Along with "Searching For The Young Soul Rebels" by Dexy's (see below), this is one of my all-time favourite albums.
Coming from a very similar place as "Soul Rebels", "NWNM" melds the rabble rousing punk crunch of The Clash c."London's Calling" with genuine Muscle Shoals soul to a staggering effect that has in no way aged over 23 years.
Forget the extreme socialist polemic, the swagger and bile of the band, and leader Chris Dean in particular, with those awesome brass riffs and rockabilly guitar chords, just gets the adrenaline flowing every time.
I'm not doing a track-by-track on this one, they're all too good to be picked to pieces, but stand outs for me include "Kick Over The Statues", "It Can Be Done", "Keep On Keeping On" and "Hold On".
Sadly, after this the band were no more and other than a couple of singles and a live album there's nothing else out there. On the other hand it's hard to see how they could ever have beaten this record so perhaps that's a good thing.
Meantime, if you want a rush, go fetch.
Fantastic album, barely a week goes by without me playing it
ReplyDeleteYou're right, Sir Charles! Me too!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the comment.
Rich
This is so much more embarrassing than I remember it being. Sort of like "Frankie Goes Communist"
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DRoss
ReplyDeleteI agree the politics are outmoded and the music is very redolent of the 80s but still an awesome album.
Thanks for the comment, though ;-)
Rich