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Released
  
7 September 1979

Artist
  
The Slits

Producer
  
Dennis Bovell

Genres
  
Punk rock, Post-punk

Length
  
31:52

Release date
  
7 September 1979

Label
  
Antilles

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Recorded
  
1979 Spring;Ridge Farm Studio,Rusper, England

Cut(1979)
  
Bootleg Retrospective(1980)

Similar
  
The Slits albums, Post-punk albums

The slits cut


Cut is the debut album by The Slits. It was originally released on 7 September 1979 on the Island Records label (ILPS 9573) in the UK and on Antilles (AN 7077) in the US. It reached number 30 on the UK album charts at the time. In 2004 it was voted at no 58 in The Observer's list, The 100 Greatest British Albums. Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain listed the song "Typical Girls" in his top 50 favorite recordings of all time.

Contents

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Track listing

The album was re-released on CD in Europe in 1990 and in 2000 within the Island Master series (IMCD 90 and IMCD 275). In 2004 Koch Records licensed the master to Cut from Island Def Jam (who still held the rights to the album) and reissued the album on CD for the first time ever in the United States; previously, the album had been only available to Stateside fans on CD as an English import, since the album's original American release (on the Island subsidiary Antilles, during Island's association with Warner Bros. Records) had long since gone out of print.

All tracks written by Viv Albertine, Tessa Pollitt, Ariane Forster (aka Ari Up) and Paloma Romero (aka Palmolive)

Side one

  1. "Instant Hit" – 2:43
  2. "So Tough" – 2:41
  3. "Spend, Spend, Spend" – 3:18
  4. "Shoplifting" – 1:39
  5. "FM" – 3:35

Side two

  1. "Newtown" – 3:48
  2. "Ping Pong Affair" – 4:16
  3. "Love und Romance" – 2:27
  4. "Typical Girls" – 3:57
  5. "Adventures Close to Home" – 3:28

Bonus tracks

  1. "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" (Barrett Strong, Norman Whitfield)
  2. "Liebe and Romanze" (Slow Version)

2009 Deluxe Edition

Disc 1

  1. "Instant Hit"
  2. "So Tough"
  3. "Spend, Spend, Spend"
  4. "Shoplifting"
  5. "FM"
  6. "Newtown"
  7. "Ping Pong Affair"
  8. "Love und Romance"
  9. "Typical Girls"
  10. "Adventures Close to Home"
  11. "I Heard It Through The Grapevine"
  12. "Liebe and Romanze" (Slow Version)
  13. "Typical Girls" (Brink Style Dub)
  14. "Love and Romance" (John Peel Session 1977)
  15. "Vindictive" (John Peel Session 1977)
  16. "Newtown" (John Peel Session 1977)
  17. "Shoplifting" (John Peel Session 1977)
  18. "So Tough" (John Peel Session 1978)
  19. "Instant Hit" (John Peel Session 1978)
  20. "FM" (John Peel Session 1978)

Disc 2

  1. "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" (Demo)
  2. "Instant Hit" (8 Track Demo)
  3. "Spend, Spend, Spend" (8 Track Demo)
  4. "Newtown" (8 Track Demo)
  5. "Adventures Close to Home" (8 Track Demo)
  6. "Instant Hit" (Rough Mix)
  7. "So Tough" (Rough Mix)
  8. "Spend, Spend, Spend" (Toast Version)
  9. "Shoplifting" (Rough Mix)
  10. "FM" (Rough Mix)
  11. "Newtown" (Rough Mix)
  12. "Ping Pong Affair" (Rough Mix)
  13. "Love und Romance" (Rough Mix)
  14. "Typical Girls" (Rough Mix)
  15. "Adventures Close to Home" (Rough Mix)
  16. "So Tough" (Outtake)
  17. "Instant Hit" (Instrumental Outtake)
  18. "Typical Girls" (Instrumental Outtake)
  19. "Spend, Spend, Spend" (Dub Version)
  20. "In the Beginning, There Was Rhythm" (Early Version)

Personnel

The Slits
  • Ari Up – vocals
  • Viv Albertine – guitar
  • Tessa Pollitt – bass guitar

    • with:

  • Budgie – drums
  • Bruce Smith - uncredited voice on "Love und Romance"
  • Dennis Bovell – sound effects
    • Technical
  • Mike Dunne - engineer
  • Pennie Smith - photography

    • Songs

    1Instant Hit2:43
    2So Tough2:41
    3Spend - Spend - Spend3:18

    References

    Cut (The Slits album) Wikipedia
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