GROUNDHOGS THANK CHRIST FOR THE BOMB G/FOLD NR MINT LP
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GROUNDHOGS ‘THANK CHRIST FOR THE BOMB’ LBS 83295 BLACK LIBERTY LABEL FIRST PRESS A1 + B1 STAMPER CODES IN TEXTURED GATEFOLD SLEEVE
Sleeve condition: Top corner of spine is bumped with a little damage. Otherwise the sleeve is in a strong Ex condition and free from marking, stickers, writing or defect.
Record condition: An absolute top copy, totally mark free, plays flawlessly. No centring marks on label.
Tracklist
Strange Town
4:16
Darkness Is No Friend
2:43
Soldier
4:51
Thank Christ For The Bomb
7:15
Ship On The Ocean
3:27
Garden
5:10
Status People
3:32
Rich Man, Poor Man
3:25
Eccentric Man
4:53
Thank Christ for the Bomb was the first Groundhogs album to indicate that the group had a lifespan longer than the already-fading British blues boom suggested. It was also the first in the sequence of semi-conceptual masterpieces that the group cut following their decision to abandon the mellow blues of their earlier works and pursue the socially aware, prog-inflected bent that culminated with 1972's seminal Who Will Save the World? album.
They were rewarded with their first ever Top Ten hit and purchasers were rewarded with an album that still packs a visceral punch in and around Tony McPhee's dark, doom-laden lyrics. With the exception of the truly magisterial title track, the nine tracks err on the side of brevity. Only one song, the semi-acoustic "Garden," strays over the five-minute mark, while four more barely touch three-and-one-half minutes.
Yet the overall sense of the album is almost bulldozing, and it is surely no coincidence that, engineering alongside McPhee's self-production, Martin Birch came to the Groundhogs fresh from Deep Purple in Rock and wore that experience firmly on his sleeve. Volume and dynamics aside, there are few points of comparison between the two albums -- if the Groundhogs have any direct kin, it would have to be either the similarly three-piece Budgie or a better-organized Edgar Broughton Band.
But, just as Deep Purple was advancing the cause of heavy rock by proving that you didn't need to be heavy all the time, so Thank Christ for the Bomb shifts between light and dark, introspection and outspokenness, loud and, well, louder. Even the acoustic guitars can make your ears bleed when they feel like it.
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