The Ghost of Cain's 30th birthday!

[MARKXE]

A couple of reviews from back then.






Still have my original copy plus a couple of spares.



A fantastic album then a fantastic album now, simply timeless.

[szmurf]

4 out of 10???  Fecking idiot.
I think this was their introduction to us US folks.  A friend taped it for me and I fell in love with it, and played that tape until it warped, then went out and bought an original copy.  Then got T&C, and then Vengeance started showing up in various forms.  I'm not sure if No Rest was released in the US.  It never made it to Owensboro KY and I ended up buying it when the shop got all internetted.

[Pol]

Wonder what Collette is up to these days probably stroking her cat n baking cakes for best in show at  the W.I. village fête and living through these painful days

[Red]

First album I listened to as I was a latecomer to NMA (Feb '87)

The Hunt is one of my favourites off this album

[Simon73]

bought the cd when I was much younger and then bought a second hand vynil copy recently. always amazing.

[BradfordLights]

I was 10 when TGOC was released. I was 15 when I got it from the local record shop on cassette, along with every other album they'd released  - Impurity being the new one at that time. Eeverything up to and including TLOHC gets played often, always will.

[Willard]

4 out of 10???  Fecking idiot.
I think this was their introduction to us US folks.  A friend taped it for me and I fell in love with it, and played that tape until it warped, then went out and bought an original copy.  Then got T&C, and then Vengeance started showing up in various forms.  I'm not sure if No Rest was released in the US.  It never made it to Owensboro KY and I ended up buying it when the shop got all internetted.

More or less exactly how it went for me, except for the KY part 

[Guillaume]

Another nice one from Amazon US!:


5.0 out of 5 starsOne of the Best Album's Ever

February 2, 2007
Format: Audio CD

"The Ghost of Cain is "Rubber Soul," and Thunder & Consolation is "Sgt. Pepper". New Model Army never toured America due to Visa problems and therefore are virtually unkown in the states. But if you lived in Europe in the eighties, this group was manmouth. They were, and are, the alternative version of Metallica. I've recently listened to this album again and was suprised to realize that the sound didn't sound dated at all. Even though the lyrics are based on Cold War issues, songs like "51st State," (In reference to England being the 51st state of America) is as relative now as it was 20 years ago. This group is, without a doubt, a true hidden treasure."


I like the references to the Beatles and Metallica!! 

Eeverything up to and including TLOHC gets played often, always will.

+1!

Justin's interview during the US tour of "the ghost of Cain", in 1987:

http://articles.latimes.com/1987-08-14/entertainment/ca-760_1_new-model-army

[Guillaume]

A couple of reviews from back then.






Still have my original copy plus a couple of spares.



A fantastic album then a fantastic album now, simply timeless.

Do you have others UK/US reviews of "the ghost of Cain"? And also the others NMA albums?
in the dvd/blu ray documentary about NMA a critic says that he picked "The ghost of Cain" as the album of the year 1986, in The Times..."the best thing happening to Rock music since the first album of The Clash", or something like that!

[MARKXE]

Will have a look at the weekend.

[Guillaume]

Here's a Justin Sullivan interview in the LA Times, a few months after THE GHOST OF CAIN's release:

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-08-14-ca-760-story.html

[Guillaume]

"One of the most underrated punk albums ever!":

https://whatculture.com/music/10-most-underrated-punk-albums-ever?page=4&fbclid=IwAR28HBSelcg12cRT2CUHM8TV8HiwY1Q9IGugfRa5BPTsRmt3mV_FFymhJ1A

[Master Ray]

I do click on a few Whatculture posts but somehow missed that one!  Cheers!

[Digital Man]

30 years go by so quickly