Product Description

Self-titled debut album from Leicester born quartet Kasabian. With their mix of rock guitars and dance beats, the band have been compared to the likes of Primal Scream, The CooperTemple Clause and Happy Mondays. The singles 'Processed Beats' and 'LSF' are included.

Track Listing

1. Club Foot
2. Processed Beats
3. Reason is Treason
4. ID
5. Orange (Interlude)
6. LSF (Lost Souls Forever)
7. Running Battle
8. Test Transmission
9. Pinch Roller (Interlude)
10. Cutt Off
11. Butcher Blues
12. Ovary Stripe
13. U Boat

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3345 in Music
• Released on: 2004-09-06
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Content/Copy-Protected CD

Amazon.co.uk Review
While it's true that the self-titled debut from Kasabian doesn't sound particularly original, that's hardly the point. They can be forgiven because they do it so well. Their influences are obvious throughout Kasabian: "Processed Beats" is the Stone Roses song that never was, while "Reason is Treason" could have driven straight off of Primal Scream's Vanishing Point. Self-professed fans of the afore-mentioned bands, as well as DJ Shadow and Neu!, Kasabian are clearly not afraid of a little electronic knob-twiddling. The result is an album that harkens back to the baggy days of the late 1980s and early 90s, seamlessly switching between bass-heavy anthems ("Club Foot") and blissed-out tracks ("I.D."). And if they occasionally sound a bit like EMF, well, that's no bad thing--it's just proof that they know a thing or two about writing a catchy tune. Kasabian are by no means the first band to merge indie rock with dance floor beats, but they are easily one of the best. --Robert Burrow

Album Description
Honest and real, arrogant and naïve, Kasabian are four lads making music with total disregard for anything else going on and are sure to be the next big thing. Their contemporaries in attitude if not musical style are bands like The Coral and SFA. And in singer Tom and songwriter Serge, Kasabian have not one but two charismatic front men. This, their debut album features the hits "Club Foot" and "L.S.F (Lost Souls Forever)", plus new versions of the limited releases "Processed Beats" and "Reason Is Treason". Produced by Kasabian, mixed by Jim Abiss (The Music, Unkle, DJ Shadow).

Customer Reviews

STOP THIS VILE FILTH!
I was outraged - simply outraged - to discover that this band were named after Linda Kasabian, one of the murderers of Sharon Tate, and member of the Manson family. How dare these northern tykes pay tribute to someone of her monstrous calibre? They should be ashamed of themselves, and their parents, and their parents' parents.

I ask you, what is next? I bet some band will even name themselves 'Manson', and I also bet they'll be so uneducated that they can't even spell the word. Give me clean, wholesome bands like the Beach Boys any day, especially that delightful 20/20 album.

Arguably one of the greatest Indie/Rock albums this Century
I don't really know how to start with Kasabian. A brilliant, swaggering but also articulate band. They do however have a self destruct button (see the shocking follow up album). Their debut luckily does see them at their absolute best.

Starting with the stomping, dark, amazing Club Foot, you know you're not listening to Razorlight or Kaiser Chiefs (insert terrible mediocre pop band here)now. And the first 5 tracks are as good a start to an album that you will find anywhere. Processed Beats has a cool "madchester-ish" vibe going on, maybe even Primal Scream esque if you will. While "Reason is Treason" is more your typical live rocker which pumps up the tempo. Then comes "ID", my favourite track on the album.Fantastic almost dance-like sound effects accompany a lazy but perfect vocal, with Tom stating "No one else gets high" with nice applomb.

The anthem "LSF" comes next, a true festival song if ever there was one. A monster which although is nowhere near as big as it should be on the album, still packs a punch.

The second half of the album sees a slight drop in quality, but nothing much. "Ovary Stripe" is one of the best instrumentals in a long long while "Test Transmission" is the albums first song on the album which i would class as "feel good" and "Cut Off" is another strong single.

Also the album has a bonus track at the end of the last track which is like a remix of "Reason is Treason", it's genius, featured on "Gran Turisimo 4" (i think) it's easily as good as it's "proper" version.

Kasbabian isn't "Definitely Maybe II" or "Stone Roses II", none of them albums focussed at all on special effects and were more guitar orientated in their brilliance. The nearest i can see Kasabian to are "Primal Scream", but heavier.

Their sound on this record is actually quite unique, compared to the mess that was their follow up album, here's to hoping that the 3rd album is more of this.

Not the only band to have influences...
I've read a great deal of reviews of this album now, and am amazed that so many people keep refering to their obvious musical influences as a sign of "derivativeness".
Other bands are influenced by great past groups, but never before have I read such scorn about it aimed at one band.

ALL bands are influenced by what has gone before (it's impossible not to be), and it's up to music lovers to be un-biased and open minded when hearing something new.

Comparisons to Oasis-wether they be good or bad-are completely un warranted, as Oasis made simple, poorly sung, rhyming dictionary pop durge, which blatantly and self-conciously slammed home it's "We're working class heroes" message with pathetic cliches and Harvey Smith salutes to camera. How embarrasing, and how I hope people have moved on.

Kasabian's first album has energy and exitement on a level that few bands can boast of in a debut, and as a working class kid who grew up having cassettes of over-earnest young whining lent to her by friends, claiming to have heard a band destined to be "Huge!!!", I for one cannot hear what is "patronising" about Kasabian's lyrics, as some have claimed, (or perhaps I'm just not as weak and easily influenced by what I hear as some others are).

Comments about the standard of the vocals on the album are also, frankly ridiculous.
I'm sure we all could come up with a list of famous frontmen and women, who don't have what could be considered "wonderfull" signing voices. It's not always vital for a rock band, for it's singer to have an excellent voice, and indeed some of the greatest bands didn't have expertly trained vocalists.
(Can anyone honestly say, hand on heart, that Steve Tyler or Mick Jagger were always note perfect?...no, but they were both excellent frontmen, and were perfect for the style of music their bands made, or still make as the case may be. This is not in any way a direct comparison between Kasabian, The Stones and Aerosmith-both of which I also love- by the way, simply an example of the inacuracy of the comments made about the vocal talent of Kasabian's frontman.)

Not all music needs to be negatively moving or profound to be worthwhile (although I need depth and emotion in my music too, when the time is right for it), sometimes you just want to be entertained. And if you take Kasabian for what they are; a band who like to make music to make you dance and enjoy yourself, then they have clearly done just that. After all, who said they had a pompus message to tell, or a working-class cause?
I for one have never heard them talking about themselves or their music in the pretentious way some claim they have (and the way other far more un-deservedly popular bands have). They are also fantastic live, their gigs full of the kind of electric atmosphere that few bands today can replicate.

All in all, it's an impressive first album, and unlike many first albums by new people, has the ability to get you realy exited, or just in the mood for a good night out.

And there's nothing wrong with that.