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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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The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike [New Edition
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format: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
By P. Canadas
Format: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!
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
Format: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.
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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3.0 out of 5 stars
Hymph!
Was told to "get this, it's really really good" (I thought at the time there were two too many really's) so I got it and its just good. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Sam E
4.0 out of 5 stars
A big loud happy fry up of an album
What I like about the Go Team is you can't slot them neatly anywhere. Thunder. Lightning, Strike is one big happy pill and better than the second album, so if I had to choose... Read more
Published on 13 April 2009 by jonneeeeboy
5.0 out of 5 stars
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
5.0 out of 5 stars
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
1.0 out of 5 stars
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
2.0 out of 5 stars
Decent songs but poor production
I'm not normally the type to drone about the production or mix of an album, but whoever produced this album made a real mess in my opinion. Read more
Published on 11 Jun 2007 by AD
5.0 out of 5 stars
SUPER RARE AUSTRALIAN VERSION WITH BONUS DISC.
Disc 1 is the standard 11 track album. Disc 2 is a great bonus EP with the following tracklisting:
Bottle Rocket (New Version)
The Ice Storm
We... Read more
Bottle Rocket (New Version)
The Ice Storm
We... Read more
Published on 10 May 2007 by World First Uk Sellerfella
5.0 out of 5 stars
Go!
The Go! Team might just have one of the catchiest albums of the year, "Thunder Lightning Strike." Definitely the catchiest of the summer. Read more
Published on 7 Mar 2007 by E. A Solinas
5.0 out of 5 stars
Power! Go!
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. Read more
Published on 25 Feb 2007 by E. A Solinas
5.0 out of 5 stars
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
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