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Cornershop
Released 1995

Trip Easy
02:59
19 plays

Breaking Every Rule Language English
03:17
18 plays

Jason Donovan/Tessa Sanderson
02:32
175 plays

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- 1
- Jason Donovan/Tessa Sanderson
- 02:32
- 175 plays

- 2
- Kalluri's Radio
- 04:14
- 138 plays

- 3
- Readers' Wives
- 03:44
- 145 plays

- 4
- Change
- 01:57
- 133 plays

- 5
- Inside Rani (Long Version)
- 03:22
- 144 plays

- 6
- Born Disco, Died Heavy Metal
- 03:40
- 125 plays

- 7
- Counteraction
- 02:42
- 148 plays

- 8
- Where D'U Get Your Information?
- 03:15
- 132 plays

- 9
- Tera Mera Pyar
- 02:05
- 130 plays

- 10
- You Always Said My Language Would Get Me Into Trouble
- 07:04
- 119 plays

- 11
- England's Dreaming
- 03:36
- 16 plays

- 12
- Trip Easy
- 02:59
- 19 plays

- 13
- Summer Fun in Beat up Datsun
- 01:31
- 12 plays

- 14
- Breaking Every Rule Language English
- 03:17
- 18 plays

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album review

Although Cornershop's first album rings with some of the fevered scrappiness prominent in U.S. indie bands of the early '90s (like Unrest), it's also a throwback to leftist post-punk groups of the late '70s (Gang of Four, Au Pairs). Spiking their songs with social commentary and balancing it out with an infectious sense of playfulness, the spirit and passion overrides the obvious amateurism that the band makes no attempt to hide. They're having fun, they have something to say, they love disco beats just as much as they love atonal shards of guitar and traditional Indian instrumentation. It all makes for a bold, exciting mix, even if it's sloppy and lacking direction every now and then. It also sounded little like anything else released at the time. The American version of the album, released in 1995 on Merge, adds the band's Lock, Stock and Double Barrel EP from 1993. "England's Dreaming," taking its name from Jon Savage's book on punk rock, is one of their strongest songs overall. ~ Andy Kellman, All Music Guide