Let's Get This Mother Outta Here

Ship of Fools | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 28, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Peaceville UK
• ASIN: B000069DQG
• Also Available in: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #563,027 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Full title - Let's Get This Mother Outta Here. Compilation from early 90s band, featuring Les Smith, later of Cradle Of Filth & Anathema. Digitally remastered, re-edited and remastered. Also contains video of 'L=SD Squared'. Digipak. Peaceville. 2003.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Ship Of Fools - 'Let's Get This Mother Outta Here' (Snapper), December 19, 2004

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Mike Reed (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Let's Get This Mother Outta Here (Audio CD)

'Let's Get...' is basically nine tracks from the Yorkshire band's two lp's they released in the early '90's,'Close Your Eyes' and 'Out There Somewhere'.Ship Of Fools are best described as smoothly played progressive psych,or some may just tag them as trippy festival-like space rock.Tunes I liked best were "L=SD 2","First Light",the fourteen-minute atmospheric "From Time" and "Passage By Night".The line-up for this short-lived UK ensemble was:Les Smith-keyboards(now in Cradle Of Filth),Andy Banks-guitar,Sputnik-bass and Mick Reed-drums.Great to listen to late at night.Should appeal to most fans of earlier Pink Folyd,Ozric Tentacles and Porcupine Tree.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Hallucinogenic Architectures, February 7, 2003

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This review is from: Let's Get This Mother Outta Here (Audio CD)

From Yorkshire, England, Ship Of Fools are My Dying Bride's lunatic neighbours by excellence. The band was created around '92 & has released two full-length albums via Dreamtime Records (a small sister label of Peaceville), now what we have here is a retrospective album combining the best moments of hallucinogenic trips newly remixed & digitally remastered.
For those of you not aware, Ship Of Fools was a mind-altering project counting with, among other mentally deranged members, Les Smith. Who later went on to join Cradle Of Filth, and is currently a part of Anathema's line-up.
The old days seemed rather joyful for the band playing every free party, festival & rave in the country. Constructing animated architectures on the audience, a slow dance of golden lights near to what Huxley would call the miracle of mescaline, the gazing twist in the universe of objective facts, the tearing of the abstract perception.
I'm sure this is a definite prescription from British psychiatric halls, a divine taste of what experimentalism is capable of inducing, and certainly very fascinating for those bored with the growing Metal scene. The images reproduced through the various audio ambiences is a rich melting pot of coloured landscapes and varied geometries. Most of the stuff is instrumental, with some minor samples here n' there to evoke a particular mood. Personally, I find Ship Of Fools very relaxing and good to listen while working or arranging a pile of papers hanging around my desk for weeks; they truly give a kick on you get high or trip somehow. Really, it's not annoying and gives a sense of acid inner-peace somehow running through your head and coming back to puzzle your thoughts & memories.
"Let's Get This Mother Outta Here" might be a wonderful discovery for the more spaced-out listeners, willing to transcend the limits of audio chemistry and even their own neurones, my suggestion is to give a it a try & discover for yourself what lies beyond such awkward mental conceptions.
Abyss Magazine @ Nuno M. [CR]

5.0 out of 5 stars I Don't think we're in Kansas anymore Toto, August 4, 2007

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Daniel James "Isingularity" (Melbourne, Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Let's Get This Mother Outta Here (Audio CD)

As a mad black metal fan searching Ebay for some rare items I chanced upon this album and thought what the hell this sounds a little different. I'm glad I chose to bid on this album, its certainly not black metal but it is just as interesting, engaging and atmospheric as the black metal scene from Norway in the early 1990's. I won't bore you by repeating comments of others, the tracks are pretty much as described by other reviews. I like the blending of sound bites from the Wizard of Oz, which to kind of sums up the journey that is 'Lets Get this Mother Out of Here'. I would name Guidence is Internal, Where isHere, and From Time as highlight tracks, though all songs are fantastic. Seriously people, give this album a red hot go.