Future Shock

Future Shock Artist: Gordons
Label: Flying Nun
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
Format: EP
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 619388900842
EAN: 0619388900842
ASIN: B000AHJ8WO


Release Date: 2007-03-08

Future Shock


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Tracks:

  1. Spik And Span
  2. Right On Time
  3. Coalminers Song
  4. Sometimes
  5. I Just Can't Stop
  6. Growing Up
  7. Laughing Now
  8. Future Shock
  9. Machine Song
  10. Adults And Children

Album Details

Before They were Bailter Space They were Known as the Gordons and Released a Self Titled Album and the Future Shock EP in 1981. They Are Compiled on this Flying Nun CD. This Disc is Hard to Find Outside Australia! If You Are a Bailter Space Fan You have Got to Hear this Disc!

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars I think it's the NZ band here.......2005-09-18

...that aligns with the lack of data Amazon provides. This is not what seems a country-ish band The Gordons elsewhere on the U.S. Amazon musical listings.

I'm talking about the 10-song, 50-minute, Flying Nun reissue on one CD of the post-punk band Gordons (no definite article) that brings their circa-1981 eponymous debut album and a three-song ep Future Shock together on an import. The three musicians who I believe are identical to those who later founded the more streamlined, if equally corrosive, assault of Bailter Space here begin as disciples of Wire, and secondarily, Joy Division.

It's not bad if you like post-punk gloom, but some songs (like track 6, Growing Up) go on way too long with little to recommend them. Track 2, Right on time, is an outstanding, nearly-vocal-less tune that shows how the three could extend into a mesmerizing groove a phenomenally catchy, yet doom-laden, riff. Another song that stands out is the title track, track 8, of the ep appended to the album; although less inventive than track 2, it does show the group beginning to break free of their influences. It's nowhere near the folkier, DIY Flying Nun bands, by the way. They were labelled "noise-rock" at the time, but this is not Xpressway-type guitar meltdown, but more a halfway point between the meditative melancholy of the very early 80s scene and an effort at a more rhythmic, sonically dense and textured attack, which Bailter Space would more fully gain control of over its subsequently long career and many records.

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  2. Hellzapoppin ~ The 3-D's
  3. Shadows in the Spring ~ Richard Norman
  4. Take a Chance ~ Raul Saavedra
  5. The Follies of Rupert Treacle ~ Che Albrighton
  6. Free Spirits ~ Atlanta Rhythm Section
  7. Roots of Rock & Roll ~ Various Artists
  8. Now More Than Ever ~ Millions of Dead Cops
  9. A Quien ~ Rodrigo
  10. Sahara Seas ~ Judith

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Dos Guitarras Flamencas En America Latina ~ Paco de Lucia, Ramon De Algeciras

Stick Game Songs of Paiute World ~ Judy Trejo

Tilt ~ Kahimi Karie

No Hay Como Mi Son ~ Abelardo Barroso Y la Sensacion

Orquesta Tipica 1950-1954 ~ Horacio Salfan

Serie 20 Exitos ~ Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlan