The Gift of Life

by The Membranes

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  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1985
  • Label: Creation Records
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 49:28
  • Community rating: 3.58/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Emerging from the British underground, the Blackpool outfit delivered a deeply abrasive and angular debut full-length. 'The Gift of Life' revels in dissonant, lo-fi noise rock structures, cementing the band's reputation as uncompromising pioneers of the mid-80s independent punk scene.

Genres

Descriptors: noisy, political, lo-fi, rhythmic, war, guitars, abrasive, male-vocals

Tracklist

  1. Shot By My Own Gun (4:49)
  2. I Am Fish Eye (3:19)
  3. Dreadful Sound Engine (4:19)
  4. Green And Ghostly Land (8:27)
  5. More Skin And Bone (5:30)
  6. Mr. Charisma Brain (3:49)
  7. Barbed Snake Fish Thing (5:17)
  8. Chewing The Fat (3:05)
  9. Typical Male Penis (2:44)
  10. Fireface (1:30)
  11. Gift Of Life (6:39)

Credits

  • Stan - bass, percussion [metal perc, shelf bracket]
  • Coofy Sid - drums, percussion [cowbells, metal percussion]
  • Jon Langford - guitar
  • Mark Tilton - guitar
  • John Robb - guitar, lead vocals, harmonica
  • Nick Brown - violin

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