Product Description

'Permission To Land' is the debut album by the Suffolk-formed four-piece rock act whose line up includes brothers Justin and Dan Hawkins. Recorded at Chapel Studios in Lincolnshire, the album includes the singles, 'Get Your Hands Off My Woman' and 'Growing On Me'.

Track Listing

1. Black Shuck
2. Get Your Hands Off MY Woman
3. Growing On Me
4. I Believe In A Thing Called Love
5. Love Is Only A Feeling
6. Givin’ Up
7. Stuck In A Rut
8. Friday Night
9. Love on The Rocks With No Ice
10. Holding My Own

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6515 in Music
• Released on: 2003-07-07
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Explicit Lyrics

Amazon.co.uk Review
The Darkness's Permission to Land is an entertaining and unabashed return to the pomp-rock of a bygone age, when mullet-clad dinosaurs travelled the stadiums of the world--back before Nirvana and their lank-haired ilk swept the world in an unstoppable tide of flannel shirts and overwrought earnestness. So, while their peers were drawing inspiration from the Pixies, Sonic Youth and the Stone Roses, the four guys in the Darkness were busy studying their Queen and Def Leppard albums and learning how to rock.

It's this unapologetic rock & roll spirit that makes Permission to Land a stand-out debut album (well, for 2003 at least--sometimes, you've gotta look back in order to move forward). There's no bedsit electronica, acoustic surrealism or garage rock to be found here; instead, this is music as pure entertainment, best suited to a wall of Marshall amps, guitars turned up to 11 and a pyrotechnic display visible from orbit. Singles "I Believe in a Thing Called Love", "Growing on Me" and "Get Your Hands off My Woman" are all typical of what's on offer here: huge guitar riffs, crashing drums and the over-the-top falsetto vocals of singer Justin Hawkins. But they're not the only stand-outs here: "Black Shuck", "Givin' Up" and "Love on the Rocks (with No Ice)" are all anthemic fist-raisers, packed with sing-along choruses and guitarist Dan Hawkins' ultra-infectious hooks. Original? No. Ironic? Maybe. Fun? Oh yes. A lesser band would have approached the spandex-clad rock of Permission to Land with tongues firmly in cheeks, and it's to the Darkness's eternal credit that they manage to inject the whole thing with enough sincerity to carry it off. And why shouldn't they? After all, Bon Jovi always looked like they were having a heck of a lot more fun than Nirvana anyway. --Robert Burrow

Customer Reviews

A legend in their own lunch-time.
If I analyse The Darkness by their Amazon entries;
1. Although their first album is 10.98 new it is being given away (at 1p plus P&P) in the Marketplace.
2. Their second album is little better at 7.96 new or 30p plus P&P.
3. Their so-called "Platinum Collection", which is basically their 2 albums is a bargain bin 4.98.

I've listened to their 2nd album and it sounds like a cross between Queen and Status Quo, with The Chipmunks on lead vocals.

As they ride off into the sunset, like the Lone Ranger, people will say "who were these men"?

Not bad at all...
I was always skeptical of the darkness since they first took the media by storm in 2003. Being a fan of 80s rock music I was amused when a band appeared on the scene with an album that sounded a lot like 80s rock as the genre was dead having been taken over by grunge, rap and indie. The media hyped up this band A LOT becuase they were different from the contemporary bands like Kaiser Chiefs and Stereophonics. (Two bands I HATE by the way). The media thought they would "bring back rock music". They did nothing of the sort and were only hyped because of the novelty of them. So when I saw this record for £1 in a charity shop the same day I write this review, I bought it just to see if the fuss attached to it was worthy and to see if it did the rock music genre justice. I was blown away by the ferocity of the music on this album. Every track is loud and powerful. With catchy riffs, lyrics and solos, this band were 15 years too late. My favourite tracks are "Get your hands off my woman" "I believe in a thing called love" and "Love is only a feeling". The media hype stopped and the fickle public who pushed them to cantre stage started to hate them after this record was released as the novelty had worn off and The Darkness found themselves playing a genre of music that is out of date. So by their next record, their fanbase had dwindled too rock fans only and so The Darkness are currently no more. However they left us this brilliant record to enjoy and play VERY loud.

Permission to Land
What an album! Just buy it. Can't stop playing it. Three weeks in the car now every morning and every evening!