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The Raincoats (album)

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Released
  
3 November 1979

Artist
  
The Raincoats

Label
  
Rough Trade Records

Length
  
34:27

Release date
  
3 November 1979

Genre
  
Post-punk

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Recorded
  
1979 at Berry Street Studio, Clerkenwell, London

Producers
  
Geoff Travis, Mayo Thompson

Similar
  
Odyshape, Moving, The Kitchen Tapes, Looking in the Shadows

The Raincoats is the debut studio album by English rock band The Raincoats. It was released in 1979 on Rough Trade Records. The album is perhaps best known for its off-kilter cover of "Lola" by The Kinks. The album's seventh track, "The Void", was notably covered by Hole in 1994.

Contents

In May 2010 the band performed the album in its entirety in London.

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Background

The cover painting is by Pang Hsiao-Li.

Release

The Raincoats was re-released by Rough Trade in 1994, with liner notes by Kurt Cobain. The album was again re-released on 9 November 2009 on vinyl with a free mp3 download and an extra track, "Fairytale in the Supermarket", as well as a special edition bonus CD, including live footage from 1977 and 1979 and a video of "Fairytale in the Supermarket" on We ThRee, the band's own label in the UK and on the Kill Rock Stars label in the USA.

Critical reception

AllMusic praised the album, writing, "this music, even at its most dissonant, is stunning and captivating." Kurt Cobain listed it in his top fifty albums of all time.

Track listing

All songs written by The Raincoats, except where noted.

Side A
  1. "No Side to Fall In" – 1:47
  2. "Adventures Close to Home" – 1:54 (Viv Albertine, Tessa Pollitt, Arianne Forster, Paloma Romero)
  3. "Off Duty Trip" – 3:14
  4. "Black and White" – 2:29
  5. "Lola" (Ray Davies) – 4:03
Side B
  1. "The Void" – 3:51
  2. "Life on the Line" – 4:22 (lyrics by Ross Crighton and The Raincoats)
  3. "You're a Million" – 3:53
  4. "In Love" – 3:05
  5. "No Looking" – 3:05 (lyrics translated and adapted by The Raincoats from a poem by Jacques Prévert)

"Fairytale in the Supermarket", The Raincoats' first single, is included on all reissues of the album as an opening track since 1993.

Personnel

  • Ana da Silva – vocals, keyboards and guitar
  • Gina Birch – vocals and bass guitar
  • Palmolive – drums
  • Vicky Aspinall – vocals, guitar, bass guitar and violin
  • Lora Logic – saxophone on "Black and White"
  • Adam Kidron - engineer

    • Songs

    1No Side to Fall In1:46
    2Adventures Close to Home1:52
    3Off Duty Trip3:14

    References

    The Raincoats (album) Wikipedia
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