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1980
FAST
PRODUCT - THE FIRST YEAR PLAN
LP,
EMI EMC 3312
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THE
MEKONS Never Been In A Riot
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2.3
All Time Low |
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THE
MEKONS Heart And Soul
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2.3
Where To Now |
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THE
MEKONS 32 Weeks
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GANG
OF FOUR Love Like Anthrax |
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SCARS
Adult/ery
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GANG
OF FOUR Armalite Rifle |
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SCARS
Horror Show
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GANG
OF FOUR Damaged Goods |
THE
HUMAN LEAGUE Being Boiled
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THE
MEKONS I'll Have To Dance Then [On My Own] |
THE
HUMAN LEAGUE Circus Of Death
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THE
MEKONS Where Were You |
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album compiled early single releases on the Fast Product
label, including both sides of the League's debut
single. |
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In the USA, the album was released by JEM the previous
year as Mutant Pop 78/79 in a different sleeve
(pictured right) and included additional music by Flowers. |
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Australian release, also in 1979, was titled Fast Product
/ Various and omitted the final few seconds of the
League's Circus Of Death (which also happened when
the track was featured on the CD reissue of the Reproduction
album). |
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The
UK album was reissued on CD by EMI in 1993 under a new title, Rigour,
Discipline And Disgust (CDEMC 3654), with seven bonus tracks:
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THE
FIRE ENGINES Discord
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THE
FIRE ENGINES Meat Whiplash
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THE
FIRE ENGINES Candy Skin
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THE
HUMAN LEAGUE The Dignity Of Labour
[Part 1]
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THE
HUMAN LEAGUE The Dignity Of Labour [Part 2]
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THE
HUMAN LEAGUE The Dignity Of Labour [Part 3]
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THE
HUMAN LEAGUE The Dignity Of Labour [Part 4]
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| Being
Boiled and Circus Of Death written by Ware/Marsh/Oakey,
The Dignity Of Labour [Parts 1-4] written by Marsh/Ware |
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All
Human League tracks produced by The Human League
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Deleted
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November
1980
MACHINES
LP,
Virgin V2177
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ORCHESTRAL
MANOEUVRES IN THE DARK Messages
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JOHN
FOXX Underpass |
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THE
SILICON TEENS Memphis Tennessee
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HENRY
BADOWSKI Making Love With My Wife |
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TUBEWAY
ARMY Down In The Park
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PUBLIC
IMAGE LIMITED Pied Piper |
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THE
HUMAN LEAGUE Being Boiled
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FAD
GADGET Ricky's Hand |
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THOMAS
LEER Private Plane
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KAREL
FIALKA The Eyes Have It |
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DALEK
I Dalek I Love You
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GARY
NUMAN Aircrash Bureau |
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XTC
The Somnambulist |
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| Virgin
released this compilation to promote some of their lesser-known artists
by placing them alongside a handful of vaguely similar 'chart acts',
such as OMD (represented by their first big UK hit from May 1980)
and two tracks licensed from Beggars Banquet which featured Gary Numan.
The album was also released in New Zealand with a different tracklisting
(the tracks by Thomas Leer, Dalek I and Karel Fialka were replaced
by Crash Course In Science's Kitchen Motors and Irmin Schmidt
& Bruno Spoerri's Rapido De Noir). |
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the album alongside the Cash Cows compilation (see below) for
Sounds, Betty Page described the "overwhelmingly rich-textured
second version of Being Boiled" as "just as good
as the League's original. Technically swisher, it's real cabaret,
padded out with synthinastics at every juncture with a rousing ornate
climax". The term "synthinastics" is not explained. |
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Being
Boiled written by Ware/Marsh/Oakey
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Being
Boiled produced by The Human League and John Leckie
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Deleted
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November
1980
CASH
COWS
LP,
Virgin Milk 1
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XTC
Respectable Street
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THE
PROFESSIONALS Kick Down The Doors |
THE
HUMAN LEAGUE The Black Hit Of Space
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THE
FLYING LIZARDS Hands 2 Take |
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MIKE
OLDFIELD Sheba
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FINGERPRINTZ
Yes Eyes |
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JAPAN
Ain't That Peculiar
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CAPTAIN
BEEFHEART & THE MAGIC BAND Dirty Blue Gene |
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THE
RUTS West One [Shine On Me]
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GILLAN
Are You Sure |
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SKIDS
Arena
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KEVIN
COYNE Taking On The World |
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PUBLIC
IMAGE LIMITED Attack |
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completists only! Virgin threw together album tracks by such disparate
artists as hard-rockin' Gillan, the then-avant-garde Public Image
Limited and the suave, sophisicated Japan, and expected people to
buy the resulting compilation, simply because it was cheap (a maximum
price of £1.15 was stipulated on the sleeve's sticker). Strangely
enough, this seemed to work; the album reached Number 49 in the UK
charts, faring better than the superior Machines compilation
which was released around the same time, priced £3.99. |
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album features The Black Hit Of Space, though as it is exactly
the same version as was used on Travelogue,
there is no good reason to seek out this shoddy compilation. As Betty
Page remarked in her Sounds review, "it's only Aunty Bransonburgers
getting desperate, so save the ackers for a rainy day"... |
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The
Black Hit Of Space written by The Human League
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The
Black Hit Of Space produced by The Human League and Richard
Manwaring
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Deleted
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Next:
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| The
Golden Hour Of The Future |
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selected
UK compilations (part two)
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