The Ghost of Cain

Artist: New Model Army
Label: EMI Int'l
Category: Music

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Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 077774669528
EAN: 0077774669528
ASIN: B000005RRG

Release Date: 1998-11-03

The Ghost of Cain

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Tracks:

The Hunt
Lights Go Out
51st State
All Of This
Poison Street
Western Dream
Lovesongs
Heroes
Ballad
Master Race

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Customer Reviews:

Wow! This is timeless!.......2006-10-25

When this album first came out I wanted so much to see the band live sporting my mohawk, torn jeans, and leather jacket. They were banned from the US because of their 51st state of America song.

It's funny how nothing really changes with politics and that as Reagan and Bush Sr. were reaping havoc across the world with trading arms with Iran/Iraq and Bin Laden I was wearing out this album on the turn table with my bratty college angst going to every demonstration against government policy that I could.

Well, the album is as crisp today both politically and sonically and just goes to show that thoughtful songwriting will always be timeless to the next generation that discovers it. The 51st state song rings true with the Bush/Blair fiasco.

Thanks for releasing this on CD as my beer soaked album has long been trashed and most likely jetisoned out of my apartment window at some point in some maddened frenzy when it finally refused to play. Unfortunately, I've grown older and can't get the same effect flinging a Brittany Spears album out the window.

I have since bought a few of the bands other cd's, but none hold as dear as this one because of the timing it came out and my drunken college stupor filled with confusion, radicalsim, and flat out despise for all the politicians that rule our lives in their own best interest. So put on this album, get pissed of, and band together as human beings to peacefully change our government and all it's bad foreign policies that reak havoc on the poor of other countries.

look down below this review..........2004-05-18

All the other six reviews are utterly correct. If there's anything wrong with this album, it's that it's over too soon. No missteps, no bad songs, no afterthoughts, no filler -- all passion, all anger, all love, all perfectly composed and performed.

Double this up with 1988's THUNDER AND CONSOLATION and you'll never turn on a pop station again.

After 14 years, they're still the best band I've ever heard........2003-02-01

This album is still at the top of the list in terms of best all around CD. There's not one song on there not worth listening to.
All of the songs of "Ghost of Cain" pack power and punch along with both rebellious and intelligent thought behind it. As a testament to their music, I know of two metal bands that have done covers of "Hunt" and do it justice.

If I had to put New Model Army's music into a little box and label it, it'd be right there in "Songs to Start Your Own Revolution To". I've listened to NMA for 14 years now and I was lucky enough to see them in their US tour some 10 years ago. I can honestly say that they are more powerful live and in person than in any CD recording you've ever heard. In that performance in Berekeley, Ca. they played "Hunt", "51st State" and "Master Race" and drove the crowd insane.

Buy it, they're an addiction.

One heck of an album!.......2000-05-02

I first was exposed to New Model Army as an exchange student in Germany. Although there is much music like this to be found in Europe, in America, this kind of sound has almost disappeared from the wide spread of music we find on the radio and in popular music stores. This is real honest-to-god music with all its rage, passion and individual voice driving your soul. This music begs you to understand political and social wrongs towards the *individual* and makes you actually *think* for a change, something that's hard to find in a world full of Backstreet Boys and Brittany Spears. New Model Army performs truly awesome music that can't be matched by any other artist.

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