Introduce A Friend To NMA EP

[Anna Woman von NRW]

Following a conversation at work this week I realised I've never managed to get anyone to "get" NMA so how would you introduce someone.....

You've got a 3 track EP to do it (actually you've got 2)

EP 1 - Go Nuts In The Pit
EP 2 - Close Your Eyes And Float Away

My Pit EP:
Today Is A Good Day
No Rest
225

My Float EP:
Brave New World II
Nothing Touches
Changing Of The Light (ain't cheating just cos' it's solo  )

What would you do?

 

p.s. Think Stormclouds will make into the pit EP sometime soon.

[Master Ray]

Love It!   

Go nuts in the pit...

The Hunt
Too Close To The Sun
get Me out

Float away...

Sleepwalking
North Star
Ghosts

[wilf]

Good idea. I'll try i out on a friend later this week.

EP 1 (going nuts):

Here Comes the War

Get Me Out

Today is a Good Day


EP 2 (floating):

Headlights

Changing of the Light

Ballad

[Rusco]

I've got three friends falling in love with NMA. Well it was a long time ago at a time when I first found this awesome band. But there's still one I've always tried to get involved with this. I know he had some preconceptions about NMA. He, for example doesn't like The Mission at all but is a total Levellers fan. (He said to me that NMA sounds like Mission and he doesn't like them.) I've tried to tell him all of the Levellers are old NMA fans, but no... Well, he's a sailor and a homeless vagabond at times. If I could get him see the band in a different view I think he would be "shanghaid" (a sailor term about kidnapping someone into the group) quite well. Well, there's at least two songs he confessed he's into: Vengeance and Vagabonds.

I would try these as "going nuts" list:

-Heroin
-Adrenalin
-Brother
-Southwest

Floating might be:

-Before I Get Old
-Sky In Your Eyes
-(and) Love Songs or Lullaby

[Dipple]

Nice idea Anna here are mine

PIT E.P.

Vagabonds
States Radio
I Love The World

FLOAT E.P.

Brave New World II
These Words
Green

Maybe you could show your friend these 2 examples on youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-XnTeEGH18

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pjam-T_H9_U

[Pol]

Without giving it too much thought here is mine
Ep 1.
Vengeance
Archway Towers
Between dog and Wolf

Ep 2.
Summer Moors
Rivers
Nothing touches

[Shush]

EP1

Still here
225
Over the Wire

EP2

Ghosts
Nothing Touches
Better Than Them

[jackroadkill]

Difficult, but I reckon on these:

EP1 -

The Hunt
Vengeance
Heroin

EP2 -

Marry The Sea
Carlisle Road
Green and Grey

[mudgeek]

EP 1 - Go Nuts In The Pit
EP 2 - Close Your Eyes And Float Away


1 - With "Here Comes The War", "225" and "Vagabonds" I would go to the Pit;

2 - And with "Living In The Rose", "Autumn" and "Headlights" I would close my eyes and float away. There.

[luckyjack]

Hmmm...tough one,

Pit e.p.
1: Here comes the war
2: 51st State
3: Knife
Float e.p.
1: Marrakesh
2: Changing of the light
3: These things

With all the comparisons made to other bands ( levellers, mission, killing joke etc.) I've always wondered why nobody namedrops Leatherface? If Frankie and Justin ever colaborated...wow

[sozbot]

I could probably do this a hundred times over, but here goes:

Pit:
Orange Tree Roads
Poison Street
Here Comes The War

Float:
Green and Grey
Summer Moors
Aimless Desire

[Willard]

So many good ones.  I'll pick songs that actually make for the best pit, in my experience, and songs that just kiil your soul when played live

EP 1
The Hunt
Here Comes the War
I Love the World (it just seethes)
(tough to eliminate: 225)

EP 2
Love Songs
Drummy B (Billy McCann)
Dawn
(tough to eliminate: The Attack)

[Pazza]

Nuts

GMO
Christian Militia
Vengeance


Float

Sky In Your Eyes
Marry the Sea
Red Earth - mellow to mosh worthy

[Anna Woman von NRW]

Early scores on the doors as they come into the first bend..................

Here Comes The War pulling ahead in the Pit race on a 12% charge closely followed by a bunch of 5 runners on 8% then a small pack of 3  on 5% with a whole herd falling behind on 2% in a field of 24 runners.

Over to the floaty race where Nothing Touches and Changing of the light are starting to forge a lead with 8% but are being chased down by a 7 strong pack on 5% but the bulk of the field is in the 14 strong posse plodding along on 3%.

Potentially still a long way to go in these hotly contested races and with more runners joining the race all the time any runner could mount a surprise challenge to the early leaders. Ooh the excitement......................

[Guillaume]

My Pit EP:

Poison street
Orange tree roads
Bloodsports

My Float EP:

Happy to be here
Nothing touches
Marry the sea/Rainy Night 65