Mind Bomb

  • Artist: THE THE
  • Year: 1989
  • Format: Download
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Mind Bomb is the third studio album by THE THE, released by Some Bizarre/Epic on 11 July 1989 and recorded between October 1988 and May 1989.  Mind Bomb features the following tracks:

  1. Armageddon Days (are here again)
  2. The Violence of Truth
  3. Kingdom of Rain
  4. The Beat(en) Generation
  5. August & September
  6. Gravitate to Me
  7. Beyond Love

Mind Bomb is available as an mp3 download through iTunes and Amazon Music.  If you would like to purchase the Mind Bomb CD you can do so here.

“An album of furious energy and frustrated urgency. Consider a revision of T.S. Eliot’s The Wasteland set in Margaret Thatcher’s Britain to a pulsating back beat. ”
– TIME MAGAZINE

“The songs on Mind Bomb have a do-or-die urgency. Matt Johnson is a committed writer with something to say.”
– THE NEW YORK TIMES

“‘Beyond Love’ is Johnson’s most beautiful song ever.”
– ROLLING STONE ****

“Uniquely optimistic yet tortured and anguished, Mind Bomb is THE THE’s most impressive work to date. A meld of bitter images and desperate hopes focusing on the individual conflicts and politics of a troubled world.”
– THE DAILY TELEGRAPH

“A distinctly personal mix of rock and roll, political persuasion, and psychic examination.”
– THE GUARDIAN

Mind Bomb could easily be THE THE’s Astral Weeks. A magnificent album, full of vital energy.”
– MELODY MAKER

“He set out, explicitly, to blow the listener’s mind. Perhaps what he effected was more of a scorched earth campaign. When it’s over and you find yourself staring at the smoking rubble, your principal emotions are liable to be shock and awe.”
-THE QUIETUS

“THE THE stretch their sound past the edge of madness it already inhabits.”
– NME

“An enthralling album. The most complete THE THE record to date.”
– SOUNDS

“Matt Johnson is back. May all his Gods go with you.”
– BLITZ

“His most accomplished songwriting to date. Some of the most invigorating music to emerge in the late ’80s.
– VOLUME

“Through four albums and most of the 1980’s Matt Johnson and his band have chronicled the ecstasies of agony with unflinching detail. This is a fierce work.”
– BOSTON PHOENIX

“The album is an absolute stunner and confirms Matt Johnson’s position as one of the best songwriters in the country.”
– TOP

“Blending dense, tightly-wound music with anguished song writing, Mind Bomb is an eloquent statement of rage. Play it very loud, very late and very alone.”
– BOSTON GLOBE

“Lush, groovy, provocative and disturbing.”
– THE WASHINGTON TIMES

“Johnson is still thinking, trying to get things done, contributing his fraction to make the world a saner place.”
– LA WEEKLY

“Welcome to a brain threatening LP that is sure to upset, and sure to offend. Mind Bomb defies the charts and hearts of rock circa ‘89. It is an explosive record and a welcome change of intellectual pace. Rock records just don’t come any better. ”
– ATLANTIC CITY DAILY

“THE THE make powerful brooding music that grapples with the big questions. Mind Bomb is an eloquent rant against organised religion.”
– THE VANCOUVER SUN

“Johnson’s music and words are not for the faint-hearted or feeble-minded. Mind Bomb is an unflinching look at the collective soul with all the lushness and intensity of Infected, but simpler, less dense and more spiritual.”
– CASHBOX