Royal Society [Import]

Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 1, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Mca UK
• ASIN: B000630NGW
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #122,020 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Rise Of The Eagles

2. I Could Be An Angel

3. When I Hear You Call My Name

4. Migrate Migraine

5. Puppy Dog Snails

6. Dancing Girls

7. Fool

8. I Rejection

9. Drunk On The Blood

10. Mister Mental

11. Freud's Black Muck

12. Temple Music

13. Way Of The Men Of The Stuff

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Perfectly nasty rock and roll, February 10, 2009

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Spaghetti A Go-Go (Portland, OR) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Royal Society (Audio CD)

So what exactly would manifest if, say, Nick Cave and Iggy Pop joined together in perfectly nasty rock and roll whoopee? I think the end product would be a little rock and roll devil child known as The Eighties

Matchbox B-Line Disaster. Their place and purpose on this earth is a nasty path walked with a dashingly sinister grin. Start with a delectable serving of twisted bedtime narratives peppered with inspiration from the likes of Brothers Grimm and other gothic ne'er-do-wells, throw in a dash of thrash and slash manic lunacy and you've got the album Royal Society. These fellows aren't trying to be bad, they simply exist on the toxic ingredients with which they were conceived and that's what makes them so incredibly legit.

The album seems to be split like some two-headed serpent slithering up through the bowels of Hades. The first half; crunched and jingly tales of caution and madness dipped in a witch's brew of devil's hymns. But where `The Dancing Girls' creeps to an unsettling close `The Fool' takes over and a second personality takes hold, grinding the psychobilly fanatics of The Cramps through a thrash metal coalition of country fried western and the best of British garage rock. "Give me your heart cuz I feel like the tin man!" Lux Interior would be proud. The songwriting gives the impression these lads put pen to paper in some thick wooded cabin listening to the darkest of Black Sabbath's catalogue. The songs `Puppy Dog Snails' and `Drunk on the Blood' come to mind with their demented

chorus recalling some of the most impish of medieval folklore.

It's an experience that leaves me fascinated by music's versatility and potential. It's hard to describe in words the atomic force behind the mad preacher vocals riding the guitar like a ghostrider tearing straight out of hell. It's a soundtrack for that long infernal drive through Death Valley on a summer day. Pop it in and fly like a bat straight outta hell!

My hands have been nailed to this album for more than a year and the zest hasn't worn. It's time tested and just as exhilarating. Find it somewhere, get it imported, it's a tough one to find but very worth the search. It'll put faith back into the void of great rock and roll acts.

4.0 out of 5 stars Royal Society, August 12, 2010

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Lachlan William Richardson (Yarraville, Vic, AU) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Royal Society (Audio CD)

Royal Society comes as a logical step in this band's progression. After blistering debut Horse of the Dog it was always going to be interesting to see how the group would follow up such a convincingly solid debut, never an easy task. The answer is a natural exploration of how the band could expand on their "psychosis rock" sound which is often with what seems a natural maturity and to great effect on songs like "Rise of the Eagles" and "Mister Mental" and at times a little forced and seemingly less focused on numbers like "Puppy Dog Snails" which clumsily trails through an awkward nursery rhyme style song almost parodying themselves in the process. For the few weaker moments though, and there is only a few, the album is a brilliant expansion of the ideas the Eighties' laid down on their debut. Top notch in fact.

5.0 out of 5 stars Weird. Crazy. Psychotic. Quirky. Funny. Dark. GREAT!, July 13, 2005

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Michiel Heinicke (Amsterdam, NL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Royal Society (Audio CD)

Probably the weirdest album Ive heard in a while. But I can't get enough of it. I don't even know how I could describe the music of The 80s Matchbox B-line Disaster. Its rock n roll allright.... but there's something really...uhhh....strange about their sound, it reminds me of a FREAK SHOW at a Circus, know what I mean? No? Well I don't even know it myself. And the LYRICS..."What sould we do with the puppy dog's tail?" How do they COME UP with that stuff. I really want to see this band live, so I hope they'll show up over here maybe later this year.