Comments on: Godflesh – Love and Hate reissues

By: Eric Syre

Eric Syre — Mon, 03 May 2010 02:52:23 +0000

Godflsh will always be remembered for its first albums. While the later material surely tried to expand the band’s sonority, it also created a void with it’s core audience who didn’t exactly felt the same interest in breakbeat or dub. I still give those albums a listen (bought this package) but nothing beats ‘Streetcleaner’ for me.

I guess their reunion set at Hellfest will be built around their ‘classic material’.

By: Invisible Oranges

Invisible Oranges — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 16:32:16 +0000

Roeland - These are remastered. See here:

http://askearache.blogspot.com/2009/08/godflesh-re-issues-are-they-remastered.html

By: Roeland

Roeland — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 11:31:30 +0000

So these aren't remastered or anything?

By: Invisible Oranges

Invisible Oranges — Tue, 26 May 2009 16:05:31 +0000

That’s an interesting theory that I would buy.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 26 May 2009 15:59:32 +0000

I love LaHID and Us & Them just as much as their earlier stuff. It often sounds to me like Songs of Love And Hate was just source material that JKB could sample and fuck up for the remix album.

By: Ry Crooder

Ry Crooder — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 17:04:31 +0000

I’ve gotta hear this. I love the claustrophobic mechanized paranoia that they dealt out….and when they weren’t just dealing out claustrophobic mechanized paranoia. Jesu is cool and all, but I don’t think that he necessarily had to have polar opposites relegated to different bands.

As a friend remarked to me, he’s had a bit of difficulty getting some more casual old Godflesh fans to know that it’s him in the new projects….the stickers on the front always say “featuring Justin Broadrick of Godflesh”, hahaa.

By: Matt Vogt

Matt Vogt — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 19:54:17 +0000

I'm amazed so many people see such a variation in the Godflesh albums; to me, there all remarkably consistent. They all have different elements of focus, but the framework they fit into is the same, Streetcleaner to Hymns...

I actually think SoLaH is my favourite of the lot. Driving rockers at the start (Wake, Sterile Prophet), weirdness at the end (Frail, Almost Heaven), and all kinds of cool stuff in between.
Gift from Heaven/Amoral is probably my favourite two-track sequence from Godflesh's discography after Like Rats/Christbait Rising!

Some people seem to have this conception that Godflesh were deliberate innovators in their early work, and thus devalue their later albums. Personally, I never heard them before Selfless, so I never bought into that. I think we just hear the changes in JKB's musical interests over time, resulting in musical surface variations of the underlying Godflesh theme.

Also, I can't understand why so many people get excited over Merciless... I agree with pdf on that one (although I won't go with him on Slugbaiting!).
I think the Messiah EP was more interesting.

By: GEOFF D

GEOFF D — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 01:23:36 +0000

Yeah ok sorry everybody but I actually think Love & Hate was the peak of godflesh. Everything after that was dull really but I honestly can say love and hate is one of my top 5 favourite albums ever

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 07:04:26 +0000

Based on the hate that later day Godflesh albums are getting I’m sure I’ll be completly flamed for saying how much I liked “Hymns”.

By: Helm

Helm — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 13:40:04 +0000

Likewise.