New Model Army - Vengeance: The Independent
Story - Compact Disc
Brand new, never played and still sealed in the factory
plastic seal
Progressive Records
New Model Army had been kicking around nearly four years
before their debut album finally appeared in 1984. How much had
changed since punk had first emerged from the barricades back in
1976. Back then, bands who had formed mere weeks before were
snatched up by major labels, but the punk scene had been reduced to
ashes, and in the bleak post-punk period the labels chased their
own tails in desperate search of the next big thing. And an
unrepentant punk trio certainly wasn't considered "it." Yet, for
those who continued to yearn for the fire and fury of yore, New
Model Army was a rallying cry. Their debut album, Vengeance, was
unapologetic, unreconstructed punk, a savage indictment of
Thatcher's Britain which roared with unabating rage. "Is it a crime
to want something else?/Is it a crime to believe something
different," they demand to know in "Smalltown England," a scathing
look at life in England's ever-more-conservative villages. "A
Liberal Education" decries the loss of paradise and innocence and
alludes to the collapse of the left, the self-destruction of the
punk scene, and most of all the surrender of those who should care.
"How could you be so stupid?," vocalist Slade the Leveller spits
out with a bitterness that burns like bile. "Christian Militia"
derides the rise of the born-agains in the U.S. and would itself be
reborn (with new lyrics) as "Here Comes the War." "Notice Me" is a
pitying sneer at those desperate for attention; "Spirit of the
Falklands" was a belated condemnation of the war fever that swept
Britain a couple of years earlier. New Model Army's targets were
manifold and manifest. However, it was the title track that best
summed up their philosophy: "I believe in justice/I believe in
vengeance/I believe in getting the bastard." And when the trio went
after whatever bastard they had set their sights on, there was
little left but dust when they were done. This reissue of a reissue
adds three remixes of this masterpiece. They're extraneous
— the original still stands as was
— but they do prove that no matter what
indignities you subject it to, "Vengeance" is ferocious enough to
stand up to it. More importantly, like the original reissue, this
album also includes the group's earliest singles: their driving
1983 debut, "Bittersweet"; the searing, ironic "Great
Expectations," released later that same year; and the pounding
desire of "The Price," which appeared in late 1984. The B-sides are
all here as well — a real boon, as none of them
ever appeared on album, while two 12" B-sides are also included,
both taken from their radio session for Radio One DJ John Peel.
Vengeance was one of the most breathtaking punk debuts in history;
the group had plenty of time to get it right. They used that time
well.
Track Listing
Song List 1. Bittersweet
2. Betcha
3. Tension
4. Great Expectations
5. Waiting
6. Christian Militia
7. Notice Me
8. Smalltown England
9. Liberal Education, A
10. Vengeance
11. Sex (The Black Angel)
12. Running In The Rain
13. Spirit Of The Falklands
14. Price, The
15. 1984
16. No Man's Land
17. Great Expectations (The Peel Session)
18. Notice Me (The Peel Session)
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