Thunder, Lightning, Strike is the debut album by The Go! Team. It was released on British label Memphis Industries in 2004 and was nominated for the 2005 Mercury Music Prize.
The album was re-released in the U.S. and UK by Columbia Records in October 2005. It was slightly remixed (due to sample clearance issues) and contains bonus tracks. It peaked at #48 in the UK in February 2006, some 18 months after its original release.
The track "Get It Tog...
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Thunder, Lightning, Strike is the debut album by The Go! Team. It was released on British label Memphis Industries in 2004 and was nominated for the 2005 Mercury Music Prize.
The album was re-released in the U.S. and UK by Columbia Records in October 2005. It was slightly remixed (due to sample clearance issues) and contains bonus tracks. It peaked at #48 in the UK in February 2006, some 18 months after its original release.
The track "Get It Together" is the main theme for the 2008 video game LittleBigPlanet.
The music online magazine Pitchfork placed Thunder, Lightning, Strike at number 171 on their list of top 200 albums of the 2000s.
Listening Note: The versions on the U.S. Re-Issue are differ from the original UK releases. Listen to songs like 'Ladyflash' and 'Huddle Formation' and you can hear the vocal performances are very different from each other and the mixing has been redone. This is due to licensing issues on these tracks samples (akin to those on The Avalanches' Frontier...
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