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Various Artists – Wanna Buy a Bridge? A Rough Trade Collection of Singles
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Wanna Buy a Bridge? A Rough Trade Collection of Singles
Label: Rough Trade
Catalog Number: Rough-US 3
Released: 1978, 1979, 1980
In 1980, the British label Rough Trade opened a Stateside satellite office in San Francisco and, as a way of introduction, curated a 14-song collection of the label’s highlights. More than 40 years later, the tracks they picked are some of the most essential Brit-punk and post-punk singles of the era. The Slits remixed by a young Adrian Sherwood. The Raincoats’ yowling “In Love.” The Television Personalities’ indictment of lukewarm posers, “Part-Time Punks.” Swede-punk trio Kleenex’s (aka Liliput) three-minute exclamation point “Ain’t You.” Cabaret Voltaire’s electro-punk anthem “Nag Nag Nag.” Robert Wyatt gem “At Last I Am Free.” Add in Delta 5, Essential Logic, the Pop Group, and more, and the result is a riveting listen from start to finish — and an inexpensive way to snag a lot of great singles on vinyl in one fell swoop. – Randall
Tags: Post-Punk / Punk / Rough Trade
Tracklist:
A1 “Alternative Ulster” – Stiff Little Fingers
A2 “Mind Your Own Business” – Delta 5
A3 “Man Next Door” – The Slits
A4 “Aerosol Burns” – Essential Logic
A5 “Part Time Punks” – Television Personalities
A6 “Read About Seymour” – Swell Maps
A7 “We Are All Prostitutes” – The Pop Group
B1 “Soldier Soldier” – Spizzenergi
B2 “Ain’t You” – Kleenex
B3 “Nag Nag Nag” – Cabaret Voltaire
B4 “In Love” – The Raincoats
B5 “Final Day” – Young Marble Giants
B6 “Skank Bloc Bologna” – Scritti Politti
B7 “At Last I Am Free” – Robert Wyatt
Credits:
Rough Trade Music 1980
Track A1 Rigit Digits
Track A3 John Holt
Track B1 Orwell-Endwell / Chappells Music
Track B7 Warner Bros. Music Inc.
Rough Trade Inc. 1980
Rough Trade Records Inc., San Francisco, U.S.A.
Track A1 recorded: 1978 (Stiff Little Fingers – Alternative Ulster) RT 004
Track A2 recorded: 1978 (Delta 5 – Mind Your Own Business) RT 031
Track A3 recorded: 1979 (The Slits – Man Next Door) RT 044 (misprinted catalog# RT 045)
Track A4 recorded: 1978 (Essential Logic – Aerosol Burns) R.T./Cells Records – Sell 1
Track A5 H. Green & B. Forsyth didn´t show up
A Garibaldi Production
Recorded: August 1978
Originally issued on King’s Rd. Records (misprinted, correct label name is “Kings Road”)
Re-issued: Television Personalities – Where’s Bill Grundy Now? RT 033
Track A6 recorded: September 1977
Originally issued on Swell Maps – Read About Seymour Rather Records Gear one
Re-issued: Swell Maps – Read About Seymour / Ripped & Torn / Black Velvet RT 010
Track A7 recorded: Oct 79 (The Pop Group – We Are All Prostitutes) RT 023
Track B1 recorded: July 1979 (Spizzenergi – Soldier Soldier) RTSO 3
Track B2 recorded: 1978
Originally issued on Kleenex – Kleenex Sunrise 078-1964
Re-issued: Kleenex – Ain’t You / Hedi’s Head RT 009
Track B3 The drum machine played itself
Recorded: April 1979 (Cabaret Voltaire – Nag Nag Nag) RT 018
Track B4 recorded: March 1979 (The Raincoats – Fairytale In The Supermarket) RT 013
Track B5 recorded: February 1980 (Young Marble Giants – Final Day) RT 043
Track B6 recorded: August 1978 (Scritti Politti – Skank Bloc Bologna) St. Pancras Records – SCRIT 1 / Dist. by R.T.
Track B7 recorded: February 1980 (Robert Wyatt – At Last I Am Free / Strange Fruit) RT 052 (misprinted catalog# “RT 050”)
Processed (Plating / Metalwork) at Greg Lee Processing based on the ‘L-2804’ & ‘L-2804X’ etchings.
Pressing plant identified as Record Technology Incorporated by the cross (✛) with dots in the quadrants on runout side A.
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