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The Bedsit Tapes

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Released
  
August 30, 2005

Release date
  
30 August 2005

Artist
  
Soft Cell

Genre
  
Rock music

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Similar
  
Soft Cell albums, Rock music albums

The Bedsit Tapes is a compilation of songs recorded by the synthpop/new wave duo Soft Cell before their record contract with Some Bizzare Records. The album, released 1 August 2005, collects various songs recorded in an amateur studio at Leeds Metropolitan University, then called Leeds Polytechnic, in Leeds. The album includes three tracks which appeared on their rare independent 1980 release, Mutant Moments. The album has received criticism for not being comprehensive enough, excluding several rare cuts which have appeared on previous bootlegs. David Ball, the keyboardist, comments on the album in the liner notes.

Contents

The album includes a cover version of the song "Paranoid", originally recorded by the pioneering British heavy metal band Black Sabbath.

Track listing

  1. "Potential" (edited version with fade-out; the original segues into "L.O.V.E. Feelings")
  2. "L.O.V.E. Feelings" (edited version)
  3. "Metro MRX"
  4. "Bleak Is My Favourite Cliché"
  5. "Occupational Hazard"
  6. "Mix"
  7. "Factory Fun"
  8. "Science Fiction Stories"
  9. "Purely Functional"
  10. "A Cut Above the Rest"
  11. "Paranoid"
  12. "Excretory Eat Anorexia Nervosa"
  13. "Cleansing Fanatic"
  14. "Walking Make-Up Counter"
  15. "Pyrex My Cuisine"
  16. "Tupperware Party"

Songs

1Potential3:28
2LOVE Feeling3:27
3Metro Mr X2:08

References

The Bedsit Tapes Wikipedia