chance! This album is ace, and New Model are so underrated the british music buying public dont know a good thing when it slaps them in the face. Musical poetry, my best discovery!
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
TV nostalgia shows tend to portray the 80's in Britain as nothing but yuppies, Wham, shoulder pads and conspicuous consumption. The other side of Britain - for example, the millions made unemployed by the decline in traditional industries - has had very few voices.
Without wishing to sound pretentious, "Thunder and Consolation" was a powerful outcry from the excluded and increasingly powerless part of society. The album has an overall texture of fractured lives and the punk-era cries for resistance become increasingly tinged with disillusion and aspirations toward withdrawal, isolation and escape.
Don't let this put the prospective buyer off: the album is not a simple "them and us" Ken Loach polemic. The tracks have a tremendous variety, from the elegiac "Green and Grey" to the lust-for-life power of "125 MPH" and the adrenalin pace of "225" (the title refers to the beats per minute of the track). "Archway Towers" is particularly and deliberately discordant, mirroring the subject matter, "Bodmin Pill" is unquantifiable - not quite a ballad but touched with humanity and fragility - and the storming "Vagabonds" - perhaps _the_ definitive NMA track - makes us pine for a way of life that most of us will never experience.
For me, the standout pieces are "Green and Grey" or "Vagabonds", depending on my mood. I doubt that everyone will take to every track on the album but there is more than enough here to please virtually every music fan. If you only own one NMA album then make it this one.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Bizarrely, this was the first CD I ever bought, back in 1990. Due to wear and tear I've had to buy it again after 15 years - and I do _not_ begrudge shelling out, since it is just excellent.
There was a lot of "indie" music I liked back then that frankly I couldn't care if I heard again, but this is timeless. It doesn't show any signs of ageing (other than "the little words of green" - an 80s computer reference), and if anything it gets more relevant as time goes on. I don't have long hair (indeed, any hair :) nowadays, and I'm definitely a lot more conservative in my views than the wannabe-anarchist student I was when I first bought this album, but tracks like "Green and Grey" and "The Charge" just take on more significance with age.
If you only ever buy one NMA album, buy this one.
And I was very sad to hear about Rob Heaton. A great loss to The World.
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Always a Consolation!
Having first bought this album on vinyl back in the early 1990's, its always been a favourite, but i havent heard it for a few years since my record player has been in storage. Read more
Published 13 months ago by rigana
This will have you pogoing around your lving room
All New Model Army albums are very good but this one is their best. Its got great songs well writen well played and well recorded. Read more
Published on 12 April 2010 by Stephen
Definitive
Certainly the best NMA record ( there are some fantastic contenders too ) and also one which had a breadth and scale of ambition missing on so many of their contemporaries. Read more
Published on 11 Feb 2009 by J. Leggett
The best NMA you will ever listen to
This album is excellent, plain and simple. I was never a massive NMA fan but saw them at the 1989 Reading Festival and was dragged to a dodgy gig in Chester by my girlfriend at... Read more
Published on 22 Oct 2008 by Mr. M. W. Owen
Only 2 reviews...?!!
Having in my possession all NMA albums to date, I really can't believe this album has only 2 reviews! Read more
Published on 24 Sep 2008 by D. Denman
If you only buy 1 New Model Army CD, let it be this one.
This album ranks in my top ten best albums of all time. Every track on it is a belter. Vagabonds and 225 are the stand out tracks. Read more
Published on 14 April 2008 by Simon Jones
While spirits scream and sing.....
No time to write a full review, but when I saw that this most excellent album was unreviewed I thought I should just say a few brief words. Read more
Published on 13 Dec 2007 by Clorson Pannet
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a highly atomspheric and politically correct album, from references to the decline of society to the state of past and present english government. Read more
Published on 16 Oct 2003
Stunning
I was introduced to this album years ago by a friend - and it was the best thing he ever did for me !!
Fantastic lyrics, Stunning melodies - this album has the lot. Read more
Fantastic lyrics, Stunning melodies - this album has the lot. Read more
Published on 21 April 2002
The Definitive New Model Army Album
If anyone was to ask me which of NMA's album I consider to be the best, it's got to be this one, by far! Read more
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