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Track Listings
| 1. Panther Dash |
| 2. Ladyflash |
| 3. Feelgood By Numbers |
| 4. The Power is On |
| 5. Get it Together |
| 6. We Just Won’t Be Defeated |
| 7. Junior Kickstart |
| 8. Air Raid Gtr |
| 9. Bottle Rocket |
| 10. Friendship Update |
| 11. Hold Yr Terror Close |
| 12. Huddle Formation |
| 13. Everyone’s a VIP to Someone |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
The Go! Team’s piecemeal approach to music-making and their zest for block-rocking party sounds makes for an interesting sonic jumble. This re-release of Thunder, Lightning, Strike, their 2004 debut album, features several modifications from its original incarnation due to US licensing laws (a new verse from MC Ninja and two new tracks), but the changes are largely cosmetic: the album remains a belligerent brew of guitars, drums, old-school hip-hop, rock, harmonicas, banjos, flutes, rhymes and cheerleader-chants that illustrates the band’s famous anything-goes attitude. From the audacious assault of pop-tastic tracks like "Panther Dash" and the cartoonish rumble of "Feelgood By Numbers" to the jump-around anthem "Get It Together", the incessant – and sometimes overwhelming - joie-de-vivre of the document remains unrivalled by anything their contemporaries has produced in the meantime. --Paul Sullivan
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Lodged somewhere in the previously undiscovered zone where Sonic Youth meets The Jackson 5, The Go! Team’s Mercury Music Prize nominated debut album Thunder, Lightning, Strike kicked out the jams and then spread it on crumpets for tea. The Go! Team is a 50/50 boy multinational girl boy split: band leader Ian Parton on electric guitar, harmonica and drums, Sam Dook on electric guitar, banjo and drums Chi Fukami Taylor on drums, Silke Steidinger on drums, electric guitar, keys and melodica and Jamie Bell on bass, and dynamite mcing from pocket rocket Ninja. That’s right, there’s four drummers - eat your heart out Adam and the Ants.
On record The Go! Team are the Uncle Bulgaria’s of pop music, making good use of things everyday folk leave behind. Throwing together electro, 70’s cop show theme music, Bollywood soundtracks, cheerleading chants, old hip hop and noise guitar bands with a wide-eyed sense of possibility where everything crashes into everything else with a breathless, delighted, abandon. The Go! Team seem to be suffering from a collective brain-wrong that is gloriously, euphorically right. This special edition features two bonus tracks, "We Just Won't Be Defeated" and "Hold Yr Terror Close".
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Most Helpful Customer Reviews
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Not the most hype in the world, but what there's been believe it.
This is just a sunny, happy wall of noise. Love the sloppy drumming, love the shouting, love it all.
Turn on, chill out and most of all, have fun fun fun.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Perhaps one of the greatest feel good records in the world, EVER! If you listen to this album and don't want to get up, dance around and break it down 80's style to this mix mash of genius, from xylophone solos to DJ scratching, you must have a heart of stone, A HEART OF STONE I TELL YOU!
Give this record time, the first play won't blow you out of the water but give it a couple of plays and you'll be dancing around the room breaking down some crazy break danceing moves and just raving it up to the max!.
My personal favourite tracks have to be "Huddle Formation","The Power is On" and "Bottle Rocket" but every single one is top notch.
Give this record time, the first play won't blow you out of the water but give it a couple of plays and you'll be dancing around the room breaking down some crazy break danceing moves and just raving it up to the max!.
My personal favourite tracks have to be "Huddle Formation","The Power is On" and "Bottle Rocket" but every single one is top notch.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
The Go! Team turn out one of the catchiest albums in recent memory, "Thunder Lightning Strike." When it first came out, definitely the catchiest of the summertime. Despite the current wave of nu-Manchester or new wave bands that are popping up, this Brighton band dips into a different musical well.
Their unique sound is made up of sunshine funk, big beats, peculiar samples, adrenaline-pumping rock, TV theme songs and the occasional cheerleader. (Yes, cheerleader) It opens with a charged trashcan drum song, "Panther Dash," before slipping into a series of funky, blippy grooves.
Those sounds run through the entire album, alternating between hyperkinetic rock'n'roll and colorful electronic big beats. It's all jammed with harmonica, horn, what sounds like a sitar, and hip-hop flourishes. And whatever style it is, it's danceable from beginning to end, densely packed with fun beats and wild rhythms.
In fact, it's hard to find a part of "Thunder Lightning Strike" that isn't packed with at least two kinds of sound at once. In fact, it sounds like they gathered every single instrument they could get their hands on, dosed them with Red Bull and planted them in front of a bunch of 1970s TV shows. That retro sound isn't a gimmick, however -- even if you don't have nostalgia for that TV era, the sound is wildly entertaining.
Their hyperdrivin' guitars might sound repetitive, if they didn't have lots of samples and extra instrumentation thrown in, including blaring trumpets and some explosive drums. And the flourishes range from glockenspiel to horns to harmonica. Without them, the music would seem a little too bare and ordinary.
And cheerleaders, of course -- there are some rousing cheerleader chants, exploding from the foot-stomping "Huddle Formation" and playfully chaotic "The Power Is On." It sounds like a football-game-turned-rave, with just the right amount of energetic messiness.
Imagine the Propellerheads on a sunny day, and you have the basic sound of the Go! Team. "Thunder Lightning Strike" -- perfect for a party or a wild night.
Their unique sound is made up of sunshine funk, big beats, peculiar samples, adrenaline-pumping rock, TV theme songs and the occasional cheerleader. (Yes, cheerleader) It opens with a charged trashcan drum song, "Panther Dash," before slipping into a series of funky, blippy grooves.
Those sounds run through the entire album, alternating between hyperkinetic rock'n'roll and colorful electronic big beats. It's all jammed with harmonica, horn, what sounds like a sitar, and hip-hop flourishes. And whatever style it is, it's danceable from beginning to end, densely packed with fun beats and wild rhythms.
In fact, it's hard to find a part of "Thunder Lightning Strike" that isn't packed with at least two kinds of sound at once. In fact, it sounds like they gathered every single instrument they could get their hands on, dosed them with Red Bull and planted them in front of a bunch of 1970s TV shows. That retro sound isn't a gimmick, however -- even if you don't have nostalgia for that TV era, the sound is wildly entertaining.
Their hyperdrivin' guitars might sound repetitive, if they didn't have lots of samples and extra instrumentation thrown in, including blaring trumpets and some explosive drums. And the flourishes range from glockenspiel to horns to harmonica. Without them, the music would seem a little too bare and ordinary.
And cheerleaders, of course -- there are some rousing cheerleader chants, exploding from the foot-stomping "Huddle Formation" and playfully chaotic "The Power Is On." It sounds like a football-game-turned-rave, with just the right amount of energetic messiness.
Imagine the Propellerheads on a sunny day, and you have the basic sound of the Go! Team. "Thunder Lightning Strike" -- perfect for a party or a wild night.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
A Fantastic, fun, album
I didn't really know this band before purchasing this album, so I was taking a bit of a risk, but I'm so glad I did, as it's simply fantastic. Read more
Published on 4 Oct 2007 by Lukens
Perfect pop
Not too much to add to some of the ecstatic reviews below; other than to say that the 'production' criticised below is well-nigh perfect. Read more
Published on 23 Sep 2007 by David Hughes
Poor sound quality
I saw this band on the Glastonbury 2007 highlights. Bought 'Bottle Rocket' on iTunes and thought Apple had messed up the sound quality. When I got the CD it was exactly the same. Read more
Published on 29 July 2007 by J. Brett
Wonderful
I bought this album not really expecting much from it. What I did get was the most uplifting and joyful album I've ever listened to. Read more
Published on 23 Aug 2006 by Kerty63
hold it close to yr heart
Few groups create such an overall feeling of uninhabitited joy as the Go!-Team. There music seems to mix up elements of Malcolm McLaren's Double Dutch, Sonic Youth, Sesame Street's... Read more
Published on 6 Aug 2006 by Chinosan
Strike one
A cursory glance over the titles on Thunder, Lightning, Strike will give you some idea of the mood in The Go! Read more
Published on 10 July 2006 by Rob Jones
It really is good as they say it is
A top, top album, and a grower. You might not be quite sure what to make of it at the first play (I wasn't). Read more
Published on 13 April 2006 by Music Monkey
Fun, Fun, Fun
The most original band on the planet today conjure up a real musical treat, this is an album that will banish away your modern day stresses and put a deserved smile on your face. Read more
Published on 23 Feb 2006 by Daniel Mathews
Summer Loving
If you dont own it BUY BUY BUY! I was told by a good friend I prob wouldnt like it, "it is very different" - how wrong was she byjingo! Read more
Published on 20 Feb 2006
Great New Band From Brighton
From my home town Brighton, after a year of making tunes to make you dance, the Go! Team got nominated for a mercury music prize for their debut album " Thunder, Lightning,... Read more
Published on 2 Jan 2006 by Mr. J. Milton
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