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http://www.amazon.co.uk/Generation-T...5140779&sr=8-4
You can pre-order on Amazon for £5.97! I Imagine thats a single disc version but still seems bloody cheap... Do they have to honour that price?
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Audio CD (29 Oct 2012) Number of Discs: 1 Label: Sony Music CMG ASIN: B008SK21QK Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,817 in Music |
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I'm surprised there's going to be numerous versions of this, the 10th anniversary editions for THB and EMG were just the single packages which makes sense to me. I'll get this as a birthday present in October I think
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Journalist Robin Turner (@robinturner) posted this on Twitter the other day:
Back from day in Cardiff making film about Generation Terrorists - you forget how insanely ambitious a record it was http://pic.twitter.com/msIwPxro |
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It's not really about the music but about the band's attitude. The band wanted to be humongous and famous/infamous and GT would be their grand statement: they considered sandpaper sleeves that would destroy the albums next to it in the shelf, the famous "if we don't sell x million albums we'll split" statement and the general "blow up humongously and then throw it all away" plans, OTT antics like the 4REAL faffle to show how serious they were, the defiant "we are here and you WILL love us" attitude, etc. The music we got was glam/cock rock with budget drum production (although it's easy to hear that they wanted the album to sound MASSIVE as well but came across budget problems) but the ambition referred to came from the band itself - knowingly delusional in most cases, but something that was pretty much their trademark during that era.
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Example: NWBML was left on gt and a song like that means little to the 'casual' uk rock fan. To someone in the states it means even less! also - NOTHING on GT was budget. Remember this is a bands debut album: 1. 23 weeks - 6 months at Blackbarn Studios which had who, motorhead, weller, free, bad finger, gary newman, ray davies, moody blues and jethro tull (just to name a few) record albums there in a much sorter time 2. steve brown was hired to produce, and after having produced number 1 singles and albums and a string top top 10 hits with ABC, Wham!, The Cult and Alison Moyet he wouldnt have come cheap 3. it was a double album so even pressing costs etc would have been higher |
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I hope the documentary about making the album will put to bed a lot of rumours, questions and details and give us some new information. I'd love to see some unseen behind the scenes footage of the guys too from 91/92. Bring it on!!
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It was ambitious because the band were young, fired up, posers, spouting all the quotes and everything journalists lapped up, and making grandiose statements about everything being redundant and their intention to sell millions and split in a blaze of glory to show how redundant rock had become. Generation Terrorists was the overblown, overproduced, bombastic, sloganeering, rock record that exemplified this.
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It was ambitious, but they went the wrong way about it. They spent too much time posing and forgot to produce a good album in the process. If it had sounded more like the earlier heavenly tracks and they'd toned down the posing, it could've been a great debut and have sold much more than it did. The album didn't represent them musically at all, that point proven whenever they played (and still do play) the songs live. They were trying to sound like GnR when actually they sounded nothing like that whatsoever. They should've found their own identity much earlier, even on the heavenly tracks you can hear a bit of the true MSP coming through.
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Interesting point about timing though, I wonder if Kurt Cobain ever heard em. Maybe Generation Terrorists would've been a bigger success across the pond a couple of years earlier, who knows. Maybe they could've put anything out over here in 1998 and it'd have got to number one. Fun to think about. Well, for a sad bastard like me anyway.
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