Maybe It's Right to Be Nervous Now

Maybe It's Right to Be Nervous Now Artist: Magazine
Label: EMI Int'l
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Format: Limited Edition
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 724384989620
EAN: 0724384989620
ASIN: B00004WMZ3


Release Date: 2000-12-05

Maybe It's Right to Be Nervous Now


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Tracks:

  1. Shot By Both Sides (Alternate Recording)
  2. My Mind Ain't So Open
  3. Touch And Go
  4. Goldfinger
  5. Give Me Everything
  6. I Love You You Big Dummy
  7. My Tulpa
  8. Definitive Gaze (Live)
  9. Parade (Live)
  10. The Light Pours Out Of Me (Alternative Version)
  11. Rhythm Of Cruelty
  12. Tv Baby
  13. Back To Nature
  14. Permafrost (Live)
  15. Feed The Enemy (Live)

Tracks:

  1. A Song From Under The Floorboards (Live)
  2. Twenty Years Ago
  3. Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) (Live)
  4. The Book
  5. Upside Down
  6. Sweetheart Contract
  7. Shot By Both Sides (Live)
  8. Because You're Frightened (Live)
  9. I Want To Burn Again
  10. Model Worker (Live)
  11. Vigilance (Alternative Mix)
  12. In The Dark
  13. The Operative
  14. Come Alive
  15. Thinking Flame (The Garden)

Tracks:

  1. Touch And Go (Peel Session)
  2. The Light Pours Out Of Me (Peel Session)
  3. Real Life (Definitive Gaze) (Peel Session)
  4. My Mind Ain't So Open (Peel Session)
  5. Give Me Everything (Peel Session)
  6. Burst (Peel Session)
  7. I Love You You Big Dummy (Peel Session)
  8. Boredom (Peel Session)
  9. Tv Baby (Peel Session)
  10. Thank You For Letting Me Be Myself Again (Peel Ses
  11. Permafrost (Peel Session)
  12. A Song From Under The Floorboards (Peel Session)
  13. Twenty Years Ago (Peel Session)
  14. Look What Fear's Done To My Body (Because You're F
  15. Model Worker (Peel Session)

Similar Items:

  1. Where the Power Is
  2. Scree
  3. Buzzkunst
  4. Magic, Murder and the Weather
  5. The Correct Use of Soap

Album Description

Three disc retrospective for the post-punk act featuring Howard Devoto (Buzzcocks). Disc one is titled, 'Real Life/Secondhand Daylight Era' and features one unreleased track, 'Shot By Both Sides' (Alternative Recording) alongside B-sides and live tracks. Disc two, 'The Correct Use Of Soap/Magic, Murder And The Weather Era' features three unreleased tracks, alternative Mixes of 'Vigilance', 'Come Alive' and 'Thinking Flame (The Garden)' alongside b-sides and live tracks. Disc three features 15 previously unreleased Peel Sessions, tracks, 'Touch And Go', 'The Light Pours Out Of Me', 'Real Life ('Definitive Gaze')', 'My Mind Ain't So Open', 'Give Me Everything', 'Burst', 'I Love You Big Dummy', 'Boredom', 'TV Baby', 'Thank You' (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin), 'Permafrost', 'A Song From Under The Floorboards', 'Twenty Years Ago', 'Look What Fear Has Done To My Body ('Because You're Frightened') and 'Model Worker'. Each disc comes in it's own paper sle

Album Details

A treasure trove of tracks from the band that Howard Devoto formed after splitting from the Buzzcocks. this triple disc set includes Two discs primarily culled from B-Sides, alternative mixes and live tracks, most notably, an alternative mix of their biggest hit, 'Shot by Both Sides'. the third disc is 15 tracks of John Peel Sessions, all previously unreleased. One of the most exciting live bands of New Wave, their shows were nothing less than stunning. A real find for any fan.

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars The rise & fall of postpunk's pioneers.......2006-10-20

These three discs supersede earlier 1990s CDs that supplemented the four original studio LPs. The live-from-Australia LP Play--which seems to also be made superfluous in similar if not identical choices of concert tracks on this new collection-- had never to my knowledge been reissued on CD. The box contains Peel Sessions formerly incompletely gathered, what had been the posthumous b-sides collection Scree, and all but one song ("Motorcade," a very puzzling omission in the box set) from the late 80s compilation Rays & Hail. As an avid fan of, well, half of their Correct Use of Soap--but what a half!-- and to a lesser degree most of Real Life & Secondhand Daylight, this suits me admirably.

I admit, however, never warming up to their last LP Magic, Murder & the Weather. It too is represented, and for my tastes signals on the latter part of the second disc a marked decline in listenability, compared with the best material from their first three LPs. Naturally, the last LP had their "hit," the uncharacteristically perky About the Weather. First surprise: it's not on the compilation. Luckily, most of the choices come on that disc from Correct Use rather than Magic, Murder, so the compilers may share my general preferences.

The organization of the CDs follows the chronology of the band in the first two: they are even subtitled by the respective LPs' "era." Two each per two discs: live, alternate mixes, and earlier versions mingle with studio tracks from the original LPs. These document the shift from the angular, harsher pioneering post-punk, heavy on atmospheric keyboards and increasingly aligned with John McGeoch's guitar and Barry Adamson's bass--the meshing of these two wonderful musicians with Howard Devoto's voice (an acquired taste, but as an ex-Buzzcock he and Pete Shelley do share remarkably a similar attitude as expressed in their delivery if not the same pitch! It must be a Manchester thing.). This is not easy music to listen to, and demands attention rather than being relegated to mood-setting (unless you're in a misanthropic snit).

Like fellow Mancunians The Fall at this time, Magazine (I always liked the word's double meaning-- shot by both sides indeed) trafficked in an educated but sour sensibility, seasoned by existentialism more than the poses of the New Wavers that such as Devoto (and ME Smith and Shelley and their bands) unwittingly foreshadowed, but always overshadowed with a far more integral, rather than superficial, awareness of the challenges in a grim urban society.

Two reasons for docking a star, not for the drop-off in the contents when the last years of the band arrive, but for the presentation. 1) Liner notes beyond terse identification of players on and origins of the cuts would have been preferred to the booklet's many pictures but no text. Nice graphics, to be sure, but no information. No critical essay, no history, no overview's given.

2) Where is the song "Philadelphia"? That's where the line from which the title of the anthology is taken. Perhaps a perverse reminder, by its absence, of the contrary nature of Magazine, subverting expectations and refusing (until arguably near the end) to give in to the media circus and the pop charts. Despite this oversight and a few other songs I would have preferred to yet another frantic rendition of the Captain Beefheart 'I Love You Big Dummy' or the vertigenous Sly Stone cover or some of the rather forced languor on a few b-sides, this is the collection those few converted fans who respect the legacy of this creative and recalcitrant lot must have, of course.

5 out of 5 stars This is Real Life, your tellin' me........2005-03-31

Magazine created some of the best music of the late 70s and early 80s. With Howard Devoto up front, and John McGeogh and Barry Adamson on guitar duties, they put out a series of remarkable albums all of which are represented on this box set. Adamson was later to team up with Nick Cave and McGeogh (who has sadly passed away) with Siouxie and the Banshees. Devoto's lyrics are wordy, evocative and edgy. The music ranges from straight ahead punk to the soundscapes of "Second Hand Daylight".

3 out of 5 stars Good outtakes but..........2004-05-23

I bought this CD because I was looking for CD versions of Magazine albums. I think Magazine is the single most underrated band of all time. And the same goes for Howard Devoto's truly original and breathtakeing song writing.

But what I really wanted was a Magazine/Luxuria box set. That's what I'm looking for today.

- Andrew

5 out of 5 stars The Light Poured Out Of Them.......2004-04-30

Maybe It's Right To Be Nervous Now (a line from the song Philadelphia) collects all of the b-sides, alternates, and rarities that appeared on the Scree compilation, the bulk of Magazine's now out-of-print live album Play, and the complete radio sessions recorded for John Peel's legendary BBC program. The liner notes contain no essays or interviews, but production and recording information is provided for each track, and there are lots of wonderful photos.

Fans who already have Scree and Play probably wish that the Peel Sessions were available separately. But I don't see how anyone could really regret acquiring this three-disc box.

The music is icy, Nietzschean post-punk for disaffected intellectuals. Magazine use the angular riffs of punk, the eerie synthetics of prog, and the fluid bass lines of soul to augment Howard Devoto's wry lyrics, which he delivers with deadpan precision. You can spot traces of their work in almost everything that came after them, but nothing sounds quite like them.

If you're a first time listener, start with their third album, The Correct Use Of Soap. If you've heard them already, maybe it's right to purchase this now!

5 out of 5 stars Post-Punk 101 ("What's Post-Punk?").......2002-04-26

Ever wonder what the heck people are talking about when they mention "post-punk"? Simply put, the term refers to, in general, UK bands that shined in the few short years between Punk ('76-'78)and New Wave ('81ish onwards).

Although the most famous post-punk band would be Joy Division, a closer examination of the era reveals Magazine a close second. And like JD, Magazine grew out of the punk movement: Just as Joy Division were the punk band Warsaw, Magazine lead-singer Howard Devoto was in the (excellent) punk band The Buzzcocks long enough to record what is now considered the first independent punk record, The Spiral Scratch EP (Now available as the CD Time's Up), in 1976. But apparently, sweet vocal harmonies over three-chord riffs weren't exciting enough, and so Devoto left to form...

Magazine, best described as Kraftwerk (loads of synths, courtesy of keyboardist Dave Formula) meets The Damned (arch mannerisms, all-too-clever cynicism), but that's just the surface of things. Barry Adamson's bass work; gritty, edgy and in-your-face funky all at once, as well as John McGeoch's guitars; thin and sharp punk riffs one second, Mediterranian-inspired swirls the next adding the aggresion and tension, not to mention John Doyle's competent drumming laying a backbone... all fuse together to create a truly unique sound. Oh, and biting lyrics weaned on loads of existentialism and dour German philosophy.

Well, that covers just about the first half of the first disc on this ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL 3-disc compilation. And if it means anything to you, I'll bet you my life savings at least one member of Radiohead dropped whatever he was doing when this baby dropped in the record stores.

The 80's (as documented on disc 2) saw Magazine expanding their musical references: Sly Stone covers ("Thank You"), piano ballads ("Song From Under The Floorboards"), glam-rock regressions (The unbelievable "Vigilance") and, er, disco? ("Thinking Flame"). Some might argue that by the end ('81), Magazine had gotten too over-produced and too lush-sounding, that they'd washed the grit from under their shoes and forgotten the menacing vacuosity and punk edge that made them so exciting. Despite the tongue-in-cheek kookiness though, there's nary a whiff of boredom in the latter stuff...

...although, in a manner of speaking, there is on disc 3 (all the BBC Radio 1 Sessions): The cover of the Buzzcocks' "Boredom", which is the real highlight.

Music Album:

  1. Extremely Cool ~ Chuck E. Weiss
  2. Never Trust a Hippy ~ Adrian Sherwood
  3. Bufo Alvarius Amen 29:15 ~ Bardo Pond
  4. Bartender (I Just Want Your Company)
  5. What Became of the Likely Lads ~ The Libertines
  6. Live on Stage ~ Head East
  7. Transmatic ~ Transmatic
  8. Thanks for the Memes ~ Augie March
  9. Water to the Dead ~ Ego Likeness
  10. Burn ~ Fruit

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Mingus at Antibes ~ Charles Mingus

Skin ~ Ruby Blue

Scott Joplin Complete Piano Works Volume One 1896-1902

Heaven ~ Don Diego

Glenn Miller on V-Disc ~ Glenn (Orchestra) Miller

Flutes de Terres Incas ~ Los Calchakis

10 Years ~ Kitaro

Global Women: Ethnic Songs From 14 Countries ~ Various Artists

Requiem Dub ~ Kazufumi Kodama