Silent alarm

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Silent alarm
Studio album from Bloc Party

Publication
(s)

  • February 14, 2005 (UK)
  • March 22, 2005 (US)
Label (s) Wichita Recordings

Format (s)

CD, LP

Genre (s)

Indie rock

Title (number)

13

running time

50 min 35 s

occupation
  • Electric guitar: Russel Lissack
  • Electric bass: Gordon Moakes
  • Drums: Matt Tong

production

Paul Epworth , Bloc Party

Studio (s)

chronology
- Silent alarm A Weekend in the City
(2007)
Single releases
October 25, 2004 Helicopter
January 31, 2005 So Here We Are / Positive Tension
April 25, 2005 Banquet
July 18, 2005 Pioneers

Silent Alarm is the debut album by the band Bloc Party . It was released by Wichita Recordings in the spring of 2005 . With Silent Alarm Remixed , a remix album for the album was released that same year .

Track list

  • UK version
  1. Like Eating Glass ( 4:20 )
  2. Helicopter ( 3:40 )
  3. Positive Tension ( 3:54 )
  4. Banquet ( 3:22 )
  5. Blue Light ( 2:47 )
  6. She's Hearing Voices ( 3:29 )
  7. This Modern Love ( 4:25 )
  8. Pioneers ( 3:35 )
  9. Price of Gas ( 4:19 )
  10. So Here We Are ( 3:53 )
  11. Luno ( 3:57 )
  12. Plans ( 4:10 )
  13. Compliments ( 4:40 )
  • US version
  1. Like Eating Glass ( 4:20 )
  2. Helicopter ( 3:40 )
  3. Positive Tension ( 3:54 )
  4. Banquet ( 3:22 )
  5. Blue Light ( 2:47 )
  6. She's Hearing Voices ( 3:29 )
  7. This Modern Love ( 4:25 )
  8. Pioneers ( 3:35 )
  9. Little Thoughts ( 3:30 )
  10. Price of Gas ( 4:19 )
  11. So Here We Are ( 3:53 )
  12. Luno ( 3:57 )
  13. Plans ( 4:10 )
  14. Compliments ( 4:40 )

As singles were "Helicopter" , "So Here We Are / Positive Tension" , "Banquet" and "Pioneers" decoupled; The first single "Helicopter" had already appeared on the EP "Little Thoughts" (2004).

reception

The album received excellent reviews. Plattentests.de awards nine out of ten points and describes it as a “constant journey of discovery” . Allmusic and laut.de awarded four out of five points for the album. At Pitchfork Media it received 8.9 out of 10 points.

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Silent alarm
  DE 93 05/02/2005 (2 weeks)
  AT 52 02/27/2005 (2 weeks)
  CH 80 02/27/2005 (2 weeks)
  UK 3 02/26/2005 (35 weeks)
  US 119 04/09/2005 (16 weeks)
Singles
So Here We Are / Positive Tension
  UK 5 02/12/2005 (4 weeks)
Helicopter
  UK 26th 11/06/2004 (2 weeks)
Banquet
  UK 13 05/07/2005 (3 weeks)
Pioneers
  UK 18th 07/30/2005 (2 weeks)
Two More Years
  UK 7th 10/15/2005 (8 weeks)

use

The song Banquet was featured in the EA game SSX on Tour , This Modern Love in episode 22 of Season 1 of How I Met Your Mother , Helicopter in FIFA 2006 and Colin McRae: Dirt 2, Marc Ecko's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure , Guitar Hero III and Burnout Revenge and the comedy The Yes Sayer used.

Awards

The album was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize and the Shortlist Music Prize in 2005, but without winning either.

The album can also be found in many album leaderboards in various music magazines:

  • # 38 in Albums of the Decade ( NME , 2009)
  • # 55 in 100 Greatest British Albums Of All Time ( NME , 2006)
  • # 88 in 150 records for the ages ( Visions , 2005)
  • # 156 in The Top 200 Albums of the 2000s ( Pitchfork Media , 2009)

In addition, the album made it into numerous annual charts in various music magazines.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Plattentests.de Review
  2. ^ Allmusic Review
  3. ↑ laut.de Review
  4. ^ Pitchfork Media Review
  5. ↑ Charts DE Charts AT Charts CH Charts UK Charts US
  6. ↑ Albums of the Decade (NME)
  7. ↑ 100 Greatest British Albums Ever! (NME)
  8. ↑ Issue 151 (October 2005) - p. 67
  9. ↑ The Top 200 Albums of the 2000s (Pitchfork)
  10. ↑ Overview of annual charts at indiepedia.de