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Introduction |
THIS POISON "magazine " CD Album |
" This Poison! should be lauded as one of the things that
remained great in a decade that was in the main destined for the dustbin.
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Tracks1. Engine Failure |
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"This is probably my favorite release in the Egg Restoration Programme to date - not just because the band was dead brilliant (which they were), but because of the number of previously unreleased tracks on the disc. I have both of the original singles (which was all the band released, apart from a couple of comp tracks) and love them dearly, so when I saw that this disc added an additional ten tracks on top of them... ...well, needless to say I was rather excited. The band's two singles were released on the Wedding Present's Reception Records, which was a match made in heaven. The guitars are ferociously jangly and the bass lines are as fluid as they are trebly. It was clear that This Poison! had precisely the same Postcard influences as the Weddoes. Of the ten extra tracks, seven of them are previously unreleased studio sessions, while the last three are demos - all of which are just as brilliant as the original four songs from the singles. This band certainly deserves to be rescued from obscurity, and let's hope this disc does just that! 14/14 " - Indiepages |
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"pre-C86 cubist pop from Scotland with zippy guitars and Bodines-esque vocals - a brighter Josef K" - Melody Bar |
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"This Poison! as purveyors of delicious, guitar driven indie pop" Read Full Review |
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"Well in a dart back in time, there’s been the sound of young Perth, supplied courtesy of the Egg restoration series. From Perth, Scotland there’s the Magazine 1986 - 1988 set by the very marvellous This Poison! Now I remember how at the time some cruelly passed the band off as Wedding Present copyists, but I always thought that kind of missed the point. Sure, they were signed to the Wedding Present’s Reception label and they played their guitars fast and frantic. Sure their songs were short, sharp sweet blasts of adrenaline rush, but that was a GOOD thing, right? Damn right. And anyway, played again now the most obvious comparison I can think to draw is to their peers The Bodines, with shades of The Close Lobsters lurking in the background. Their two singles, ‘Engine Failure’ and ‘Poised Over The Pause Button’ (featured on the recent Indiepop 1 collection by Rough Trade Shops) were a minute and 38 seconds and two minutes and 38 seconds long respectively, but channelled more youthful exuberance into that time than you would find in a lifetime of House Of Love records (to pluck an example randomly from the air). This CD collects those singles plus another bunch of tracks together to make a 14 cut set that at a shade over a half hour never outstays its welcome. That’s the magic of Pop music for you." - Tangents |
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