''Thunder and Consolation'' is the fourth
studio album by English rock band
New Model Army, released on 15 March 1989 by
EMI Records. The album stands as a landmark in the New Model Army catalogue, being their most successful album to date and reaching No. 20 in the
UK Albums Chart
The Official Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales and (from March 2015) audio streaming in the United Kingdom. It was published for the first time on 22 July 1956 and is compiled every week by the Official Charts ...
. It also saw the band gaining new musical grounds as they adopted a more
folky sound with the assistance of violinist Ed Alleyne-Johnson. It was produced by
Tom Dowd
Thomas John Dowd (October 20, 1925 – October 27, 2002) was an American recording engineer and producer for Atlantic Records. He was credited with innovating the multitrack recording method. Dowd worked on a veritable "who's who" of recording ...
and the band.
This was also the last studio album on which
Jason 'Moose' Harris played bass. He was subsequently replaced by Nelson on the band's next studio album, ''
Impurity'' (1990).
The title of the album was taken from 17th century British
Quaker,
Edward Burrough, whose collected works, which were posthumously released in 1663, were entitled ''The Memorable Works of a Son of Thunder and Consolation''.
Versions
The album was originally released as a 10-track
LP and
cassette
Cassette may refer to:
Technology
* Cassette tape (or ''musicassette'', ''audio cassette'', ''cassette tape'', or ''tape''), a worldwide standard for analog audio recording and playback
** Cassette single (or "Cassingle"), a music single in th ...
in 1989 containing the tracks "I Love the World", "Stupid Questions", "225", "Inheritance", "Green and Grey", "Ballad of Bodmin Pill", "Family", "Family Life", "Vagabonds" and "Archway Towers". The cassette had an extra track, "125 MPH".
The CD version of the album was released at the same time with the extra tracks "The Charge", "Chinese Whispers" and "White Coats", which were taken from the ''New Model Army''
EP (1987), and the track "Nothing Touches", which was the
B-side of the single "Stupid Questions" (1989).
In 2005 the album was
remastered and
reissued with the original LP tracks on one disc and including an extra disc containing the original CD's extra tracks along with rarities, B-sides and live tracks.
Track listing
''Timings taken from original CD release''
Disc one
#"I Love the World" (
Justin Sullivan
Justin Edward Sullivan (born 8 April 1956) is an English singer, songwriter and musician. He is also the lead vocalist, guitarist and principal songwriter of English rock band New Model Army, which he formed in 1980 together with drummer Robert ...
,
Robert Heaton
Robert Charles Heaton (6 July 1961 – 4 November 2004) was an English musician best known as the drummer in the English rock band New Model Army. Besides being the drummer for the band Heaton was also responsible for much of the band's son ...
) – 5:08
#"Stupid Questions" (Sullivan) – 3:26
#"225" (Sullivan, Heaton) – 4:47
#"Inheritance" (Sullivan, Heaton) – 3:23
#"Green and Grey" (Sullivan, Heaton) – 5:47
#"Ballad of Bodmin Pill" (Sullivan, Heaton) – 4:47
#"Family" (Sullivan, Heaton) – 4:01
#"Family Life" (Sullivan) – 3:00
#"Vagabonds" (Sullivan) – 5:21
#"Archway Towers" (Sullivan, Heaton) – 4:54
Disc two
#"White Coats" (Sullivan, Heaton,
Jason Harris) – 4:17
#"The Charge" (Sullivan, Heaton) – 3:25
#"Chinese Whispers" (Sullivan, Heaton) – 3:31
#"Nothing Touches" (Sullivan) – 4:10
#"
Mermaid Song" (traditional) – 1:23
#"Adrenalin" (electric version) (Sullivan) – 4:26
#"Deadeye" (Sullivan) – 4:52
#"Higher Wall" (Sullivan, Harris) – 4:23
#"125 MPH" (Sullivan, Heaton, Harris) – 3:56
#"I Love the World" (live) (Sullivan, Heaton) – 5:18
#"Green and Grey" (live) (Sullivan, Heaton) – 5:34
#"Archway Towers" (live) (Sullivan, Heaton) – 4:42
#"Vagabonds" (live) (Sullivan) – 4:55
#"225" (live) (Sullivan, Heaton) – 4:03
Personnel
Production
*
New Model Army – producer
*
Tom Dowd
Thomas John Dowd (October 20, 1925 – October 27, 2002) was an American recording engineer and producer for Atlantic Records. He was credited with innovating the multitrack recording method. Dowd worked on a veritable "who's who" of recording ...
– producer ("Stupid Questions", "Green and Grey", "Ballad of Bodmin Pill", "Family", "Vagabonds", "Archway Towers"),
mixed by ("Inheritance")
*
Andy Wallace – mixed by ("I Love the World", "Ballad of Bodmin Pill", "Family", "Family Life", "Archway Towers", "125 MPH")
*
Jon Kelly
Jon Kelly is a British audio engineer and record producer, who began his career as an engineer at Air London Studios. He has produced albums and singles for Chris Rea, the Damned, Kate Bush (where he co-produced with Bush on her third album ...
– mixed by ("Stupid Questions", "225", "Green and Grey", "Vagabonds")
*
Justin Sullivan
Justin Edward Sullivan (born 8 April 1956) is an English singer, songwriter and musician. He is also the lead vocalist, guitarist and principal songwriter of English rock band New Model Army, which he formed in 1980 together with drummer Robert ...
– mixed by ("225")
*
Robert Heaton
Robert Charles Heaton (6 July 1961 – 4 November 2004) was an English musician best known as the drummer in the English rock band New Model Army. Besides being the drummer for the band Heaton was also responsible for much of the band's son ...
– mixed by ("225")
Musicians
*
Justin Sullivan
Justin Edward Sullivan (born 8 April 1956) is an English singer, songwriter and musician. He is also the lead vocalist, guitarist and principal songwriter of English rock band New Model Army, which he formed in 1980 together with drummer Robert ...
– vocals, guitar, keyboards
*
Robert Heaton
Robert Charles Heaton (6 July 1961 – 4 November 2004) was an English musician best known as the drummer in the English rock band New Model Army. Besides being the drummer for the band Heaton was also responsible for much of the band's son ...
– drums, backing vocals, guitar, bass
*
Moose Harris
Moose Harris is a British Bassist, bass guitarist, who was known as Jason James Harris until June 2001, when he legally changed his name to reflect his former nickname and adopted professional alias of "Moose".
Biography
Although born in Devi ...
– bass, keyboards, guitar
*
Ed Alleyne-Johnson – violin
References
External links
*
{{DEFAULTSORT:Thunder And Consolation
New Model Army (band) albums
1989 albums
Albums produced by Tom Dowd
EMI Records albums