- Audio CD (13 Sep 2004)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: Memphis Industries
- ASIN: B0002LQ8CQ
- Other Editions: Vinyl
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 63,432 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Track Listings
| 1. Panther Dash |
| 2. Ladyflash |
| 3. Feel good By Numbers |
| 4. The Power Is On |
| 5. Get It Together |
| 6. Junior Kickstart |
| 7. Air Raid Gtr |
| 8. Bottle Rocket |
| 9. Friendship Update |
| 10. Huddle Formation |
| 11. Everyone’s A V.I.P. To Someone |
Product Description
Album Description
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
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Summer album of the year,
This review is from: Thunder, Lightning Strike (Audio CD)
Having only heard Bottle Rocket when i brought this album, I wasn't sure what to expect.However, if you're looking for an album to get you going in the morning or cheer you up on a rainy day you woudl be hard pushed to find a better album than this for the job. Ladyflash, Bottle Rocket, and The Power Is On are all cut and paste numbers in the Avalanche style. However, the music is more layered and joyfully hectic with a real sense of it being compiled live. The album also flirts with acid jazz and more laid back electronica but it pretty much unclassifiable. If you want something different and music that will excite you over and over again (i've now listened to the album everyday for the past week since i bought it) then you really should check this out.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
I dare you not to enjoy it,
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This review is from: Thunder, Lightning Strike (Audio CD)
I've been on the lookout for this since the singles Ladyflash and Junior Kickstart. This album doesn't dissappoint on any level. Though short (comes in at 35 mins) i challenge anyone not to play it at least 4 times before it leaves your player.Using the cut-and-paste techniques familiar to Avalanches fans, The Go! Team up the ante considerably, with mental drumming, live horns and a peculiarly english, brian-cant-fan-grew-up-in-the-seventies type of nostalgia drippping all over it. Go! get it now!
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Go, team!,
By E. A Solinas "ea_solinas" (MD USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 100 REVIEWER) (HALL OF FAME REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Thunder, Lightning Strike (Audio CD)
The Go! Team might just have one of the catchiest albums of the year, "Thunder Lightning Strike." Definitely the catchiest of the summer. 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 summer partying.
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