It was my introduction to the band, together with the "G&G" single cassette and a copy of No Rest. I was 15, my big brother just came back from living in London for a year and a half and brought a lot of music. I was reading Tolkien's Lord of the Rings for the first time and along came this music as a perfect match. Apart of Chinese Whispers, which I still don't like, everything on that record was and still is perfect. Now I have it on tape, CD and vynil, every possible way... Still love it, still go crazy when any of the songs show up on any random playlists, never think I'll grow tired or bored with it, it's been more then 35 years ago, I still follow the band, listen to every track and love a lot of other songs they made over time, but as an album this collection is still unmatched. And over time, as I'm getting older, I listen to less and less heavy stuff. There are a lot of bands I loved all my life and they very nuch differ in styles, I love The Beatles, The Kinks, Morphine, The Doors, Portishead, The Velvet Underground, the House of Love, a lot of different music, jazz, a lot of early r'n'r, delta blues, in the 90s I was very much into Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, RATM, nowadays those bands I admire, but rarely listen to, but NMA is a constant soundtrack for me.
