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Snakes and Ladders (Frank Tovey album)

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Recorded
  
1985

Release date
  
May 1985

Genre
  
New wave

Artist
  
Fad Gadget

Label
  
Mute Records

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Released
  
May 1986 , re-released 2001

Snakes and Ladders (1986)
  
The Fad Gadget Singles (1986)

Producers
  
Fad Gadget, Eric Radcliffe

Similar
  
Tyranny and the Hired Hand, Incontinent, Easy Listening for the Ha, The Fad Gadget Singles, Gag

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Snakes and Ladders is a studio album from Frank Tovey. It was first released in 1986.

Contents

The original vinyl release of this album featured a largely acoustic version of his hit "Collapsing New People" which was subsequently removed from the CD re-issue. Some versions of the original album came with an additional EP that came with extra tracks, recorded under Frank Tovey's pseudonym Fad Gadget, which were retained for the CD re-issue.

Personnel

  • Frank Tovey, vocals, guitar, synthesizer
  • Davis John Simmonds, keyboard
  • Guy Evans, "batphone" and "fibrephone"
  • David John Rhodes, rhythm guitar
  • E.C. Radcliffe, lead guitar, rhythm guitar
  • David John Rodgers, bass guitar
  • Nicholas John Cash, drums

    • LP release

    1. "The Cutting Edge"
    2. "Snakes and Ladders"
    3. "The Cutting Edge" (Reprise)
    4. "Shot in the Dark"
    5. "Concrete"
    6. "Collapsing New People"
    7. "Luxury"
    8. "Small World"
    9. "Luddite Joe"
    10. "Megalomaniac"

    Additional EP tracks:

    1. "Coitus Interruptus"
    2. "Innocent Bystander"
    3. "Sheep Look Up"
    4. "Ideal World"

    CD release

    1. "The Cutting Edge"
    2. "Snakes and Ladders"
    3. "The Cutting Edge "(Reprise)
    4. "Shot in the Dark"
    5. "Concrete"
    6. "Luxury"
    7. "Small World"
    8. "Luddite Joe"
    9. "Megalomaniac"
    10. "Bed of Nails"
    11. "Clean This Act Up"
    12. "Coitus Interruptus"
    13. "Innocent Bystander"
    14. "Sheep Look Up"
    15. "Ideal World"

    Songs

    1The Cutting Edge3:54
    2Snakes and Ladders3:12
    3The Cutting Edge (reprise)1:00

    References

    Snakes and Ladders (Frank Tovey album) Wikipedia
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