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Thunder, Lightning Strike

~ The Go! Team

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Audio CD (13 Sep 2004)
Number of Discs: 1
Label: Vivid Sound Japan
ASIN: B0002LQ8CQ
Other Editions: Audio CD | Vinyl

Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (42 customer reviews)

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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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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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5.0 out of 5 stars Summer album of the year, 8 Oct 2004

By	"atjohnston77" - See all my reviews

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.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Go, team!, 22 Jul 2005

By	E. A Solinas "ea_solinas" (MD USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 10 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)

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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5.0 out of 5 stars The Go! Team; Thunder Lightning Strike, 26 Nov 2004

By	"timspaceman" - See all my reviews

Have you ever been to one of those clubs where the DJ plays everything from Break Beats to 70's TV Themes, Acid Jazz to The Kinks, Hip Hop to Northern Soul, yet the whole thing is so infectious you can't stop dancing?
Thunder Lightning Strike is everything that you love about those nights.
It is impossibly cool, the sort of record you leave on loud in the car with the windows down, so everyone else hears how cool you are. If you like Hip Hop, Indie, Northern Soul, Funk, Breaks, Cheese or Big Beat, you will like this and its certainly a must for any DJ looking to throw something interesting into the mix. Every tune's a winner. Buy it now.

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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 6 months ago 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. Read more

Published on 29 Jul 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 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

5.0 out of 5 stars 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... Read more

Published on 6 Aug 2006 by Chinosan

5.0 out of 5 stars wistles, bells, flutes and xylophones
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... Read more

Published on 28 Jul 2006 by El Diablo

4.0 out of 5 stars 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 Jul 2006 by Rob Jones

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