Scissorgun

Crispy Ambulance | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 9, 2002)
• Original Release Date: 2001
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Darla Records / LTM
• ASIN: B000063KR6
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #396,047 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Former Factory Records band Crispy Ambulance have recorded a superb album of all-new material titled Scissorgun. The ten tracks were recorded in with producer Graham Massey a long-term band associate whose previous credits include 808 State Bjork Blue Pearl & Biting Tongues. \n\nThroughout their short recording career Manchester band Crispy Ambulance were unjustly dismissed as sub-standard Joy Division plagiarists notable only as proof that Factory was as fallible as any other label. The

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars hard to believe..., August 1, 2002

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Christian Bonner (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Scissorgun (Audio CD)

Just the fact that it's 2002 and we have a new Crispy Ambulance album is incredible enough. Even more amazing is how great this album is. It's been said before but here C.A. seem to pick up right where they left off - the sound is fresh and new yet familiar at the same time. The songs themselves are among the strongest C.A's ever come up with - "Re-Animator" and "Heatwave" in particular. I just hope there's more where this came from!
As a sidenote, if you don't have "the plateau phase", get that first. It is a masterpiece.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Welcome BACK!!!, April 22, 2002

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Michael C. Tellison (Chicago, IL USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Scissorgun (Audio CD)

Thank GOD they're back, but it's still kind of sad to see how many people have never heard of them. I hope this album changes that situation. This has certainly been a long time coming. Also wonderful to see the Thanks to James Nice mentioned on the cd. All of these tracks pick right up where Crispy Ambulance left off in the mid eighties. From the opening welcome of "Step up" to the industrial throb (interwoven with a tasty little melody) called "Even in Heaven the Angels Carry Savage Weapons" and subsequently finishing up with the feedback-tweaked "Soundblock". This is what's missing in today's "music" and it's SO wonderful to hear the boys slipping and sliding again. Heartfelt thanks to the Ambulance for this top-notch sonic rescue. 2 words of advice to you...BUY THIS!!!!

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars bringing it all back home, April 17, 2002

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R. S. Moore "book maven" (Bloomfield, NJ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Scissorgun (Audio CD)

100% correct. how can they make 'now' sound so authentically like 'then'? this album blows my mind.

a timeless masterwork lost in today's sewerbowl.