Track Listing 1. Do You Belive in the Westworld? 2. Judgement Hymn 3. 63 4. Love Is a Ghost 5. Wake, The 6. Conquistador 7. New Trail of Tears, The 8. Freaks 9. Anniversary 10. Klan, The 11. Original Sin 12. Rebel Without a Brain 13. Nero 14. Propaganda (Ministry of Broadcast) 15. Do You Belive in the Westworld - (alternate version)
| Details | | Contributing Artists: | Mick Jones | | Producer: | Mick Jones | | Distributor: | Alliance Entertainment | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes Additional personnel includes: Mick Jones (guitar). Originally released in the U.K. on Burning Rome Records in 1982. First released in the U.S. in 1996. Led by the near-operatic, dramatic voice of Kirk Brandon (who'd just left another good band, the Pack, and would later lead the mediocre Spear of Destiny), Theatre of Hate was one of the first and best post-punk bands in Britain in the late '70s and early '80s, making big, powerful, thumping, brave, tribal-rhythm rock. Like the band's incredible contemporaries Killing Joke, U.K. Decay, Zounds, (early) Siouxsie & the Banshees, the Skids, and (early) the Slits, Theatre of Hate's intellectual edge and relevant sociopolitical lyrics are still amazing, now that many years have passed with few grabbing the torch (aside from a handful of U.K. acts, such as Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, the Wall, and Play Dead). Unfortunately, ToH's one true LP, 1982's Westworld, produced by the Clash's Mick Jones (Sandinista! era; he also plays guitar all over it), is not as consistently brilliant as the singles that preceded it. Westworld is worth hearing, if for no other reason than to encounter a few more jaw-droppers such as the high-holy "Judgment Hymn." ~ Jack Rabid
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