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March
1981
B.E.F.
- MUSIC FOR STOWAWAYS
limited
edition cassette, Virgin TCV 2888 (re-issued as OVEDC 230)
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Optimum
Chant
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Music
To Kill Your Parents By |
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Uptown
Apocalypse
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The
Old At Rest |
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Wipe
The Board Clean
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Rise
Of The East |
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Groove
Thang
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Decline
Of The West |
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This rare cassette was Martyn and Ian's first B.E.F. release following
the split of the original League line-up. It's included here because
the second track, Uptown Apocalypse, featured their former
partner in the The Future, Adi Newton, on guitar and synthesizer (he
also co-wrote the track). |
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alternate version of this collection was exported on vinyl to territories
outside the UK. Entitled Music For Listening To, it featured
a different tracklisting (Groove Thang, Optimum Chant,
Uptown Apocalypse, B.E.F. Ident b/w A Baby Called
Billy, Rise Of The East, Music To Kill Your Parents By)
and catalogue number (BEF 1). In 1997, Virgin's US label Caroline
Records released a CD edition of Music For Listening To (Carol
1124-2), with three extra tracks (Wipe The Board Clean, The
Old At Rest and Decline Of The West) which were previously
included only on the Music For Stowaways version of the collection. |
| Click
here
to see a scan of the information sheet which accompanied promotional
copies of the album... |
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Uptown
Apocalypse written by Marsh/Ware/Newton/Turner
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Uptown
Apocalypse produced by B.E.F. (executive production by Bob Last)
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Deleted
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1981
ARLENE
PHILLIPS' HOT GOSSIP - GEISHA BOYS & TEMPLE GIRLS
LP,
Dindisc DID 13
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Soul
Warfare*
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Geisha
Boys And Temple Girls* |
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Houses
In Motion**
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Morale... |
I
Don't Depend On You
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The
Word Before Last |
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Burn
For You***
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Circus
Of Death |
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Gossip were a British dance troupe created by choreographer
Arlene Phillips, and they appeared regularly on British DJ Kenny
Everett's TV comedy show in the late 1970s. With singer Sarah
Brightman guesting on lead vocals, they scored a UK Number Six
hit in 1978 with I Lost My Heart To A Starship Trooper,
one of many dubious 'space'-themed records released to cash
in on the success of the first Star Wars film. |
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In truth, Hot Gossip contributed little more to the single than
a spot of dancing in the video and Sarah Brightman dispensed
with their services for her follow-up single, The Adventures
Of The Love Crusader (shrewdly credited to Sarah Brightman
& the Starship Troopers). But someone somewhere clearly
thought there was a market for further Hot Gossip records, despite
the fact that the dancers couldn't actually sing particularly
well. |
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on this album began in 1981, wiith Richard James Burgess (who
had already recorded a Hot Gossip single, Criminal World,
with his band Landscape) in the producer's chair. The album
was to be a collection of cover versions, entitled The Hollywood
Jungle, featuring songs by The Psychedelic Furs, The Rolling
Stones, Adam & The Ants, The Police and Talking Heads, among
others. |
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Richard eventually abandoned the project, leaving Geoff Westley
to complete production of Houses In Motion. Martyn and
Ian were then asked to salvage an album from the inconclusive
sessions. |
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They decided to ditch most of the material and took the opportunity
to fill 75% of the record with new recordings of their own Human League
and Heaven 17 songs, retaining only the Talking Heads and Police numbers
(Houses In Motion and Burn For You respectively). The
album was finished within just two weeks and renamed after one of
the Heaven 17 covers it now included. |
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Warfare
(a Heaven 17 song from their debut album, Penthouse &
Pavement) was issued as a single (DIN 38 and DIN 38/12)
in February 1982, backed by a mercifully instrumental version.
This was followed by the release of Hot Gossip's attempt
at the single the League had released as The Men, I
Don't Depend On You (DIN 39, pictured above, and the extended
12" version, DIN 39/12), which was backed by an alternate
version, Depend On Us. Like every other Hot Gossip release
since their 1978 hit, all of these records failed to reach the
charts. |
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| Thorn
EMI also released a VHS video edition of the album (catalogue
number TVE 90 0532 2 - click on sleeve pictured right for larger
version). This featured Hot Gossip performing songs from the
LP, plus two bonus tracks - a cover of Adam & The Ants'
Press Darlings, and Love On The Phone, thought
to be a cover of the Fellini Suzanne song, though this is unconfirmed.
It's not known whether these bonus tracks were BEF productions. |
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All
LP tracks written by Marsh/Oakey/Ware except *B.E.F./Gregory, **Byrne/Eno/Talking
Heads, ***Sting
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All
LP tracks produced by The British Electric Foundation except **Geoff
Westley
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Deleted
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Previously:
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selected
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miscellaneous
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