Napalm Death-post 1989: S/D and, yes, C/D?

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I've just recently acquired Leaders Not Followers and Noise for Music's Sake and realised perhaps I shouldn't have given up on them after Bill Steer and Lee Dorrian quit following the Mentally Murdered EP. I had been cynical about the considerably more 'metal' direction they were going, but it seems I was dead wrong!
So, which are the best songs/albums, how do the two periods of the band compare (well, I suppose way more than two given the number of line-up changes) and who considers them classic or, indeed, dud?

― M Carty (mj_c), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 06:52 (nineteen years ago) link

You Suffer But Why-Classic!!

― brg30 (brg30), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 07:28 (nineteen years ago) link

pre-89, though!

― M Carty (mj_c), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 07:33 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm not an expert on Napalm Death (though Scum is one of my favorites), but I really like Fear, Emptiness, Despair.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 07:50 (nineteen years ago) link

I stand by what I said here.

― Phil Freeman (Phil Freeman), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 10:49 (nineteen years ago) link

two months pass...

one of the best ten british bands ever deserve more than such a paltry thread. um so here is my napalm death "POX":

the missing link
mentally murdered (single vers)
unchallenged hate
scum
suffer the children
the world keeps turning
breed to breathe
abbatoir
the infiltraitor
NPFO

i am insanely excited about the new album.

― fletcher dexter, Thursday, 26 August 2004 21:34 (nineteen years ago) link

what are the other nine best british bands?

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 26 August 2004 21:43 (nineteen years ago) link

Painkiller
Scorn
Lull
Carcass
Sore Throat
Cathedral
Godflesh
God
Final

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 26 August 2004 21:44 (nineteen years ago) link

Or not.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 26 August 2004 21:44 (nineteen years ago) link

the smiths
the fall
the jesus and mary chain
the buzzcocks
the undertones
the pop group
the field mice
the shop assistants
the clash
and yes, carcass

― fletcher dexter, Thursday, 26 August 2004 21:52 (nineteen years ago) link

sorry, that's 10. but you know what i mean.

― fletcher dexter, Thursday, 26 August 2004 21:52 (nineteen years ago) link

dooooood, shop assistants & carcass in yer top 10!!! You are my new best friend. we'll just replace napalm death with the clash and THEN you've got ten.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 26 August 2004 21:54 (nineteen years ago) link

Hey wait, they're not called "THE Napalm Death," you can't actually like them.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 26 August 2004 21:54 (nineteen years ago) link

Though "The Carcass" sounds great, they should open for the Gathering.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 26 August 2004 21:55 (nineteen years ago) link

thanks mate. that was a kind of off the top of my head top 10, but it's fairly representative.

um, anyway. napalm death. i can't think of any other uk band that has been so good for so long.

xpost

― fletcher dexter, Thursday, 26 August 2004 21:56 (nineteen years ago) link

do you like anathema? or my dying bride?

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 26 August 2004 21:57 (nineteen years ago) link

(Yeah, all seriousness Fletcher, you sound a good sort. Except for that Clash thing. ;-))

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 26 August 2004 21:58 (nineteen years ago) link

i know 0 about either, sorry. but i am very willing to learn. do they sound like the shop assistants or carcass ?

xpost again - damn that raggett

― fletcher dexter, Thursday, 26 August 2004 21:59 (nineteen years ago) link

um, my dying bride are beautiful doom metal and anathema were doom metal but now they make beautiful prog/space rock and they have both been making good records for 10 years or more. and they are both from the u.k.

also, check out ned's fave band Porcupine Tree. who i was listening to today.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 26 August 2004 22:02 (nineteen years ago) link

ok cool! am going to bed now but will check them out. goodnight all

― fletcher dexter, Thursday, 26 August 2004 22:05 (nineteen years ago) link

Anathema sound like Elbow now. Very odd

― DJ Mencap0))), Friday, 27 August 2004 08:08 (nineteen years ago) link

ten years pass...

god this fuckin new one is so goddamn good.

― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 02:05 (nine years ago) link

it really really is, so stoked to see them w/ Voivod & co. next week

― Simon H., Wednesday, 28 January 2015 02:07 (nine years ago) link

I'm there right now

― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 23:14 (nine years ago) link

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