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Suspended Animation (The Monks album)

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Released
  
1981

Release date
  
1981

Genre
  
Rock

Artist
  
The Monks

Label
  
CBS Records International


Recorded
  
Basing Street No. 1 Studio, London, England

Producers
  
Richard Hudson, John Ford, Terry Cassidy

Similar
  
Bad Habits, Black Monk Time, Bursting at the Seams, Lay Down with the Strawbs, Grave New World

The monks suspended animation full album 1980


Suspended Animation is an album by The Monks, released in 1981 in Canada on the Polydor label. In Germany it was released on CBS.

Contents

This album was the follow-up to the band's debut album, Bad Habits. The songs are composed by Richard Hudson, John Ford, and Terry Cassidy.

The album was reissued in the U.K., on CD for the first time, on August 24, 1999 on the Resurgent label. It was released yet again on January 12, 2009 on Angel Air Records. The re-released versions of the album featured six additional songs, from the band's never-completed third album, Cybernetic Sister.

In 2004, John Ford featured "Suspended Animation" on his solo album Backtracking, released on Whole Shot Records.

Track listing

  1. "Don't Want No Reds" - 2:53
  2. "Suspended Animation" - 4:43
  3. "Don't Bother Me - I'm a Christian" - 3:21
  4. "James Bondage" - 3:11
  5. "Grown-ups" - 2:47
  6. "Oxford Street" - 4:06
  7. "Cool Way to Live" - 3:07
  8. "Go" - 4:09
  9. "I Can Do Anything You Like" - 3:15
  10. "Plastic Max" - 4:20
  11. "King Dong" - 4:04
  12. "Space Fruit" - 3:46
1999/2009 re-release bonus tracks
  1. "Gold and Silver"
  2. "Cybernetic Sister"
  3. "Ann Orexia"
  4. "Beasts in Cages"
  5. "Slimy Gash"
  6. "Lost in Romance"

Personnel

  • Brian Willoughby - electric and acoustic guitars, backing vocals, synthesizer
  • John Ford - electric and acoustic guitars, backing vocals, synthesizer
  • Terry Cassidy - synthesizer, lead and backing vocals, clarinet
  • Richard Hudson - bass, backing vocals, sitar, guitar, synthesizer
  • Oliver Pierce - drums, backing vocals, percussion

    • Album information

  • German issue: CBS Records 85 396
  • Canadian issue: Polydor PDS 1-6214
  • SJPCD 279 (Angel Air 2009 re-release) ASIN: B00000JQLU

    • Songs

    1Don't Want No Reds2:53
    2Suspended Animation4:43
    3I'm Christian3:21

    References

    Suspended Animation (The Monks album) Wikipedia
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