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    Track     Duration Listeners
1 The Step 6:09 35,948
2 Hammerhead 5:05 31,840
3 KooKooKa Fuk-U 7:27 28,676
4 Storm the Legion 5:48 27,792
5 There's No Fucking Rules, Dude 8:49 33,701
6 Intensify 6:54 30,832
7 Feel Good Hit of the Fall 5:14 46,126
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Gold Standard Labora (2001) Released: 19 Jun 2001 7 tracks (45:26)
Doesn’t the beginning of “The Step” sound like Pink Floyd’s “Run Like Hell”? Maybe. It does for a tic anyway, before vocalist Nic Offer starts emoting all cool over eight layers of bass, spidery guitar, horns, and drums that wait patiently for the break. And when that break finally arrives, it falls out of the verse like Franzia from silver Mylar. Party time, baby! Let’s keep it going with the bass groove of “Hammerhead,” or “KooKooKa Fuk-U“‘s chattering cool-part-of-town disco. On this, their self-titled debut for Gold Standard Laboratories, !!! trash the axiom that says bands influenced by angular post-punk must be populated by dour misanthropes who sport wallet photos of Ian Curtis. “If you’re looking for a friend/You can kiss my ass!” Offer declares on “KooKooKa Fuk-U,” and encourages suicide for — wait for it — someone else. Speaking of axioms, “There’s No Fucking Rules, Dude” is !!!’s. The cut sounds like the meat of the Clash’s “Straight to Hell” mixed with Queen’s “Another One Bites the Dust” and dropped on to an indie rock bun; it makes a tasty sandwich for Radio 4 fans. Highly recommended.
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  • CthulhuMessiah

    Not a shitty album at all. But a bit weak compared to their later stuff.

    October 2010

  • Garrettcore

    lol thats funny, this is my favorite album out of all of them.

    May 2009

  • sebastian-g

    i'm really shocked so people think this record is terrible. it's a lot more synth focused than the majority of their material, but i really enjoy it.

    March 2009

  • SauzerOCR

    lol @ the people below with the shit taste

    March 2009

  • TheFu11m00n

    I love this band, but this cd is sooooooooooooooooo bad... Its like they got all the bad stuff out on this one and then put all the good stuff on the other two LPs. I've tried listening to it over and over, and I always get a headache-

    February 2009

  • OndraLasak

    their worst release by far (all singles and eps included)

    February 2008

  • Skizophrenia

    first album of all

    December 2007

  • posthumanson

    shit's good.

    July 2007
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