To Each

Great reissue of a post-punk classic on heavy red vinyl, how can you go wrong?

I cant believe Im the first to write about this rekord. It was the height of New Wave, I used to listen to the BBC on a short wave Stromberg Carlson and when I heard this band it just knocked me out. I listen to the bass line and this first album by ACR (which got their name from a ENO song-extra cool points) has it in spades. Fat back beat drumming, echoey guitars, horns, funky bass, other worldly vocals. Clean tight, then you learn about the Manchester sound and the Hacienda and ties to Joy Division and New Order,, it was a lifestyle. Also strongly recommended is their second Lp Sextet which to me was their high water mark. Still holds up well after all these years- the real thing... Cheers

Someone else wrote a review about Winter Hill representing a nuclear war. Here is the truth about Winter Hill. Winter Hill is a real hill near A Certain Ratio's home town of Manchester, England. On top of Winter Hill is a huge television transmitter mast. Close to the transmitter is a small hut full of electrical equipment. This hut makes a droning noise which changes every ten seconds or so between two different notes about 2 semitones apart. The changing drone on the song is not a recording of this hut, and is not the same notes, but it is a musical reminder of the sound the hut makes. How do I know? Because I walked to the top of Winter Hill in approximately 1987, and as soon as I heard the hut, I knew that this was the inspiration for the song. I don't know if the hut is still there, or if it still makes the same noise.The album is definitely worth having for Forced Laugh, Winter Hill and a few others, but there is too much filler to give it 5 stars.

Well, this album and the follow up, Sextet, are absolutely unique in sound, and still fully ahead of their times. Those of who were into this band at the time have never forgotten these albums...horns, latin percussion, funk...there's no describing them. And ...to Each was produced by the infamous Martin Hannett.If you are thinking about buying this album, don't: just buy it.

I originally bought the album sextet by a certain ratio for a dollar because it had a great album cover. When I got it home and dropped the needle, I was a fan forever. It is really to bad that so little of these guys music is available here

Just a fab album from Jez and the crew

Ich habe dieses Album - das 1. "offizielle" von ACR - vor knapp 30 Jahren zum ersten Mal beim älteren Bruder eines Nachbarn gehört und gleich die Schallplatte gekauft. Damals hat es meinen Horizont über die allgegenwärtige NDW hinaus zu Jazz/Rock/Fusion erweitert und ist somit mein persönlicher Meilenstein der Musikgeschichte geworden.Das besondere ist für mich diese Mischung aus dem typischen unterkühlten 80'er Jahre Gesang à la Joy Division, dem Rhytmusgeflecht, dass heutzutage wahrscheinlich unter World Music gelabelt werden könnte und den zum Glück sparsam aber effektvoll eingesetzten Trompeten-Parts, die oft an der Grenze zum nervigen kratzen, diese aber niemals überschreiten.Irgendwann habe ich einer Rezension über ACR die Bezeichnung "Funk-Punk" gelesen. Was soll denn das sein ?Allerdings fällt es auch mir schwer ein besseres Label zu finden.....New Wave-Jazz-Garagensound vielleicht ?Insgesamt sind ACR wohl am ehesten als "funky" zu bezeichnen - aber auf eine ganz eigene Art !Für alle die das Album und die Band nicht kennen - als grober Anhaltspunkt der Musikrichtung muß man sich wohl die frühen Talking Heads mit einem unterkühlten Sänger aus der New Wave Szene vorstellen.....Aber am Besten ist es natürlich Ihr hört selbst rein !Für mich kann ich nur sagen, dass ich froh bin diese ca. 50 Minuten aus meiner eigenen Musikgeschichte jetzt endlich deutlich unter 60 Euro bekommen zu haben.

El disco llegó impecable, la reedición me pareció muy bonita en vinilo color blanco y el servicio de envío fue rápido y eficaz. Gracias

Sono stati tra i primi ad essere messi sotto contratto dalla Factory Records. Stiamo parlando di un disco seminale. Uno dei migliori album degli anni '80. Bello il vinile rosso. Ottimo il suono.