Contenders

Contenders Artist: Easterhouse
Label: Cherry Red UK
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
EAN: 5013929118522
ASIN: B00005CDUC


Release Date: 2001-05-18

Contenders


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Tracks:

  1. Out on Your Own
  2. Whistling in the Dark
  3. Nineteen Sixty Nine
  4. Cargo of Souls
  5. Lenin in Europe
  6. Get Back to Russia
  7. To Live Like This
  8. Boy Can Sing
  9. Estates
  10. Inspiration
  11. Johnny I Hardly Knew You
  12. Easter Rising
  13. Ain't That Always the Way

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  3. Unknown Pleasures

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Easterhouse: System's A Bitch, With Whores for its Lovers.......2005-01-20

This is such a brilliant album I almost cried when I heard Waiting for the Redbird, the follow-up album by the rump left by the Perry brother's split in the ranks of Easterhouse. It is a beautiful blending of unyielding revolutionary sentiments, artful songwriting, competent guitar work and vocals, and the kind of red, raw anger and dark, black despair (peeking out from behind a noble effort at hopefulness) that doesn't even consider giving quarter. For the (perhaps) handful of us who are drawn to the rock medium for our propaganda efforts and wouldn't give the bourgoisie so much as a pleasant nod of the head if they paid us, who might have thought we'd exhausted our lifelong opportunities to see the two joined together effectively when punk rock died in 1980, this is a near perfect album. Perhaps only Phil Ochs "The Ringing of Revolution" can hope to beat out Easterhouse's lyrics: "Where is the man who's speaking out for me? Community leaders want more black shopkeepers, the union's a say in the jobs sold away, and I'm told that my homes in a nuclear free zone, but that ain't much help when there's bills to be paid. Police accountability, non-nuclear war strategies have made the fight a mockery." This album would be worth several times over its cost, just to play that at full volume at some Kerry-supporting liberal Leftist poser!

5 out of 5 stars True Soul Music.......2003-02-17

Pop and politics don't always mix well together, but this album is a stunning exception. Like all great soul music, Contenders evokes a mood and tells its story beautifully within the limitations of the pop song format. The haunting vocals and spidery guitars frame the heartfelt lyrics to maximum effect. This isn't a great album because of its political content; it's a great album because it's great music coupled with fantastic storytelling. Even if Lenin doesn't get your motor revving, don't miss out on Contenders.

5 out of 5 stars Smother the Fascists with Guitar.......2002-08-16

Easterhouse's one record of note attempts the impossible and fails beautifully. The guitars climb grandly, the lyrics reach for inspiration, and the whole thing falls like a pebble into the ocean. Andy Perry's polemics will rub wrong if you detest Irish republicanism or have a bust of Maggie Thatcher on your mantle -- next to your cherished framed snap with Big Ian on the front line. While the album does attack Labour hypocrites who forsake the downtrodden for graven image worship of the Saxon kind, the call to topple the swine doesn't ever mute the superb guitar work, which is yet another shade of overachieving Manchester. That blighted pox on the map sure spun gold amidst hayracks of dross. Most eighties music is now unlistenable. Thankfully, albums like this one have real conviction and emotion, not some forced bathos, the kind that now passes for passion: think Creed. Easterhouse made one great record. That was enough.

5 out of 5 stars

Music Album:

  1. Pain ~ Rose Tattoo
  2. Going West, Looking East ~ Zlatko Brodaric
  3. At Abbey Road 1963-1966 ~ The Hollies
  4. The Very Best of the Blues Years ~ Canned Heat
  5. Faded Seaside Glamour ~ Delays
  6. Robert Gordon Story ~ Robert Gordon
  7. Can't Stand Me Now/Never Never/All at Sea ~ The Libertines
  8. Very Best of Laura Branigan ~ Laura Branigan
  9. Inside The Acid Temple ~ Liquid Sound
  10. Stealing Chairs ~ 28 Days

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Hank Jones with the Meridian String Quartet ~ Hank Jones with Meridian Quartet

Inside Insight ~ Bernhard Arndt

Afro-Jazziac Bop ~ Herbie Mann

Penguin Eggs ~ Nic Jones

Music from North India ~ Various Artists

Flair ~ Indigo

Melodies of Memories ~ Stella

Oo Telesa ~ Oo Telesa