Contenders [IMPORT]

Easterhouse

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 18, 2001)
• Original Release Date: June 1986
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Cherry Red UK
• ASIN: B00005CDUC
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #264,967 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars True Soul Music, February 17, 2003

By	Todd Boostrom (Pacific Palisades, CA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Pop and politics don't always mix well together, but this album is a stunning exception. Like all great soul music, Contenders evokes a mood and tells its story beautifully within the limitations of the pop song format. The haunting vocals and spidery guitars frame the heartfelt lyrics to maximum effect. This isn't a great album because of its political content; it's a great album because it's great music coupled with fantastic storytelling. Even if Lenin doesn't get your motor revving, don't miss out on Contenders.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best political rock album out there, October 3, 2001

By A Customer

The lyrics are powerful, both musically and politically. The Perry brothers are not afraid to say and explain their views, and do so to a rocking beat. If you are politically aware and a music lover, but don't have this album, then you are all wet!

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Easterhouse: System's A Bitch, With Whores for its Lovers, January 19, 2005

By	Peter Urban "Council Communist" (San Francisco,) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is such a brilliant album I almost cried when I heard Waiting for the Redbird, the follow-up album by the rump left by the Perry brother's split in the ranks of Easterhouse. It is a beautiful blending of unyielding revolutionary sentiments, artful songwriting, competent guitar work and vocals, and the kind of red, raw anger and dark, black despair (peeking out from behind a noble effort at hopefulness) that doesn't even consider giving quarter. For the (perhaps) handful of us who are drawn to the rock medium for our propaganda efforts and wouldn't give the bourgoisie so much as a pleasant nod of the head if they paid us, who might have thought we'd exhausted our lifelong opportunities to see the two joined together effectively when punk rock died in 1980, this is a near perfect album. Perhaps only Phil Ochs "The Ringing of Revolution" can hope to beat out Easterhouse's lyrics: "Where is the man who's speaking out for me? Community leaders want more black shopkeepers, the union's a say in the jobs sold away, and I'm told that my homes in a nuclear free zone, but that ain't much help when there's bills to be paid. Police accountability, non-nuclear war strategies have made the fight a mockery." This album would be worth several times over its cost, just to play that at full volume at some Kerry-supporting liberal Leftist poser!