Bomberboy's Reviews

[bomberboy]

Public Image Limited- Happy?
Alternative Rock

Public Image Limited had by now moved away from the more experimental music they did during the Wobble/Levene era. They have now settled for a more guitar orientated dance/rock style with synths inside as well. PiL however did not make a bad album.

John McGeogh's Guitar is heard through out and is played skill fully along with Lu Edmonds Guitar and Keyboards. Allan Diaz Bass is still heard a lot and isn't a background noise like most, John Lydon's vocals are good and are beginning to sound like he is now but are still good and sings authortive in Hard Times and is serious, while in The Body he sings in a deep almost funny voice and the lyrics talk about abortion but in a less serious way than the Sex Pistols Bodies, the female backing sing less in this album than in their next album but are still great at backing up John Lydon. Bruce Smith does some great Drum work and they sound like electronic drums (not drum machine) again showing their change of direction. The song Seattle deserves its place as first. Its Bassline is better than Metal Boxes Dub influenced sounds and sounds more rock which is better. Lu and Johns guitar work are letting out rhythems at the same speed as each other and work well with the bass. Hard Times, in my opinion is the best song on the album and should have been released as a single as well as The Body and Seattle. Lu Edmonds uses his instrument (don't know what its called) well as the lead instrument and its sound from beginning to end is almost the same. Allan's Bass is still dominant and works well with the other instruments. John McGeogh does a great solo in the middle and end of the song and sounds almost synthy along with the keyboards. John Lydon sings serious and melodic (in a way) and Bruce does his thing.

The rest of the songs are also great and Rules and Regulations the second song points the direction they will take in their next album 9.

What do I give it?
5/5 Better than Metal Box.

Song list
Seattle......3:40
Rules and Regulations.......4:32
The Body.......3:11
Save Me.......4:50
Hard Times.......3:42
Open and Revolving.......4:01
Angry.......4:13
Fat Chance Hotel.......7:03

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Hard Times (Warning Johnny puts the V's up)


The Body


Seattle

[God]

Hmmm the reviews for this on rateyourmusic.com aren't that good... I've only heard Metal Box though. May listen to this later.

EDIT: Didn't see the sample vids - *listens*

[bomberboy]

I know reviews aren't that good because most PiL fans and critics look down on the this line up and the 83, 84-85 line up because of the different direction. Plus this and the next albums are underrated when really they're just as good as Early PiL.

[God]

I actually really liked all of those - I think I prefer the rawer/more experimental sound of Metal Box though.

[bomberboy]

I much prefer these, metal box is too overrated.

[bomberboy]

New review coming soon, about Hot Chips Album Made in the Dark.

[bomberboy]

Hot Chip- Made In the Dark
Electronic

Hot Chip are perhaps my only favourite modern electronic band apart from Goldfrapp that I like. Why do I like them? Because they're different to any other electronic band out there, because their drumbeats don't sound the same the synths are different different instruments are used like guitars, bass guitars and even normal percussion.

Anyway back to the album. As I'm typing this the album has finished and I'll tell you about it. Hot Chip have made a solid album here. The Synths are almost psyhcedelic and the drumbeats are very different to each other, instead of the other bands which use those crap poppy beats all the time. Alexis Taylor and Joe Goddard's vocals are also great, as they are also different to others but I don't quite understand that bit yet. The track opens up with Out at the Pictures, which sounds like another one a bit too Hip Hop for me. But still a great song to open up with. Then after the second song we get the best song out of the entire album, thats great live. Ready for the Floor. It has great guitar sounds and the synths are quite minimal. And this is where the drum machine really is different. Another song which I like is the song Touch too Much, has a synth line that sounds like an organ and really is suited to this. Hold on, is my second most loved of this song and is great to dance too and it isn't Alexis that sings Hold on, its Joe Goddard and Al Doyle that sing it. Again all the songs(even though I've never heard most of them live) sound different then these studio recordings when live and thats what make these group of lads great.

Overral the songs are great but those that sound a bit hip hop and the ballards do make it have a downside but its not much.

A close 4.5/5

Out at the Pictures.......4:26
Shake a Fist.......5:10
Ready for the Floor.......3:52
Bendable Poseable.......3:46
Were Looking for a Lot of Love.......4:43
Touch Too Much.......4:05
Made in the Dark.......3:00
One Pure Thought.......4:53
Hold On.......6:20
Wrestlers.......3:45
Dont Dance.......4:42
Whistle for Will.......2:23
In the Privacy of Our Love.......2:52

Bonus Tracks (Itunes only)
So Deep.......2:34
With Each New Day.......2:58
Bubbles They Bounce.......5:52

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Note how the songs are different
Ready for the Floor



Hold On


Made in the Dark

[bomberboy]

Japan- Adolecent Sex
Glam Rock

Even though I don't know much about this band I like this album since its the first I've listened to. Where can I start, Japan are one of the most influencial bands from the eighties and seventies, but its in the eighties where they were more influencial. I'm talking about the seventies work they did.

This album is mainly guitar driven work but its synths are built in all the way through but at different points. Showing then they weren't using the Synthesizer more then than they did in the early eighties. The first track Transmission (not the same as the Joy Division song of the same name) is full of guitars and the bass is heard a lot as well the synths doing some good work. The Guitar has a good job and David Sylvians vocals are more high pitched than the later vocals he would use. Another track The Unconventional is quite funky as well as a couple more, this makes it a very versitile album. The Synths are used well making many different sounds and adding the goodness into it. The Bass is funky and glam rock all the way through. The Guitar heavy in places and sometimes light and funky. The vocals are sung as one reviewer on Napster said sexy ina way on one song. I think he does it all the way through, but that could be the tone of his voice at this stage. Apart from the usual Glam Rock and Funky sounds that populate the album, a bit of RnB is put inside and as well as some more Rock elements and this really makes it different to any glam rock sound I've heard and is more varied than David Bowies Glam Rock.

With a nice bass guitar I can properly hear (which I like) great guitar and synth work this is another 4.5/5.

Song List
Transmission.......4:46
The Unconventional.......3:02
Wish you were Black.......4:49
Performance.......4:36
Lovers on Main Street.......4:09
Don't Rain on my Parade.......2:54
Suburban Love.......7:27
Adolecent Sex.......3:46
Communist China.......2:44
Television.......9:15

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Communist China


Adolecent Sex


Don't Rain on my Parade

[bomberboy]

New Order- Movement
Post-Punk

New Order were formed after Ian Curtis lead singer of Joy Division (The Band before New Order) killed himself in 1980 on the eve of their American Tour. The surviving members: Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook and Stephen Morris formed New Order and chose to carry on without Ian Curtis. Along with Stephen Morris' girlfriend Gillian Gilbert they made their first album Movement.

This Album has been treated unkindly by critics because they said it was lack of forward momentum. Well at least they got themselves a good record here. The first track, Dreams Never End, is the only happy song on the album sung by Peter Hook (he also sings on Doubts Even Here), at first I was not keen on his vocals on this but I've since then grown to like it, the rest of the songs are sung by Bernard. Its bass is high and he plays the high notes skillfully. Gillian and Bernard put their guitars to good effect supporting Hook. Stephen Morris continues to be a great Drummer in this. It was the only Guitar-Bass-Drum song on the entire album. The next song we have here is Truth it contains a brilliant drum machine beat and the melodica part by Bernard Sumner is sparce but effective. So is Gillians guitar is sparce which I believe she plays only twice, switching between Guitar and Synths. Peter still does his basslines dominent. Chosen Time is a dancy tune in a way even though its Post Punk. Its Bass and Keyboards are turning into what New Order would eventually become. The Album has sound effects placed in the right spots by Martin Hannett, and his producing makes this record great. A pity he didn't work with New Order after this, and had major problems. He and both New Order and Joy Division made a good team. The Albums Synths are lower than what they would use later and the guitars are higher and the bass is often low and high.

Overall I see no problem with this record the band was only trying to progress out of their Joy Division style and into their own. A great 5/5.

Track List
Dreams Never End.......3:13
Truth.......4:37
Senses.......4:45
Chosen Time.......4:07
ICB.......4:33
The Him.......5:31
Doubts Even Here.......4:19
Denial.......4:19

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

All these are live and I thought I would add a seperate song not on the album.
Truth


Senses


Dreams Never End


Chosen Time


Denial


ICB (Quality's not great)


Everythings Gone green

[bomberboy]

New Orders Second Album will be reviewed next.

[bomberboy]

New Order- Power, Corruption & Lies
Electronic/Post Punk

Power, Corruption & Lies was released two years after Movement, and was voted in 1989 #94 best album of the 1980's. Well I'm not so sure. The differences between Movement and this one is that, Barney's vocals have changed significantly from a deep voice to a high voice, I find it a bit too high in a lot of occasions which can be quite annoying. The first track is Age of Consent, which is the best song on the album (UK version). Its bassline is great, and the keyboards are done wonderfully, and the drum work is still impressive. Bernard sings high but not too high, but it isn't like the vocals in Movement, which I like better. The next track, We All Stand was a let down for me. Bernard tries to sing in an epic high voice and fails to make me like it plus, the drum work is hard to tell if its a drum machine or a normal drum kit. And the keyboards and bass aren't at their best, and sounds too un New Order in a way because of for some reason it sounds like Funk crossed with Disco. The next track The Village, is another song I'm not keen on either. It sounds too cheesy and sounds like an early video game sound track, mixed with a bass line that sounds eastern in a way. The vocals are also another let down for me. The next track was a little bit better the beginning was slow and good but then it went fast all of a sudden and sounded like a cover version of Blue Monday. Then as I was hoping for a song I knew I would like, it finally came. Your Silent Face is the second best track on the album. It has a nice up lifting melodica solo, and the keyboards also sound more up lifting. The bass and drums are even better than the previous two songs but not as good as Age of Consent. The next song, Ultraviolence was a great piece of instrumentation but the vocals aren't particularly good. The next song Ecstacy is an instrumental, which is great and I was glad this was next. The last song Leave me Alone's guitar sounds like a modern rock solo which of course doesn't sound good at all. Its overall goodness sort of just below average to just about average. I believe it may be the only guitar-bass-drums song but I don't remember much about it. In the US release Blue Monday is on it which from experience listening to it would be the best track on it.

Overall more uplifting with a good song at the beginning, two not so good songs after a good song after them, a good piece of instrumentation after that one with bad vocals like most of them a great instrumental and a too modern mainstream sounding track last. I give it a rather dull 3/5. But even though I am a New Order fan this will be up in the top ranks of great NO albums but for me its not.

Age of consent.......5:16
We All Stand.......5:15
The Village.......4:37
586.......7:31
Your Silent Face.......5:59
Ultraviolence.......4:52
Ecstacy.......4:26
Leave me Alone.......4:40
Blue Monday (US version).......7:24

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

All live
Blue Monday


Age of Consent

[bomberboy]

Kaiser Chiefs- Employment (Limited Edition)
Indie Rock

The Kaiser Chiefs, one of my favourite modern bands. Why would I like this modern rock band? Because they sound different than most that I've heard. The guitar's aren't that stupid high pitched nonsence most put out. Its heavier and slower than what their's are. This Album Employment is inspired by the New Wave and Punk Rock of the 70's, and they do a good job of using those influences and not copying the bands.

The first song Everyday I Love You Less and Less, is one of my favourite songs of their's, and starts of with a synth part that may sound like a video game, but I've never heard any others (modern indie or mainstream rock band) use it. The bass is pretty basic in my view, but it still goes well with the synth. The guitar played by Andrew "Whitey" White, does well for a left handed player and plays good tunes with it filling in, but drowns out the keyboards but it doesn't matter because you can still hear it in a lot of places or all the time. Next is well...their well known song, I Predict a Riot. The best song on the album, the guitars and drums are the best song and towards the end a small piece of a piano sound makes it as though the riot or rowdy night in Leeds (as it is sung about) has calmed down, but then speeds up and goes at the same speed again, as the riot takes full swing. The next song Modern Way, is a quieter song but the band do a good job with Ricky Wilson playing a simple Cow Bell Rythmn, but it goes well with the beat. Next is probably the rowdiest song Na na na naaa. Yes that is its name and they even go Na Na Na Naaa! It sounds punk rock, and has new wave in it as well making a good combination. Then again, after the song the pace goes slower and a keyboard led track replaces the rowdiness of Na na na naaa. It sounds great with good singing and the piano and bass mix well together, and the guitar solo is always top notch with these group of lads. The track is called You can have it all. Then comes the second or possibly the best Kaiser Chief track ever. Oh My God. The cover song quails in fear compared to this monster. It starts of with a bass and piano led beginning and then the guitar kicks in with a good solo and then it kicks in with a punk rock like feel, and makes it truly a monster compared to the Mark Ronson version, which is little more than a spec of dust compared to the Kaiser's solid tune. Then comes the trademark ahhhh of this song as they did it in I Predict a Riot and they often shout or probably scream it out loud live. The next song Born To Be a Dancer, starts off like Oh My God and another track up there, a bass and keyboard led intro. But it sounds like a song I've heard before and its like a musical in a way and it really is good. The Punk Rock influences are shown in one part of the song. The next is like Everyday I Love Less and Less, but is much more Punk Rock and the New Wave is used for the synths only. The song Saturday Night is really punky and sounds like there are trumpets in it, but its the guitars and synths that do that noise. After a little bit mid way it really sounds punk rock with a quick quiet guitar solo. Then it ends fast like most of the songs.

The Next song, sounds more New Wave and has quite a groovy feel to it but its not a particuly good song but still good as well so its average (note, while listening to it, it has gotten better) and sounds like a musical as well. Just like Born To Be a Dancer. Almost like a rock n roll Chicago it also has backing singers apart from drummer Nick Hodgson. The synths sound like an organ and it is an organ sound in several parts. Towards the end we are beginning to hear the new wave influences a lot now, as well as the punk ones getting stronger. Then we end up back in punk infuences, which is guitar driven a lot and I can't hear any keyboards at the end, and I can hear a tambourine and a cow bell being played simotaniously, which enhance the beat. In one part it sounds like 60's guitars mixed with 70's guitars. I can now hear the keyboards in the main verse merged with the guitar. Its called Time Honoured Tradition. Caroline, yes another new wave influenced song, with quiter guitars and more keyboards and in the chorus it sounds very rock n roll/punk rock, then goes new wave and rock n roll/ punk rock. It sounds serious like a few songs there and has a menacing guitar. The next song is a rather relaxed song that has psyhcdelic like keyboard solo, and the drums are equally like that. The vocals are also relaxed. The bass kicks in and then stops and also a bit of guitar. Then the guitars come in a tiny bit every now and then but the song builds up, and then the guitars begin to get more and more dominent with synths cutting in at the right time, and then ends. In a way its like saying the record has ended now here's some relaxing music to calm you down from you riot like dancing. Since the album is basically like describing a riot in my opinion, and the ending song Team Mate is like showing the aftermath. Everybodies calmed down and exhausted and has either been arrested or gone home and in away paints an image of the result of the riot.

With great singing and supporting percussion by Ricky Wilson and instrumentation bt Nick Baines, Nick Hodgson, Simon Rix and Andrew White this is a solid album and is way better than Yours Truly, Angry Mob. 5/5 is the score.

Track List
Everyday I Love You Less and Less.......3:38
I Predict a Riot.......3:53
Modern way.......4:04
Na Na Na Na Naaa.......3:00
You Can Have It All.......4:36
Oh My God.......3:35
Born To Be A Dancer.......3:31
Saturday Night.......3:27
What Did I Ever Give You.......4:09
Time Honoured Tradition.......2:45
Caroline, Yes.......4:10
Team Mate.......3:24

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

I Predict a Riot


Oh My God


Modern way


Everyday I Love You Less and Less

[God]

I've listened to the first 2 New Order albums. I agree with you that 'Movement' is better than 'P, C & L'. I just prefer the dark Joy Divisionesque post-punk to synth-pop.

[bomberboy]

Yeah it is better but they do get better at elctronic music later on. I was about to do another review but its too late at the moment tomorrow maybe.

[bomberboy]

Joy Division-Unknown Pleasures
Post-Punk

Joy Division the prequel of New Order with one different member. Ian Curtis. This is a great album and I would recomend anyone new to Joy Division should
start here or probaby their LP that was released in the 90s (I think, could be earlier). Well time to do the review.

The Album was produced by Martin Hannett, his skills are really shown in this piece of art, and make the sound of Joy Division unique and never to be copyed as good as the original. It starts of with Disorder, a little upbeat song that's not too depressing unlike the others. It has a rather nice guitar that pumps out notes on a high string, and allows the bass to be dominant which is nice and high and makes its self almost like a lead instrument. There are also some sound effects in it that sound like synths. The next track, Day of the Lords, is much more depressing than Disorder, and his voice is a lot more deeper and the guitar is harsher and almost sounds evil in a way thats good. The bass is still dominant, and keeps its self that way. Little bits of synth creep in at the chorus parts. The next song candidate is a slow song, and the guitars and bass are concentrated, and more civilised, compared to Day of the Lords. The drums in all these songs are great, and shows how much a good drummer Stephen Morris is, and the vocals by Ian are sounding toutured, depressed, shouted a little a bit paranoid (in She's Lost Control) of course he only sings that way and he sings in different ways through out the song and some of those words don't even describe those three songs. Insight, a song that is one of the unique ones on the album, that it uses a drum machine, that at one point I mistook it for a keyboard, since Stephen has not yet mastered the use of it, it sounds like Bom Bom and beeping sounds like on a computer or other electrical devices. Hooks bass sounds like it has evolved into New Order like bass lines, and the guitar is quietned down but you can just hear it. The drumming sounds minimal but is more in the verse where the drum machine uses only two beats after Ian stops singing before he starts again. Ian does a good job with the vocals. The next song New Dawn Fades, has a gloomy bass line and the guitar sounds held back and deep and the drums are minimal using a couple of beats until a drum roll goes at the end. Ian sounds like ice in this, and does a good Job. The guitar's solo is quiet and high pitched. Then after it kicks up speed with the guitars heavier and Ian begins to shout it out and the bass speeds up as well but the drums take their time to speed.

The next song is one of the best songs on it, She's Lost Control. It starts with a drum beat that has a clapping sound, and a drum beat that sounds like a ball being bounced. The vocals are sung paranoid. and echo ghostly throughout. The guitar sounds angry but supressed, and the bass is equally paranoid to the vocals. Shadowplay is a heavier song, and Ian sounds angry when he sings this, and like the other songs his voice is echoed. The bass and the drums start off slowly then after a short while, the guitar kicks in and then it continues to angry but its slow, and then at the end it ends a little faster than the begining. The next song Wilderness has a different bass line to most and doesn't drone it bends not going in a staight line most of the time. The guitar is heavy in this as well. Ian's voice is smooth and is again echoed and is higher. The guitar is also sounding like the bass, bent. The drums are sharp and quick. The guitar at one point sounds like a synthesizer. Interzone has a sound effect like a ghost, and the instruments sound more Punk than the others and even the vocals are Punk. But for some reason I believe Hook is playing lead vocals and Ian backing. But it could be Ian doing both. The drumming is quick and punky, another show of Stephens skills. Bernard Sumner does well with his guitar playing through out. The next song I Remember Nothing, is a song that has a low pitched synth, and the sound effects range from a glass being broken, and some kind of explosions. The keyboards start to get higher, and sounds like air or gas through a pipe. The bass is slow and minimal, and so is the drumming, and the guitar is also minimal. The instruments continue after the vocals sre sung low, slow and pehaps restrained and finally end in a synth wave which goes up then completly stops with a sound effect ending it proper.

This is a great album and if Napster had the Warsaw Album I would review that, but I will do Closer in the future perhaps today or tomorrow. I give this 5/5, but there is one thing that isn't really much of a problem but it can be in a few places, the guitars are often too quiet but that just adds to the sound of Joy Division.

Track List
Disorder.......3:32
Day of the Lords.......4:50
Candidate.......3:05
Insight.......4:29
New Dawn Fades.......4:48
She's Lost Control.......3:57
Shadowplay.......3:56
Wilderness.......2:39
Interzone.......2:16
I Remember Nothing.......5:56

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

She's Lost Control


I Remember Nothing (not good quality)


Shadowplay


Disorder


Day of the Lords (not good quality)


New Dawn Fades (better quality but not good visuals and might not be the whole song)


Wilderness (not good quality)


Insight (Peel Session good quality)


Interzone (Joy Division version)


Interzone (Warsaw version)


Candidate

Wow all the songs

[God]

Good review. 'Unknown Pleasures' is easily one of the best albums ever.

[bomberboy]

Thanks what band are you reviewing next. I'm doing JD's next album Closer.

[God]

Reverend Bizarre's 'In the Rectory of the Bizarre Reverend'.

I don't really know if I prefer 'Closer' or 'Unknown Pleasures', they're both incredible.

[bomberboy]

Reverend Bizarre's 'In the Rectory of the Bizarre Reverend'.

I don't really know if I prefer 'Closer' or 'Unknown Pleasures', they're both incredible.

Well if your more into the dance side of things, then you'll probably like Closer more. If you like rock or punk more, then Unknown Pleasures would be the one for you, if you like both then you'll like all of the albums. But I think Closer is better because, the guitars aren't as drowned out and the band have improved and used keyboards more and better than any other I've heard only on par with New Order. Oh and I saw the review liked that band. I was surprised there were only three of them.

[bomberboy]

Joy Division-Closer
Post-Punk

Closer Joy Divisions last album together as a group. The rest over the years would be collections of unreleased material and newly descovered bootlegs and rehersal recordings. But this is the best album.

The band have definatly improved over the course of two years following the release of Unknown Pleasures. The recording is very different, it is almost like an explosion of sound. Atrocity Exhibition is exactly like that explosion its sounds have sound effects coming in and out, and the guitar is sharp and quick and sounds like its being scraped. The bass lets out short lines and it is the next dominant instrument, apart from the drums who sound like bongos and congos in a way. The drumming, the guitar, and bass work are great, and so are the vocals. Ian Curtis lets them out in his deep baritone voice like Unknown Pleasures, but is hard to tell what his singing is like. The next song Isolation is almost like a dance song, it could be! Its synths a danceable and are a cross between a stringed instrument, crossed with a video game sound track but used and produced brilliantly. The bass gives its self its own dance like ryhthmn. The drums let out a sort of industrial beat, with the aid of a drum machine. It sounds like a drum being scratched, the end is like a CD missing a part of music jumping to a different bit. The third song Passover, also sounds dance like, but its guitar driven with what I appear to have heard a synthesizer in it. The guitar echoes, and that is what makes it sound like a dance tune even more. The drums lay down yet another dance like ryhthmn, and is aided by a sound that is like synthesizer, maybe it is. The bass is almost funky and post-punk, making it also sound dance like as well. The whole song sounds like a dance tune, and the guitar continues its echo like droningv and it sounds again almost scratched. The fourth song Colony, continues its bass and drum ryhthmn being used like dance instruments but the guitar is like a cross between dance and post-punkv just like New Order. The vocals on this, sound like they are shouting and are scared, sometimes they calm down but still scared. Passover's vocal style in it is part ethreal and normal. A Means to an End for some reason, sounds like some modern bands music (don't know which one), the modern one has obviously copyed. Anyway the the drum sounds a little bit more like dance, the bass is a mix between post-punk and some form of dance, the guitar is also more dance and at one point seems a bit happy when one verse has ended. The Vocals sound slow, and restrained, depressed. At the end it slows down as the guitar sounds like its broken.

Heart and Soul has a dance like bass and drums, and the synths sound like strings, (since they're using an ARP synthesizer) and at one point sound almost like a choir boy, but it is very faint. The guitar is simple, because of Ian not that good on it, but he does a good job making it sound gloomy and dance like at the same time. The synths then begin to sound gloomy, and are higher. Ian sings in a soft terrorising voice, in a way and sounds like a ghost and almost like those children in the horror movies. The whole song is like a gothic kind of music or a horror movie soundtrack. Since the synths, guitar, bass and drums make the song ethreal. Twenty Four Hours, has New Orderesque bass line and a sound effect almost like goats, but it is actualy a guitar and this is probably the heavier of the songs on the album, the guitars are quiet chirping in places and then heavy post-punk in majority of them. The vocals at this point, are growing more depressed and ethreal. The Eternal has a synth line that is a low droning, sounding like stringed instruments, and a piano also makes an appearence and lays out gloomy notes. The bass lays out a slow post-punk/gothic rock like tune and I heard, as if a guitar had a brief appearence. The drumming is like a bag being hit with ones of those drum sticks that look like brushes, it is aided by sound effects that sound like the drum machine they used. The song starts out with that sound effect, and then the bass kicks in and the keyboards and drums start as well, as the gloomy well used vocals come in. Towards the end, a synth part sounds like Procession from New Order. And small tunes and sound effects end it. Decades finally comes in. The etheral song that is sung in a depressing way, probably the most depressing song on the album but there is something about it that doesn't make me feel depressed. The synths sound like an accordian, and then a low droning noise, and a high pitched string like sound come in. The drums are minimal, and are mainly up to the drum machine, by now Stephen has improved on. Bernard has also improved on his guitar and keyboard playing, Peter has improved on his bass and guitar playing (only on Atrocity exhibition) and Ian has improved on his guitar and vocals and perhaps keyboard playing it is known he played it. The synths continue to be gloomy, high and low pitched, at the same time. The bass lays down a low to medium sound, and is like a piston. The drums kick in towards the end, and the synths sound more like strings. This is not like post-punk, more like gothic rock since it sounds scary, gloomy, depressing and told like a horror story. This is a true gothic song, and I believe many gothic bands may have been inspired by this song and others.

This is truly a great piece of art and the instrumentationa and vocals are superb. It is sad ian did not live to see the success of the album if he had lived and managed to get through his depression and control his epilespy who knows where the band might have reached and they may have taken the root New Order took, dance music. 5/5 superb.

Track List
Atrocity Exhibition.......6:06
Isolation.......2:53
Passover.......4:47
Colony.......3:56
A Means To An End.......4:08
Heart and Soul.......5:52
Twenty Four Hours.......4:26
The Eternal.......6:07
Decades.......6:13

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Decades


The Eternal


Twenty Four Hours


Atrocity Exhibition


A Means to an End


Passover


Isolation


Heart and Soul


Colony (not good quality to medium low quality)