Revenge of the Goldfish

Inspiral Carpets | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 13, 1992)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Elektra / Wea
• ASIN: B000002HBR
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #221,692 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Generations

2. Saviour

3. Bitches Brew

4. Smoking Her Clothes

5. Fire

6. Here Comes The Flood

7. Dragging Me Down

8. A Little Disappeared

9. Two Worlds Collide

10. Mystery

11. Rain Song

12. Irresistible Force

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars (Four and a half stars) Their best album, December 7, 2005

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trainreader (Montclair, N.J.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Revenge of the Goldfish (Audio CD)

Basically with the very solid "Revenge of the Goldfish," the Inspiral Carpets combined the best aspects of their buoyant retro-sounding debut album, "Life," and their more serious weightier second album, "The Beast Inside." Start to finish, "Revenge" is exciting, and a pleasure to listen to. I especially like four songs: "Generations," "I'm Not Your Saviour," "Smoking Her Clothes," and "Two Worlds Collide," which I consider four of the band's all-time best. The first two mentioned need almost be listened to together in order to fully appreciate each. Along with "Smoking Her Clothes" the band demonstrates tremendous vitality, with fine lyrics and great vocal and organ work. "Two Worlds Collide," has an almost apocalyptic feel to it, and is easily the band's most interestingly unique song.

While there are other British bands from this period that I like better -- i.e. The Stone Roses, Charlatans, Verve, Ride, Catherine Wheel -- "Revenge of the Goldfish," which is the Inspiral Carpets at their best, stands up as among the better albums from the British groups of this era. No other post-1960s band has used a retro-sounding organ so effectively as Inspiral organist Clint Boon did. Plus, Tom Hingley's vocal work really stands out here, and is quite different from those other Ian Brown (Stone Roses) sounding front-men.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Relisten, not review!, March 17, 2002

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jose janeiro (Mourisca do Vouga, Portugal) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Revenge of the Goldfish (Audio CD)

Time is best judge of music. Not sales or fans or media. Just time. And this brilliant album aged gloriously. Ten yars later,
still powerful, contagious, euforical and fresh, it step to a
higher level, where only masterpieces have place.
Sales...
Critics...
Hype...
Who cares?
The art work on this album sings for it self!

The greatest sadness of all, is the fact that, when i die,i will never be able to take this record to heaven...

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Im not your Saviour, im not here to Help You., September 21, 2005

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J. H. Infante (Guadalajara, Ja, Mex) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Revenge of the Goldfish (Audio CD)

Careless!!!! or insouciant shall we say? Inspiral Carpets released "Revenge of the Goldfish" wich is between other of their releases like "Devil Hopping" among others the best of the 90s British albums, they helped to define the past decade in its own identity, Stone Roses, soup dragons, charlatans uk etc did their part, this time Inspiral Carpents deserve my mention british avant-garde rock, and the sound of manchester were a part of my life at the time and still i keep a room for this genre
HM