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« Reply #15 on: October 11, 2013, 01:17:21 PM »
This is probably my favorite album of theirs.  It popped up in the car the other day and I listened to the entire album and loved every second of it. 

This is kind of hard to explain....  While I think T&C is the "easiest" to listen, I think this one is the most consistent.  All the songs seem to "fit together" perfectly.  There isn't a song on here that I'd say could fit comfortably on another album.  Like when reviewers say "___track name___ sounds like it could have come from the __album name___."  Everything on here sounds like it could only work on this album and have the same impact.

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« Reply #16 on: October 11, 2013, 09:40:54 PM »
Although all the albums have an individual sound, for me, the two that are most alike are Thunder / C and Impurity. To me Impurity is almost a follow on. Maybe because they were recorded so close together.

For me the two stand out tracks on Impurity are Space and Marrakesh. Particularly the flow of Marrakesh, a song stripped right down to basics. A vocal and acoustic guitar. Relying on its feel and lyrics.  For me that song really shows off the main mans talent as a singer / song writer. 

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« Reply #17 on: October 12, 2013, 11:49:00 AM »
Although all the albums have an individual sound, for me, the two that are most alike are Thunder / C and Impurity. To me Impurity is almost a follow on. Maybe because they were recorded so close together.

For me the two stand out tracks on Impurity are Space and Marrakesh. Particularly the flow of Marrakesh, a song stripped right down to basics. A vocal and acoustic guitar. Relying on its feel and lyrics.  For me that song really shows off the main mans talent as a singer / song writer.
Totally agree with that comment, Space n Marrakesh have been favourites from first hearing in August of 90!
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« Reply #18 on: October 12, 2013, 01:39:18 PM »
Impurity is one of my faves.

Eleven Years is one of my favourite all time NMA tracks yet always seems to get overlooked in the favourite song lists and is rarely played live:(

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« Reply #19 on: October 12, 2013, 04:00:17 PM »
For me every album,IMHO has a weak track except Impurity.So on that basis,it's probably their best album.The well known phrase about"hair on the back of the neck sticking up"comes to mind,but when I hear Purity it feel like I'm growing a mane ;D
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« Reply #20 on: October 14, 2013, 05:32:12 AM »
I think Master Ray summed it up almost perfectly for me in the first post. Impurity was the third NMA album I bought, after it took a while for T&C to get me into the band and No Rest For the Wicked to confirm their greatness for me. With Impurity it was love at first listen and 20 years later it still sounds as fresh and wonderful as it did then. I'm sure some of it is because I'm a synth player/programmer and Impurity has the best synth work on it by far. I also really like some of the studio tricks they've used to great effect, like the fading intro to Innocence, the reverse reverb on the drums in Eleven Years and the backwards guitar in Lurhstaap.
 
Bury the Hatchet is probably the only song that I don't think is amazing, it's way too folky for me, but in the context of the album it really works. If I was to list my 5 favourite NMA songs (there has to be a thread for that here somewhere), three of them would come from this album - Purity, Lust For Power and Vanity (but not necessarily in that order). Those are songs for which no stereo can muster enough volume.

BTW, I should note that being from Sydney, I've never seen NMA live so there is no live bias here. They were supposed to come out here a couple of times in the last 5 or 6 years but neither tour ever eventuated. I couldn't see it working though, nobody out here knows who they are (despite my best efforts).

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« Reply #21 on: October 14, 2013, 07:21:44 PM »
Cheers, wrbones!  My heart bleeds for you, mate, that you never had the NMA live experience.  I truly hope that either NMA someday make it over to your shores or you manage to get over to the UK or somewhere like that.  It must be so frustrating, but I can imagine that a band without major label funding will struggle to get over to the other side of the world from the UK...

Hope it happens one day before too long... and hey, if you fancy a foreign trip, c'mon, save up, you don't need to eat THAT badly...

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« Reply #22 on: October 14, 2013, 11:48:16 PM »
Well, I'm hoping that my band might get to play at one of the big summer festivals in Europe next year, as our label is going to work our next album's release around it. If that pans out, I just have to hope I can make it coincide with an NMA show somewhere.

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« Reply #23 on: December 15, 2018, 07:32:16 PM »
Ten years before "Get me out", there was... ;D:

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9C7o3WGMoE

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« Reply #24 on: December 15, 2018, 08:42:30 PM »

Blimey... certainly a bit similar!

I've no idea if any of the NMA musicians are familiar with Discharge... if they were, I doubt they would have intentionally ripped off the band in question.  And if they were, there is such a thing as 'unconscious plagiarism', ie a memory that seems to be new...  or it could have been accidental, GMO is a simple chord thing, eh?

Sidenote.. a crappy band I used to be in used to rehearse at a little studio that was owned by a guy who played in Discharge for a while, he even produced one of our demo tapes...   :D
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« Reply #25 on: December 16, 2018, 08:52:10 PM »
 Never noticed the similarity with the Discharge song before. Awesome  8)
Tonight, as you stare at the ceiling again
With your lover turning away
Disappointment closing in
Like the walls... and you try...
You try to talk about love
And they put their arms around you
But you still feel all alone
Wonder why...

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« Reply #26 on: January 05, 2019, 05:47:12 AM »
Ten years before
"Get me out"  by  New Model Army
there was...
"Decontrol"  by  Discharge

OMG!!  :o  That guitar riff sure sounds very familiar, too familiar.  What an incredible find, Guillaume!  When and how the heck did you stumble upon this particular Discharge track?  ???

I personally don't believe it was intentional either... just pure coincidence.   Either way, just in case... let's keep it to ourselves.  :-X

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« Reply #27 on: January 05, 2019, 03:38:51 PM »
Wasnt get me out in the radio back in the day?

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« Reply #28 on: January 05, 2019, 07:39:25 PM »
Wasnt get me out in the radio back in the day?

Not in 1980, no...   ;)

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OMG!!  :o  That guitar riff sure sounds very familiar, too familiar.  What an incredible find, Guillaume!  When and how the heck did you stumble upon this particular Discharge track?  ???

I found the "truth"thanks to good old Youtube, when reading the comments under the "Get me out" track! The comment under the video, posted two months ago!  ;):

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAia0LnHx_I

"Sounds very much like.....discharge decontrol"

And is it me or early bass notes of "Born feral" sound a bit like the early bass notes of The Cure's ones..." A forest"?
Overall i often thought that NMA's bass sound in the 80's sometimes a bit sounded like The Cure's bass sound.
It's logical to have influences, conscious or not conscious, when you are an artist...i remember for example Justin saying that "Falling"'s guitar riff was a tribute/influenced by Bo Diddley.

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