CD reissue Free Love Records 2009 with bonus tracks
"During the days that Melody Maker liked to call 'arsequake', World Domination Enterprises were never far from the spotlight, but their star seemed to fade quickly with the passing of time. Nowadays Keith Dobson is better known for his time with hippie-punk straddlers Here And Now, his Fuck Off Records label, Street Level Studios and his previous band The 012, who released an album on Flicknife called Let's Get Professional. World Domination Enterprices formed in 1985, the parody of their name carried through on press releases and other publicity gimmicks designed to publicise the band and the issues that interested them. Their debut signle was the environmental protest Asbestos Lead Asbestos. The played this live, busker fashion, in The City business district in London. They went on to release several singles and two LPs before splitting circa 1990".
(angelfire.com)
"The disturbing noise/chaos level achieved by this angular Ladbroke Grove (London) trio - formed by singer/guitarist Keith Dobson after the dissolution of his previous band, 012 - is indeed something marvelous. The astonishing high-pressure racket of Let's Play Domination's opening salvo (Message for You People) may send you rushing to the turntable to see if your stylus is accidentally gouging a hole in the platter. Besides sturdily unsettling originals, the album - clearly a stiff-upper-lip cousin to Big Black, Birthday Party and other punishing pain-inflicters - includes a relatively straight rendition of L.L. Cool J's I Can't Live Without My Radio as well as deranged interpretations of Lipps, Inc.'s Funkytown and a U-Roy number. As Dobson layers on the scathing, slithery guitar and sings in a plain, serviceable voice, the rhythm section lurches and pounds in a tight phalanx; producer Dave Allen captures the entire meltdown with thrilling clarity".
(Ira Robbins, Trouser Press)
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Asbestos Lead Asbestos
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Tracklist:
01 Message For You People
02 Blu Money
03 Trouble Enough
04 I Can't Live Without My Radio
05 Look Out Jack
06 Hotsy Girl
07 Ghetto Queen
08 Asbestos Lead Asbestos
09 That Woman
10 Jah Jah Call You
11 Ragamuffin Man
12 The Bullit Man
13 The Stack Blew Jack
14 Funkytown
bonus tracks:
15 Catalogue Clothes (single a-side)
16 Hotsy Girl (single a-side)
17 Radio (single a-side)
18 The Company News (single a-side)
19 Do Do Go Go (unreleased track)
Thanks as well, been looking for this for a long time. Live they were a truly atomic force there was some real abandon going on in there.
yeeeeees!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
hey there--
thanks so much for filling my request!!!
one thing, though:
is this really the remastered version? i'm curious, as the version of 'asbestos lead asbestos' on the rough trade comp from a few years back sounds quite a bit better than the one here...this sounds at times like a vinyl rip.
thanks again.
@ Karl,
Nowhere does it say that it's been "remastered". And it's definitely not vinyl rip.
It's quite possible that the song you are referring to has been remastered for that rough trade compilation specifically.
..remastered or not thanx anyway,it's far better quality than my ruined vinyl.A unique post.
trisha--
not to be a pedant, but this edition of 'let's play domination' is indeed supposed to be remastered. i'm presuming this is the version that was posted, as it has the same bonus tracks, and it's the edition i specifically requested in the duet emmo comments thread. indeed, it is possible that 'a.l.a.' was remastered separately for that rough trade comp.
i had a crappy, low-bitrate rip of the original cd, and i was after the remaster with the bonus tracks. not a big deal, and i don't want to seem like an ingrate. i have no reason to believe that ex-lion tamer is posting transcodes or vinyl rips unless he says he is, and as i've said before, i love this blog, and everything that is brought to the table here.
all the best,
k.
Hi,
This is indeed a first generation CD rip from the recent self-entitled "analogue remaster" reissue. As far as I know this is the best available source for this album.
I cannot really comment on the differences between this version of "Asbestos Lead Asbestos" and the one included in the Rough Trade compilation since I do not own it...
Take care.
Pretty incredible stuff-I used to have a ratty old cassette of it and I didn't buy the re-issue to bask in superior sound quality,know what I mean?
Do you know what years/albums the guy was in Here&Now? I really liked them in the early eighties,but the only "Keith" I was aware of was their (fantastic)bass player,and it sure wasn't him!!
Oh My God!! I just remembered someone telling me in a drunken stupor at a World Dom gig in Brighton in the v.early 90s that Keith Dobson was in fact Here&Now's legendary drummer Kif-Kif le Batteur!!
He was with them from the late Seventies until about '83 I think.One of the best nights of my life was their Xmas show 1982 with Kif-Kif playing a solo cos the sound was down (to stop us all heckling).That gig,along with hundreds of others,is on the Sugarmegs site for downloading-d'you know about it? The website is:
http://tela.sugarmegs.org/
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