Homage to Eight

[Pazza]

Hearing OTR at London and Notts must've stuck coz I was left with the urge to play the track yesterday then ended up playing the whole of Eight VERY LOUD late last night (our neighbours love me) and what a great album it really is, kinda crossover from the old days to the new days, agree with the reviews on Amazon posted back in 2000

[declan cowdrey]

It's a good un alright !!!
Deadly album,  one of the best👍

[Guillaume]

"Between dog and wolf" is a fine album but i think i like "Eight" (and "High") more...best album of the 2000's era?
If only for "You weren't there", "Orange tree roads" (one of this NMA track that i can play endlessly, it's so full of vitality..), "Someone like Jesus" (so haunting and eerie, this track) and "Leeds road 3AM" (great lyrics, like a poem) 

[Shush]

Didn't you run a poll of best album from 2000 ear Guillaume ? In it, I picked Eight as my favourite. Absolutely superb album. The afore mention tracks, plus the likes of Snelsmore Wood, Paekakariki Beech. Quality album from start to finish. 

[Anna Woman von NRW]

It's got R&R on it - 'nuff said.

 

[Amandistan]

One of the best in my opinon. Snelmore Wood is all i have to say

Oh and Orange Tree Roads,Someone like Jesus, Wipe-out...  Well, crap! One of the best albums ever as I said before.     Where is the hyperactive  , excited emoticon when you need it? 

[Guillaume]

Didn't you run a poll of best album from 2000 ear Guillaume ?

Indeed!
It's still in the depths of the board, i guess..

[Master Ray]

Didn't you run a poll of best album from 2000 ear Guillaume ?

Indeed!
It's still in the depths of the board, i guess..

Can't find it... a lot of threads seem to be lost in the ether... 

[Shush]

Didn't you run a poll of best album from 2000 ear Guillaume ?

Indeed!
It's still in the depths of the board, i guess..

Can't find it... a lot of threads seem to be lost in the ether... 

Found it ---

http://board.newmodelarmy.org/index.php?topic=7622.msg127260#msg127260

[Belza]

Rather strangely I never connected with this album when it was released.  One of the few NMA albums that wasn't instant with me.  I put it down as a bad job and forgot about it until the band played OTR a few years later on one of the tours.  I revisited the album and absolutely loved it.  To this day I can't understand what I didn't like about it.  Some absolute classics on there that have been mentioned previously.  Now an album I listen to quite a lot.

[Pol]

I'm kinda 50/50 on the eight debate A lot of the album i love Flying through the smoke, you weren't there, orange tree roads, R&R, Snelsmore wood, Leeds road 3am are the definite stands out tracks, the rest i can probably take or leave.

[ruckedout]

I'm an Eight fan.

I'm also The Love of Hopeless Causes fan too. I can still remember being so excited on playing it for the first time on tape in my VW polo 965cc (my first car didn't even warrant a 1 litre engine!).

Now i think about that car, i could have quite easily listened to track 1 and got the end of the tape before i reached  80mph, would have needed a long road to do that though.

Sorry.......i have gone off a tangent....back to Eight....great album!!!!!!

[Pazza]

I'm an Eight fan.

I'm also The Love of Hopeless Causes fan too. I can still remember being so excited on playing it for the first time on tape in my VW polo 965cc (my first car didn't even warrant a 1 litre engine!).

Now i think about that car, i could have quite easily listened to track 1 and got the end of the tape before i reached  80mph, would have needed a long road to do that though.

Sorry.......i have gone off a tangent....back to Eight....great album!!!!!!

What a great recollection, not sure VW would want that as an endorsement tho...  ;-)

Can vividly remember my first summer working in Plymouth and driving my first car, a sub 1 litre Citroen AX, even the headrests were a dealer extra, f$ck all on the thing at all, but I gotta cheap cassette player installed and belted out the Impurity album the whole of the hot summer of 1990.

Get Me Outta this place..

Still makes me grin from ear to ere

 

[ruckedout]

I'm an Eight fan.

I'm also The Love of Hopeless Causes fan too. I can still remember being so excited on playing it for the first time on tape in my VW polo 965cc (my first car didn't even warrant a 1 litre engine!).

Now i think about that car, i could have quite easily listened to track 1 and got the end of the tape before i reached  80mph, would have needed a long road to do that though.

Sorry.......i have gone off a tangent....back to Eight....great album!!!!!!

What a great recollection, not sure VW would want that as an endorsement tho...  ;-)

Can vividly remember my first summer working in Plymouth and driving my first car, a sub 1 litre Citroen AX, even the headrests were a dealer extra, f$ck all on the thing at all, but I gotta cheap cassette player installed and belted out the Impurity album the whole of the hot summer of 1990.

Get Me Outta this place..

Still makes me grin from ear to ere

 

Another great story and a great album too (Impurity).

I have to be honest though back on the car thing, i tried to de-badge my polo because everyone knows that de-badging gives other boy racers something to think about pre race. In my case though it didn't work as i still had the standard 5mm exhaust pipe sticking out the back (later i welded a 50mm cherry bomb on to the back box), my god i was loud but it didn't go any faster.

[Anna Woman von NRW]

It's got R&R on it

And Orange Tree Roads - "Once we were lost, but we could be found": Bit MasterCard that innit - certainly better than Lennon.