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The Go! Team

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edited November -1 in General Discussion
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A couple of years ago, I picked up a CD titled "Thunder Lightning Strike" in a little record store on St. Mark's Place in New York City. The cover was orange and yellow, jarring amid its more mildly hued rackfellows. Having never heard of them before and prone to impulse buying, I picked up the CD and took it to the counter. I liked how it caled to be picked up, boisterous.

The CD is was as loud as the cover suggested, with two drummers, a female rapped (named Ninja), playground chants over guitar riffs, loud and full and instrumentals that layer like patchwork blankets into these epic songs that were filled with audio enormity. I always find myself going back to them, thrilled by the task of dissecting their layered songs. It never feels old. They toed the line, risking just sounding like noise. Their courage to push the limits paid off and what emerged was not chaos, but these songs that are perfect examples of how to make music that is loud and fun and asks you to push the limits too.

They just came out with the newest single and video for the song off their upcoming sophomore album "Proof of Youth." The song is Grip Like a Vice[
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6KfJcjrSTM

It yells: "do you want to rock the house and turn this mother out?"

Why yes, I am ready to rock the house.

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  • Unknown
    about all i know of them is that they all dress up in fun things, and they have two drummers


    and they used to play nottingham like every month
  • tune1shadetune1shade
    Ugh I am so jealous. I loved listening to them up in Canada when it was cold and snowy. I would just blast their music and dance around half-naked and singing. I would do it whenever I was alone in the apartment (and sometimes when I wasn't, though my roommates weren't too apprecative).
  • Unknown
    ooo they are from brighton also, meaning by default my friend there probally loves them and has seen them lots also


    they were on top of the pops quite alot in its dieing days
  • sweetnesssweetness
    i havent heard from them in a while, ive only heard a couple songs, i liked bottle rocket. or something like that... yeah.
  • manx9shrinemanx9shrine
    my brother put a bunch of crazy indie type music on my ipod a while ago and he put some of their stuff on and ya they are pretty good
  • fog05tilefog05tile
    i had only heard of them because people would get them confused with ok go. when explaining they are "the guys who dance on treadmills" people often respond "oh the go! team or whoever"

    i think i'll give this go! team a listen
  • jedi_grrliejedi_grrlie
    They're good, I guess.

    These guys are better.

    QUOTE
    "Cheerleader music has been on the rise as of late, and I for one wholeheartedly welcome it. Whether it’s used more as a prop (i.e. Sufjan Stevens’ entire band wearing matching “Illinois” sweaters and shouting cheers to introduce their songs) or as an entire ethos (i.e. The Go! Team), cheerleading in music gives everyone in the crowd the team spirit needed to sustain the band’s energy and help the listener feel like part of the group.

    "Of course, I should clarify that if Sufjan is the sweet, sensitive cheerleader who also takes AP math classes and volunteers at the homeless shelter, and if the Go! Team is the squad that goes to nationals almost every year (and even won once!), then the members of DraculaZombieUSA are the rebellious biker cheerleaders, snorting lines of coke under the bleachers after the game and having unprotected sex at will with unsuspecting members of the chess team."
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