In mid-1999, a very sad thing happened. Due to musical differences, the EMI record label decided to drop Terrorvision, one of the best and most fun rock bands of the 1990’s. The reasoning behind it was simple – EMI had lost around £1 million on Terrorvision in the eight years they had been ... Read review
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Good to Go -
Terrorvision's barkingly brilliant 1996 albumRegular Urban Survivors(loud rock music with
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big luminous tunes in it; scientists were baffled) arrived in the aftermath of all that moping, stoop-shouldered grunge stuff and was as welcome as a sunlamp in a...
Good to Go -
Terrorvision's barkingly brilliant 1996 albumRegular Urban Survivors(loud rock music with
... more
big luminous tunes in it; scientists were baffled) arrived in the aftermath of all that moping, stoop-shouldered grunge stuff and was as welcome as a sunlamp in a...
Advantages: Better than the previous album Disadvantages: Not the greatest way to end a recording career
...death. It’s not as good as the “How to Make Friends and Influence People” album which made 1994 the year of Terrorvision on the rock circuit, but it certainly wasn’t far behind “Regular Urban Survivors”, which had produced their biggest hit thus far in 1996. And it knocked spots off “Shaving Peaches” which, after all, was the band’s main aim at that point. It stuck two fingers up at EMI and shouted “we’re still here, and we’re still great!” Had either ... ...thing Terrorvision have always been good at is pleasing a live crowd. And what better way to keep them happy than to have a song with a huge singalong chorus which contains a swear word. “Friends and Family” opens with the immortal lines “Party over here/F**k you over there”. Again, lessons have been learned from “Tequila” in that there appears to be some schoolchildren taking backing vocals during the chorus, which can’t really be on! The song itself ...
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Advantages: Some decent bouncy rock-pop tunes Disadvantages: Tony's voice isn't quite right for the ballads
...nonsensical lyrics.
"Desolation Town" has a similar kind of cowboy ballad feel to "Killing Time", although it is a slightly more mid-tempo tune. Tony's vocal still doesn't quite work with the quieter musical backing and the song sounds a little like a slightly less accomplished version of "Sometimes I'd Like to Kill Her" from the "Good to Go" album in parts.
There's again a deceptively quiet, almost acoustic intro to "My House" before the song launches straight into Terrorvision territory, with a mid-tempo bouncy pop-metal tune, some silly but somehow catchy lyrics and a highly cheesy "do-do-do" section that Terrorvision were to use several times throughout their career. There's also a great sing along section that made this one always likely to be a live favourite, as it would be for more than 10 years until the band split and still...
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Album Notes: The sound on 'Good To Go' is very distant from the band's early gritty rock sound and falls very much into the genre of pop-rock. Whereas the band's early guitar sound was heavily rooted in metal, the riffs here are much more Nashville country oriented, and electronic drum pad beats replace the kit sound of their 1992 debut 'Formaldehyde'. Despite these changes the band's music retains its dark undertones on this release.
Titles on disc 1
1.: D'ya Wanna Go Faster
2.: Come Home Beanie
3.: Friends And Family
4.: Sometimes I'd Like To Kill Her
5.: Alone
6.: Fists Of Fury
7.: Unhappy Millionaire
8.: Days Like These
9.: From Out Of Nothing
10.: Subway
11.: Goldmine Jamjar
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