The Mob - No Doves Fly Here
Original Release Date
1981
Release Information
UK 7" 1981 (Crass - 321984/7)
1 No Doves Fly Here 6:38
2 I Hear You Laughing 4:13
Chart Placings
UK Indie Hit: 8, 15 wksCredits
Mark - vocals, guitar
Curtis - bass
Josef Portar - drums
Production: Penny Rimbaud
Engineer: John Loder
Recorded and mixed at Southern Studios, London, Sept 81
Reviews & Opinions
PUNK LIVES #2, 1982: They call things like [The Damned's Wait For The Blackout] "punk" and meanwhile playing around obscure little gigs (like beside the Westway in Portobello Road) are bands like THE MOB, doing subtle little classics like 'No Doves', to stunning arrays of colourful people, with absolutely no publicity. There again, considering what a band has to go through for publicity, I reckon that whatever it is bands like the Mob are up to they are better off without it. "Psychedelic rockers carry no cross" the pun-merchants scream in my ear, "out demons out".
STEVE SPINALI, MAXIMUM ROCKNROLL #2, SEPTEMBER 1982: The anti-war sentiments of this single are related with a good feeling for concise, compelling verbal imagery, too bad this effort veers into non-descript pop, especially on the flipside. While a song like "No Doves . . ." would have been right at home on the Wargasm compilation, its subject matter has been done more powerfully, lyrically, and eloquently elsewhere. Disappointing.
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