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Track List
01) Black Shuck
02) Get Your Hands Off My Woman
03) Givin' Up
04) Growing on Me
05) I Believe in a Thing Called Love
06) Love Is Only a Feeling
07) Stuck in a Rut
08) Friday Night
09) Love on the Rock With No Ice
10) Holding My Own
11) Christmas Time (Don't Let the Bells End)
01) Black Shuck
02) Get Your Hands Off My Woman
03) Givin' Up
04) Growing on Me
05) I Believe in a Thing Called Love
06) Love Is Only a Feeling
07) Stuck in a Rut
08) Friday Night
09) Love on the Rock With No Ice
10) Holding My Own
11) Christmas Time (Don't Let the Bells End)
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First Released
2003
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1,300,000 copies
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Permission to Land is the debut studio album by British hard rock band The Darkness, released in the United Kingdom on 7 July 2003 and in the United States on 5 August 2003. The album topped the UK Albums Chart and reached number thirty-six on the American Billboard 200 chart. Four singles were released from Permission to Land: "Get Your Hands off My Woman", "Growing on Me", "I Believe in a Thing Called Love" and "Love Is Only a Feeling"; "I Believe in a Thing Called Love" was the most successful, reaching number two on the UK Singles Chart. In addition to its chart success, Permission to Land also provided The Darkness with two high-profile music awards—Best Rock Album at the 2003 Kerrang! Awards and Best British Album at the 2004 BRIT Awards (at which they also won the awards for Best British Group and Best British Rock Act). Permission to Land was voted 49th in the 50 Greatest Albums of the 21st Century in Kerrang!. Permission to Land was later referenced in the song "Whichever Way You Wanna Give It" by lead singer Justin Hawkins' other band Hot Leg.
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Welcome to The Darkness, a band determined to put entertainment back into rock music. Anyone who has seen the video for their latest single, "Growing on Me", will have at least an inkling of what we're on about. For those who haven't, it goes like this: Flying dinosaur 'mounts' alien spaceship, which gives birth to four eggs, which immediately hatch into four young children dressed as outrageous 70s rock stars. The children climb into a helicopter, but by the time it lands in the grounds of a huge country manor, the boys have transformed into the band.
What follows is an orgy of good old rock 'n' roll excess, as singer Justin Hawkins prances around (in a pink, slashed to the waist catsuit) like a demented Freddie Mercury, with perhaps a bit of Jagger thrown in. Meanwhile the equally rock 'n' roll attired members of the band do their stuff, visiting every heavy rock cliche along the way. As the video ends, Hawkins, still wearing 'that catsuit', plays the song out with the most amazing guitar solo in front of a wall of amplifiers. Pure class.
But then The Darkness are the saviours of heavy rock. And the proof is Permission to Land, their debut album, released on 7th July 2003.
Seventies revival bands aren't anything new - witness current media darlings The Datsuns and The White Stripes - but The Darkness are very, very different. For a start they set out to entertain and go about their business with smiles on their faces, which makes for a refreshing change. Then there's the sheer showmanship of Hawkins, who apparently makes their gigs a whole new experience. This utterly over the top flamboyancy has certainly got the music press going, as many wonder whether The Darkness are another Spinal Tap - and if they are just having a joke with us.
Bass player Frankie Poullain sums up the band's attitude on their website."Everyone's too uptight these days," says Frankie. "I hate the arrogance of bands who think their petty emotions are interesting. If you look at bands from 25 years ago, people have smiles on their faces. We're bringing a bit of that back."
Are they for real or not? Well, it doesn't really matter if you like their music and they've got the songs to do carry it off. And they have. Permission to Land begins just as it means to go on: Scintillating guitar riffs, Hawkins' falsetto voice and some damned good tunes which have an instant appeal.
The Darkness wear their influences: AC/DC; Thin Lizzy; Led Zepellin; Rainbow and a host of other bands on their sleeves, but this doesn't get in the way. The heavy rock attitude pervades the whole album, with its - ahem - 'interesting' song titles, such as "Get Your Hands Off My Woman", "Love on the Rocks with no Ice" and "Love is only a Feeling". But that was the thing about the 70s - there wasn't any political correctness.
They are also a dab hand at turning a slow tune, as well as the hard-rocking variety, as the album's closing track, "Holding my Own", demonstrates. The lyrics are pretty choice, too, but I can't elaborate further than that - at least not on a BBC website. Let's just say it's well and truly earned the 'Parental Advisory' sticker that lives on the CD case.
All in all this is an impressive debut album, and like a breath of fresh air to those fed up of the introspective and ultra-serious bands such as Coldplay and Radiohead.
The Darkness are going to be huge.
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Permission to Land is the debut studio album by British hard rock band The Darkness, released in the United Kingdom on 7 July 2003 and in the United States on 5 August 2003. The album topped the UK Albums Chart and reached number thirty-six on the American Billboard 200 chart. Four singles were released from Permission to Land: "Get Your Hands off My Woman", "Growing on Me", "I Believe in a Thing Called Love" and "Love Is Only a Feeling"; "I Believe in a Thing Called Love" was the most successful, reaching number two on the UK Singles Chart. In addition to its chart success, Permission to Land also provided The Darkness with two high-profile music awards—Best Rock Album at the 2003 Kerrang! Awards and Best British Album at the 2004 BRIT Awards (at which they also won the awards for Best British Group and Best British Rock Act). Permission to Land was voted 49th in the 50 Greatest Albums of the 21st Century in Kerrang!. Permission to Land was later referenced in the song "Whichever Way You Wanna Give It" by lead singer Justin Hawkins' other band Hot Leg.
User Album Review
Welcome to The Darkness, a band determined to put entertainment back into rock music. Anyone who has seen the video for their latest single, "Growing on Me", will have at least an inkling of what we're on about. For those who haven't, it goes like this: Flying dinosaur 'mounts' alien spaceship, which gives birth to four eggs, which immediately hatch into four young children dressed as outrageous 70s rock stars. The children climb into a helicopter, but by the time it lands in the grounds of a huge country manor, the boys have transformed into the band.
What follows is an orgy of good old rock 'n' roll excess, as singer Justin Hawkins prances around (in a pink, slashed to the waist catsuit) like a demented Freddie Mercury, with perhaps a bit of Jagger thrown in. Meanwhile the equally rock 'n' roll attired members of the band do their stuff, visiting every heavy rock cliche along the way. As the video ends, Hawkins, still wearing 'that catsuit', plays the song out with the most amazing guitar solo in front of a wall of amplifiers. Pure class.
But then The Darkness are the saviours of heavy rock. And the proof is Permission to Land, their debut album, released on 7th July 2003.
Seventies revival bands aren't anything new - witness current media darlings The Datsuns and The White Stripes - but The Darkness are very, very different. For a start they set out to entertain and go about their business with smiles on their faces, which makes for a refreshing change. Then there's the sheer showmanship of Hawkins, who apparently makes their gigs a whole new experience. This utterly over the top flamboyancy has certainly got the music press going, as many wonder whether The Darkness are another Spinal Tap - and if they are just having a joke with us.
Bass player Frankie Poullain sums up the band's attitude on their website."Everyone's too uptight these days," says Frankie. "I hate the arrogance of bands who think their petty emotions are interesting. If you look at bands from 25 years ago, people have smiles on their faces. We're bringing a bit of that back."
Are they for real or not? Well, it doesn't really matter if you like their music and they've got the songs to do carry it off. And they have. Permission to Land begins just as it means to go on: Scintillating guitar riffs, Hawkins' falsetto voice and some damned good tunes which have an instant appeal.
The Darkness wear their influences: AC/DC; Thin Lizzy; Led Zepellin; Rainbow and a host of other bands on their sleeves, but this doesn't get in the way. The heavy rock attitude pervades the whole album, with its - ahem - 'interesting' song titles, such as "Get Your Hands Off My Woman", "Love on the Rocks with no Ice" and "Love is only a Feeling". But that was the thing about the 70s - there wasn't any political correctness.
They are also a dab hand at turning a slow tune, as well as the hard-rocking variety, as the album's closing track, "Holding my Own", demonstrates. The lyrics are pretty choice, too, but I can't elaborate further than that - at least not on a BBC website. Let's just say it's well and truly earned the 'Parental Advisory' sticker that lives on the CD case.
All in all this is an impressive debut album, and like a breath of fresh air to those fed up of the introspective and ultra-serious bands such as Coldplay and Radiohead.
The Darkness are going to be huge.
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