Contenders [Import]

Easterhouse | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 18, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Cherry Red UK
• ASIN: B00005CDUC
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #357,602 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Out on Your Own

2. Whistling in the Dark

3. Nineteen Sixty Nine

4. Cargo of Souls

5. Lenin in Europe

6. Get Back to Russia

7. To Live Like This

8. The Boy Can Sing

9. Estates

10. Inspiration

11. Johnny I Hardly Knew You

12. Easter Rising

13. Ain't That Always the Way

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars True Soul Music, February 17, 2003

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Todd Boostrom (Pacific Palisades, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Contenders (Audio CD)

Pop and politics don't always mix well together, but this album is a stunning exception. Like all great soul music, Contenders evokes a mood and tells its story beautifully within the limitations of the pop song format. The haunting vocals and spidery guitars frame the heartfelt lyrics to maximum effect. This isn't a great album because of its political content; it's a great album because it's great music coupled with fantastic storytelling. Even if Lenin doesn't get your motor revving, don't miss out on Contenders.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best political rock album out there, October 3, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Contenders (Audio CD)

The lyrics are powerful, both musically and politically. The Perry brothers are not afraid to say and explain their views, and do so to a rocking beat. If you are politically aware and a music lover, but don't have this album, then you are all wet!

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Easterhouse: System's A Bitch, With Whores for its Lovers, January 19, 2005

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Peter Urban "Council Communist" (San Francisco,) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Contenders (Audio CD)

This is such a brilliant album I almost cried when I heard Waiting for the Redbird, the follow-up album by the rump left by the Perry brother's split in the ranks of Easterhouse. It is a beautiful blending of unyielding revolutionary sentiments, artful songwriting, competent guitar work and vocals, and the kind of red, raw anger and dark, black despair (peeking out from behind a noble effort at hopefulness) that doesn't even consider giving quarter. For the (perhaps) handful of us who are drawn to the rock medium for our propaganda efforts and wouldn't give the bourgoisie so much as a pleasant nod of the head if they paid us, who might have thought we'd exhausted our lifelong opportunities to see the two joined together effectively when punk rock died in 1980, this is a near perfect album. Perhaps only Phil Ochs "The Ringing of Revolution" can hope to beat out Easterhouse's lyrics: "Where is the man who's speaking out for me? Community leaders want more black shopkeepers, the union's a say in the jobs sold away, and I'm told that my homes in a nuclear free zone, but that ain't much help when there's bills to be paid. Police accountability, non-nuclear war strategies have made the fight a mockery." This album would be worth several times over its cost, just to play that at full volume at some Kerry-supporting liberal Leftist poser!