by
The Go! Team
- Record Label: Memphis Industries
- Release Date: Oct 4, 2005
User Score
Universal acclaim- based on 74 Ratings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 65 out of 74
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Mixed: 6 out of 74
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Negative: 3 out of 74
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RickwFeb 3, 2006
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SeanTDec 11, 2005gets real old real quick but the energy thats there is pretty impressive.
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PeterB.Dec 10, 2005Reasonably inventive with a refreshingly retro edge. Choatic and busy. Some great tunes but as an album this is ultimately a bit samey, and one gets a nagging sense of "style-over-substance". Still one of the more interesting bands around at the moment, and worth a listen.
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RBlandDec 8, 2005like cheerleaders with a back-up band, playing to a high school gymnasium filled with sugar-shivered teens. Which is fine, if you like that kind of thing. More overhyped than the Shins.
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DanthemanOct 2, 2005It's OK. Approach with caution.
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Awards & Rankings
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Though they certainly do their fair share of sampling, they tend to use fragments as a means of fleshing out the battling, overdriven guitars, triumphant trumpet lines, and drum assaults that seem to break through walls with the barreling force of a thousand Kool-Aid men.
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Although by the record's second half the brassy, treble-kicked sound wears a little thin, there are enough gems to keep the release fresh through the end of its 35 minutes.
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"Thunder, Lightning, Strike" is an immensely derivative album, but one which cuts and pastes its influences in a strikingly original way. Chiefly, by piling them all on at once.