No Need to Panic [Import]

G.B.H. | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 9, 2006)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Captain Oi
• ASIN: B000065CT5
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #44,054 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #68 in Music > Alternative Rock > British Alternative > British Punk

Track Listings

1. Transylvanian Perfume

2. Hearing Screams (For the Last Time)

3. To Understand

4. Makin' Whips

5. I Shot the Marshall

6. Electricity Through Space

7. Hit the Deck

8. Rumblin' Underground

9. Desperate Times

10. Gunning for the President

11. Avenues and Alleyways

12. Unanswered Prayers

13. Checkin' Out [*]

14. No One Cares [*]

15. Infected [*]

16. Tipuki Thunder [*]

Editorial Reviews

The fourth G.B.H. studio album, first issued by Rough Justice in 1987, finally gets a 'proper' CD release courtesy of Captain Oi! The rare "Wot A Bargain" EP has been added to give four bonus tracks and that, along with lyrics to every song and liner notes, makes this a welcome addition to our G.B.H. re-issue campaign.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars A modest leap for punk-kind, September 19, 2011

By 

Todd R. Brown (San Francisco) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: No Need to Panic (Audio CD)

Looking back, this album doesn't sound like such a departure from the ultra-hardcore style of earlier GBH, but you'd think the disc never existed trying to find it on iTunes -- or searching for any acclaim for the recording.

I suppose the album was a "sellout" since the band had learned to play with slightly more sophistication than before, mixing in some Steve Jones-like guitar flourishes, producing a cleaner sound with sharper, non-shouted-along vocals and -- gasp -- slowing down the tempos ever so slightly (check out Desperate Times, Hearing Screams and Tipuki Thunder for decent examples). Sheesh, the last album cut even has Latin-ish rhythmic syncopation.

Heresy for the late '80s punk-by-numbers music scene, which recoiled at the slightest inkling of a hammer-on heavy metal solo even as thrash blurred the line between metal and punk (and guitarists ate the mainstream sound up).

This album made a big impression on me, all the more when I realized how "far" the band had come from its cookie cutter oi origins. This was the kind of music I thought deserved an audience, not Cinderella or Dokken or whatever.

But leave it to the holier than though hardcore scene to excommunicate the unbelievers.... I imagine the band is stuck on permanent retro rotation, forever grinding out pre-"No Need to Panic" tunes for an aging audience of intolerant regressives, much the way 7 Seconds eschews the genius "New Wind" album in concert, save the couple atavistic hardcore tracks on there, in favor of the earlier and "purer" sound. For more on that: [...]

The rest of us can enjoy deserving music on its own merits.

5.0 out of 5 stars Little better than MM and B, October 14, 2005

By 

Steve "SBN" (Kenosha, WI) - See all my reviews

This review is from: No Need to Panic (Audio CD)

I liked this a little more than MM and B. first of all, there is a different drummer in this (he used a double bass drum so the style is a little different.), secondly the gang came up with some of the wackiest songs ever (gunning for the president, I shot the Marshall, Transylvanian Perfume and electricity through space), and finally, in the beginning of each song it's a little spoken word before the song begins. get this if you can.