The Go! Team

This six-piece musical cheerleading squad from Brighton, England, doesn't give a fig for football, only for mixing yesteryear's funk with orchestral TV themes. Available in the U.K. since 2004, this edition of their Mercury Prize-nominated debut sends their euphoric shout-alongs Stateside.

Jump-ropers of the world, unite and take over. The Go! Team create the long-awaited
fusion of Sonic Youth and the Spice Girls, a six-person cartoon-crazy funky bunch from the
English town of Brighton. On their debut, Thunder, Lightning, Strike, they blend guitar
rock, bubblegum funk, Charlie Brown piano, harmonica, horns, loads of samples and Sugar
Hill-style femme rapping from MC Ninja. As you might surmise from their Speed Ra... More >

The gleeful clamor of Today's Young People listening to what they want when they want to without paying for it and dancing around like kindergarteners at a maypole or gay guys under a mirrored ball and no offense Mr. Businessman but this is their birthright not your copyright so butt out OK? (Grade - A-)