Godfodder
| God Fodder | ||||
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| Studio album by Ned's Atomic Dustbin | ||||
| Released | 1 April 1991 | |||
| Recorded | December 1990–January 1991 | |||
| Studio | Greenhouse Studios, London | |||
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| Length | 40:42 | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
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| Ned's Atomic Dustbin chronology | ||||
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| Trouser Press | (favourable) |
God Fodder is the first full-length album by British rock band Ned's Atomic Dustbin. It was released in 1991. After creating their own Sony Records imprint in 1990 after a success of independent singles, the band recorded God Fodder in late 1990 and early 1991 in London. The album takes large influence from grebo, shoegaze, noise pop and dance music, and is characterized by its noisy guitars, complex drum beats and usage of two bass players, with Matt Cheslin playing regular bass lines and Alex Griffin playing harmonic bass lines. Lyrically, the album features communal efforts written by all the band.
Five different singles were released from the album across different regions. Upon its release, the album was a critical and commercial success. It reached number 4 in the UK Albums Chart and also found an audience in the United States, where the album reached number 91 on the Billboard 200, largely due to the band's T-shirt campaign and the video for "Grey Cell Green", which was popular. The record's success is said to be a triumph against the dominance of grunge music at the time. The album was named among the year's best albums by several magazines. The band played the album in its entirety for the first time in O2 Shepherds Bush Empire in December 2009 and played it again in Birmingham in September 2010.
Ned's Atomic Dustbin formed in Stourbridge in 1987. Although the band had started out as a gothic rock band, the band "had developed a dense, assaultive sound" by the early 1990s "that was distinguished by their thundering two-bass attack." After releasing The Ingredients EP, the band's official first single, "Kill Your Television", which later featured on God Fodder, was a commercial success, reaching number 53 on the UK Singles Chart and number one on the UK Independent Singles Chart and becoming critically acclaimed; furthermore, it heralded the band's new grebo sound which they would fully explore on God Fodder. The success of the single lead to the band signing to Sony Music, on the grounds that the band would be allowed to release their music through their own label, Furtive, in order to retain a higher degree of creative control whilst concurrently enjoying the benefits of Sony's major label distribution and advertising clout.
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