After the mighty T & C and Impurity...

[Silver Cloud]

Love of Hopeless Causes came out in a great time in my live so it will always be very special for me …

[Guillaume]

I really liked some of the songs. its now definitely one of my favourites and gives, I believe, a real insight into the band at that time. Strange Brotherhood is a..Strange album. Its seems all over the place and unfocused but then throws out some of the finest songs they have ever recorded. Lullaby brings me to tears nearly every listen.

i agree with your opinion about TLOHC and STRANGE BROTHERHOOD..."Lullaby" is a beautiful song" indeed, never played live it seems, and i also love "Headlights".

[Karsten]

i agree with your opinion about TLOHC and STRANGE BROTHERHOOD..."Lullaby" is a beautiful song" indeed, never played live it seems, and i also love "Headlights".

Lullaby was actually played live, if too very rarely. I think I heard it only played two times live - 1995 in Düsseldorf and 1999 at Taubertal Festival. Maybe some more at solo gigs, but I don´t remember it properly...

K.

[lotus]

I checked Stepanie`s archive - often very helpful informations
http://www.ne-ne.de/nmasongs/l.html#lullaby
Only 3 live gigs of lullaby listed...

But can`t believe LS 43 was never played live 

[Karsten]

But can`t believe LS 43 was never played live 

Due to setlist.fm LS43 was performed several times between 2004-2006. Must play Carnival again, probably the album I listen to most rarely.

[Master Ray]

But can`t believe LS 43 was never played live 

Due to setlist.fm LS43 was performed several times between 2004-2006. Must play Carnival again, probably the album I listen to most rarely.

I was the same, I sort of overlooked Carnival for many years, but got back into it a couple of years back and I can now recognise it as the absolute belter that it is...   

[Isaac(Black Eagle Rising)]

I was only 15 years old the day I bought the LOHC when it's released.I listened the whole album in a car by walkman on the road with my parents.Still very special to me.Changed lots of things in my life.From the first moment I heard Here Comes The War until the end of Bad Old World I remember I am amazed and listened the whole album over and over again till walkman gets broken.The "Sound " was the main thing made my mind the album is priceless.In years I even changed gear to sg guitars and vox amps.Proudly have the cd and vinyl signed by whole band.Great album and artwork.

[Guillaume]

Up, because the album will be re-released on vinyl next month!!!

[Winterwulf]

Up, because the album will be re-released on vinyl next month!!!

Have the band managed to claw the rights back from Sony then?

[Guillaume]

Up, because the album will be re-released on vinyl next month!!!

Have the band managed to claw the rights back from Sony then?

Probably!

We are happy to announce the re-release of The Love Of Hopeless Causes on 180 gram vinyl - this is a limited edition of 1000 individually numbered copies on flaming coloured vinyl, and is available to pre-order now through our Shop

NMA Online Shop: HERE

While of course we would prefer you to order directly from us, shipping costs and Brexit complications mean that you may find it cheaper from local sources. The release date is 2nd May 2025.

The Love of Hopeless Causes (1993)
By the early 1990s, almost by accident, we had begun to carve out a particular identity for ourselves, so The Love of Hopeless Causes was not what anyone was expecting. We felt that we were in danger of getting trapped in a folk-rock cul-de-sac, so, just as this ‘style’ became a fashionable and commercial sound in the UK, we made a deliberate move away from it and straight and into guitar-driven rock music. It is a full-on album, driven equally by personal traumas, including Justin's near-death electrocution on stage in Switzerland, and the massive changes going on in the world around us and it was produced at Amazon Studios in Liverpool with huge energy, joy and charisma by Niko Bolas and later beautifully mixed by Bob Clearmountain in Los Angeles.

"It's one of my favourite NMA albums... I have vivid memories of how Robert, Nel and myself were set-up in a circle, with stage monitors rather than headphones, and with Niko headbanging in the middle. Everything was about passion. That and the thrill of hearing for the first time how Bob had mixed 'War'... " JS