Method to Our Madness

Lords Of The New Church | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: A&M
• ASIN: B000008HUJ
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #449,734 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Method to My Madness

2. In Ever Believed

3. Pretty Baby Scream

4. When Blood Runs Cold

5. Fresh Flesh

6. Murder Style

7. The Seducer

8. Kiss of Death

9. Do What Thou Wilt

10. My Kingdom Come

11. Dreams and Desires

12. A Gun Called Justice

13. Good to Be Bad

14. Mind Wrap

Customer Reviews

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars MADNESS that this band didn't get HUGE, March 17, 2004

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J. KELLY "Shamus Kelly" (Dublin, Ohio) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Method to Our Madness (Audio CD)

The Lords of the New Church should have been huge. The 80's were a bad place to be a rock band (unless you were IRS labelmates The Police or U2) as demonstrated by the lack of success this album did back in 1984. The original production by Chris Tsangarides was tinny and actually gave the listener a massive headache. This release has the bass lifted in the mix and what do we get? A beautiful album meant to be played real LOUD. The Lords mixed punk, pop, and metal perfectly and somehow didn't get to the top of the chart thanks to fans of Kajagoogoo and Haircut 100 and whoever else was getting hits at the time.

GOD BLESS STIV, BRIAN, DAVE, AND NICKY!
You guys were great and this album is testament.

5.0 out of 5 stars Price too high??, September 7, 2011

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M. Brown "M. Brown" (CLEVELAND, OH USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Method to Our Madness (Audio CD)

I own this same Remastered CD, and can't understand why it costs do damn much! I mean, I Love the album, but - why so much??
...if anyone wants a copy, please feel free to contact me at this e-mail address: auctionbids121 (at) AOL . com.

I Love to share & trade great music! :) I own this + many other rare recordings, and I don't peddle b.s.

Peace,
Michael

4.0 out of 5 stars One of the 80's great post-punk bands, January 18, 2011

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Daimonion (Oakland, CA.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Method to Our Madness (Audio CD)

The Lords were a unique band, mixing 70's punk with the emerging Gothic sounds, and 60's garage and psychedelic into their dark rock 'n roll style, and also touching upon many social and political themes but without preaching.

Their debut album in 1982 is a classic and their best ever. They never managed to live up to the promise of that powerful piece of apocalyptic darkness. But this, their third album, is a close second. It's their most hard rocking record, as well as the most diverse in style and texture. There's acoustic guitars, saxophone, pianos, female backing vocals, and a wide range of approaches from very dark minimalist deathrock to straight-up blasting hard rock.

This release contains several bonus tracks, which were culled from various B-sides. Gun Called Justice was the flipside to their cover of Madonna's Like A Virgin, and mindwarp was from the Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2 soundtrack. The other songs came out on the Psycho Sex EP from 1987, which was really more of a demo but got released for some reason.

The one thing that disappoints me about this rerelease is the exclusion of the song SF&T, which was a favorite of mine from the album. I don't know why it was deleted, as it fit in with the rest of the material well, both thematically and musically. I've never been able to find that song on any other compilations or releases. The only place is on the original vinyl, which I luckily still have.

There really isn't a weak track on this CD. It's strong all the way through, but standouts are Pretty Baby Scream, Murder Style, the title track. Get this and the Debut from 1982, if you can find them without paying a fortune. It's really too bad because this band should have been much bigger than they were and they only recorded a few records before collapsing. Now the music is increasingly harder to find and more pricey all the time. They were an intense live band, too. I had the opportunity to see them 4 times between 1985 and 88.