A classic Album from one of our greatest Bands...
If you have never heard them before buy this album as it isa good starting point for any listener. This is without a doubt one of X's best. I listen to this at work and it helps the day move along.
great thought
it has some amazing unforgetable tracks that grab you the first time you hear it. very very good.
Ditto
Not a huge fan of this band like some of the others here, but "More Fun in the New World" is one of the great punk albums of the eighties, chock full of songs that hold up to scrutiny. The facts we hate: everybody's got something to hide except ___ and his ______. It's worth getting for the track "I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts" alone, which best showcases Exene Cervenka and John Doe's vocal interplay. In case you don't have Windows Media or RealPlayer, here's a sample of the lyrics, just imagine them singing:
'Walking down the road, everybody yelling "Hurry up!" "Hurry up!" But I'm waiting for you, I must go slow. I must not think bad thoughts. When is this world coming to? Both sides are right but both sides murder. I give up; why can't they? I must not think bad thoughts. The civil wars and the uncivilized wars. Conflagrations leap out of every poor furnace. The food cooks poorly and everyone goes hungry. From then on it's dog eat dog, dog eat body, and body eat dog. I can't go down there. I can't understand it. "
And so on and so forth.
Not only one of X's greatest albums, one of the greatest albums ever!
However, that never really bothered me. I know that a lot of X fans are upset that this truly legendary band never got the commercial success that they truly deserved. Because after all of these flash in the pan and flavor of the week groups are dead and gone, their music will be as well. However, X's music will live forever. Which is what is so remarkable about this band. Some twenty years later, their music is so contemporary, it does not sound dated at all (well maybe one their albums does). I guess the two biggest hits off this great album are "Poor Girl" and "Breathless. " However, every cut is great, from the start to finish, each track is blistering and fresh. Los Angeles legends, just like their first and best producer.
X's Best!
This is truly X's last great album. I've had "Los Angeles" and "Wild Gift" for quite some time now, for some strange reason I always thought I wouldn't like any other X album, I was wrong, "More Fun in the new world" along with "Under the big black sun" are by far my favorite X albums,
I remember hearing all of these songs when they came out, when I was a kid, because I dad is a huge X fan, but I never realized just how good they were.
I have to agree with the review that says this is one of the best album sides in rock history, the first 7 songs are amazing. my personal favorites are "We're having much more fun", and "Poor girl", those 2 songs make the album worth buying alone, they really show how much X had grown as songwriters, "The New World", "True Love", "Make the Music go Bang" and their cover of "Breathless" are also amazing songs, and "I must not think bad thoughts" is totally different from what X usually does but its a really cool song. The first 7 songs are so good, I can't see how this album didn't go multi-platinum.
The rest of the album is good, its just not as good as the first half, "Devil Doll", "Painting the town blue", and "I see red" are all great songs, if you like X you won't be disapointed, "Drunk in my past" is one of my favorites on the album, "Hot House" is an alright song, its worth listening to, its just not up to par with the rest of the album, and the only track I don't like is "True Love pt. 2", for some reason it just doesn't vibe with me, maybe its the Doobie brothers like intro, but I think the song just drags, luckily its the last song on the album.
John Doe, Exene, Billy Zoom and D. J. Bonebreak all shine on this album and I like this album (along with "Under the big black sun") probably more than "Los Angeles". I would highly recomend this or any of the first 4 X albums for that matter, to anybody who apreciates good rock music.
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