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Thunder, Lightning Strike | 
 enlarge | Artist: The Go! Team
Label: Memphis Industries
Category: Music
List Price: £13.99
Buy New: £2.04
You Save: £11.95 (85%)
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Rating:  41 reviews
Sales Rank: 36249
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
EAN: 5024545296426
ASIN: B0002LQ8CQ
Release Date: September 13, 2004
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: DESPATCHED WITHIN 24 HOURS FROM MAINLAND U.K.
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| Tracks:
| • | Panther Dash | | • | Ladyflash | | • | Feel good By Numbers | | • | The Power Is On | | • | Get It Together | | • | Junior Kickstart | | • | Air Raid Gtr | | • | Bottle Rocket | | • | Friendship Update | | • | Huddle Formation | | • | Everyone s A V.I.P. To Someone |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
The Go! Team's piecemeal approach to music-making and their zest for block-rocking party sounds makes for an interesting sonic jumble. This re-release of Thunder, Lightning, Strike, their 2004 debut album, features several modifications from its original incarnation due to US licensing laws (a new verse from MC Ninja and two new tracks), but the changes are largely cosmetic: the album remains a belligerent brew of guitars, drums, old-school hip-hop, rock, harmonicas, banjos, flutes, rhymes and cheerleader-chants that illustrates the band's famous anything-goes attitude. From the audacious assault of pop-tastic tracks like "Panther Dash" and the cartoonish rumble of "Feelgood By Numbers" to the jump-around anthem "Get It Together", the incessant - and sometimes overwhelming - joie-de-vivre of the document remains unrivalled by anything their contemporaries has produced in the meantime. --Paul Sullivan
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| Customer Reviews: Read 36 more reviews...
 A Fantastic, fun, album October 4, 2007
Lukens (Coventry, UK)
I didn't really know this band before purchasing this album, so I was taking a bit of a risk, but I'm so glad I did, as it's simply fantastic.
Unlike most bands these days, The Go! Team have their own unique sound, and it's certainly a sound I like. It's hard to describe what they sound like, as they seem to manage to fuse so many genres so seamlessly, taking influences from pop, rock, indie, punk, hip-hop, big beat and more. I just wish there were more bands that sounded like them - even if that does contradict my praise of their uniqueness a little.
It's a really fun album, packed full of enjoyable catchy tracks. After buying it I just listened to the tracks over and over again. I've just noticed they have a new album out, and will be purchasing it ASAP.
Perfect pop September 23, 2007
David Hughes (Lanarkshire, Scotland)
Not too much to add to some of the ecstatic reviews below; other than to say that the 'production' criticised below is well-nigh perfect. Live they are astonishing, and it is miraculous that the production captures some of that. Live, the songs can take on a more chaotic jamminess, but on record every song is of a perfect length.
This is pop music at its most wonderful and beautiful, so intensely of the moment that it equally aches with the joy and sadness of life.
It's a great tribute that every listener hears such different gems within this sound--I hear playground chants, tighten up, the friends of distiction, mo tucker, josie and the pussycats meets the velvet underground through a punk version of shangri-las blasting be young be foolish be happy out your car window on a gorgeous summer day as you drive with your gang and your girl and the cops'll never catch you as lonnie smith or beat at cinicitti play in the background. Sorry, no, that's not even the half of it.
What a plucking banjo! 2-4-6-8! Rocking your microphone! Ninja is a superstar, she is my heroine. The fragility of 'Hold Your Terror Close', and the perfect finish of 'Everyone's a VIP to Someone'. If you love music and cherish life, you must have it.
Dammit, it's happened again. Words fail me...
 Poor sound quality July 29, 2007
J. Brett (Bedford, UK)
6 out of 15 found this review helpful
I saw this band on the Glastonbury 2007 highlights. Bought 'Bottle Rocket' on iTunes and thought Apple had messed up the sound quality. When I got the CD it was exactly the same. I found the sound is so bad it is totally unplayable. To me it sounds like an MP3 on the lowest bitrate. Obviously I'm in a minority 'cos everyone else seems to have given the CD 5 stars without comment on the production. So, my advice is give it a listen on iTunes first. Hopefully you'll think I'm wrong and the sound is fine and you'll buy the CD because the Go! Team are a good band.
 Decent songs but poor production June 11, 2007
AD (Barcelona)
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
I'm not normally the type to drone about the production or mix of an album, but whoever produced this album made a real mess in my opinion. It sounds like a collection of decent tunes buried beneath a wall of sound. You can't hear the vocals because of the bass, you can't hear the bass because of the keyboards etc. etc. And it's a pity because a few of the tunes (especially Ladyflash) sound promising. Hope they get someone else to produce the second album!
Power! Go! February 25, 2007
E. A Solinas (MD USA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
The Go! Team turn out one of the catchiest albums in recent memory, "Thunder Lightning Strike." When it first came out, definitely the catchiest of the summertime. Despite the current wave of nu-Manchester or new wave bands that are popping up, this Brighton band dips into a different musical well.
Their unique sound is made up of sunshine funk, big beats, peculiar samples, adrenaline-pumping rock, TV theme songs and the occasional cheerleader. (Yes, cheerleader) It opens with a charged trashcan drum song, "Panther Dash," before slipping into a series of funky, blippy grooves.
Those sounds run through the entire album, alternating between hyperkinetic rock'n'roll and colorful electronic big beats. It's all jammed with harmonica, horn, what sounds like a sitar, and hip-hop flourishes. And whatever style it is, it's danceable from beginning to end, densely packed with fun beats and wild rhythms.
In fact, it's hard to find a part of "Thunder Lightning Strike" that isn't packed with at least two kinds of sound at once. In fact, it sounds like they gathered every single instrument they could get their hands on, dosed them with Red Bull and planted them in front of a bunch of 1970s TV shows. That retro sound isn't a gimmick, however -- even if you don't have nostalgia for that TV era, the sound is wildly entertaining.
Their hyperdrivin' guitars might sound repetitive, if they didn't have lots of samples and extra instrumentation thrown in, including blaring trumpets and some explosive drums. And the flourishes range from glockenspiel to horns to harmonica. Without them, the music would seem a little too bare and ordinary.
And cheerleaders, of course -- there are some rousing cheerleader chants, exploding from the foot-stomping "Huddle Formation" and playfully chaotic "The Power Is On." It sounds like a football-game-turned-rave, with just the right amount of energetic messiness.
Imagine the Propellerheads on a sunny day, and you have the basic sound of the Go! Team. "Thunder Lightning Strike" -- perfect for a party or a wild night.
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