Cornershop / Hold on it Hurts
Artist Cornershop
Album Title: Hold on it Hurts
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Primary Genre Alternative & Punk: Indie
Format CD
Released 01/23/1995
Label Merge Records
Catalog No MRG074
Bar Code No 0 36172 93742 4
Packaging Jewelcase
Tracks
1. Jason Donovan/Tessa Sanderson (2:31)
2. Kalluri's Radio (4:20)
3. Readers' Wives (3:40)
4. Change (1:57)
5. Inside Rani (3:22)
6. Born Disco; Died Heavy Metal (3:40)
7. Counteraction (2:42)
8. Where D'u Get Your Information (3:16)
9. Tera Mera Pyar (2:04)
10. You Always Said My Language Would Get Me Into Trouble (7:07)
11. England's Dreaming (3:36)
12. Trip Easy (2:59)
13. Summer Fun in a Beat Up Datsun (1:31)
14. Breaking Every Rule Language English (3:17)
Date Acquired 05/04/2009
Personal Rating
Acquired from Selldiscs (Amazon)
Purchase Price 9.98

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Review by Andy Kellman
Although Cornershop's first album rings with some of the fevered scrappiness prominent in U.S. indie bands of the early '90s (like Unrest), it's also a throwback to leftist post-punk groups of the late '70s (Gang of Four, Au Pairs). Spiking their songs with social commentary and balancing it out with an infectious sense of playfulness, the spirit and passion overrides the obvious amateurism that the band makes no attempt to hide. They're having fun, they have something to say, they love disco beats just as much as they love atonal shards of guitar and traditional Indian instrumentation. It all makes for a bold, exciting mix, even if it's sloppy and lacking direction every now and then. It also sounded little like anything else released at the time. The American version of the album, released in 1995 on Merge, adds the band's Lock, Stock and Double Barrel EP from 1993. "England's Dreaming," taking its name from Jon Savage's book on punk rock, is one of their strongest songs overall.
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