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The Shop Assistants (album)

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Released
  
1986

Release date
  
1986

Genre
  
Indie pop

Artist
  
The Shop Assistants

Label
  
Blue Guitar Records

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Shop Assistants (aka Will Anything Happen) is the only album released by Shop Assistants. It was released in November 1986 on the Chrysalis Records 'indie' offshoot Blue Guitar. The album was critically acclaimed by Sounds staff that made 'Shop Assistants' in the list of top 50 best albums of 1986

Contents

The album was reissued in 1997 by Overground Records, and again on CD by Cherry Red in 2008 with two bonus tracks. Both of these had originally appeared on the B-side of the single "I Don't Want To Be Friends With You". The album was described by Allmusic's Jason Ankeny as "an essential artefact of its times".

Track listing

  1. I Don't Want to Be Friends With You - 2:18
  2. All Day Long - 1:50
  3. Before I Wake - 2:42
  4. Caledonian Road - 2:13
  5. All That Ever Mattered - 2:15
  6. Fixed Grin - 2:51
  7. Somewhere in China - 3:13
  8. Train From Kansas City - 3:42
  9. Home Again - 1:41
  10. Seems to Be - 2:22
  11. After Dark - 2:36
  12. All of the Time - 2:23
  13. What a Way to Die - 1:59
  14. Nature Lover - 1:55
  15. Looking Back (CD reissue only) - 1:45
  16. All Day Long (slow version) (CD reissue only) - 2:27

Personnel

  • Alex Taylor - vocals
  • David Keegan - guitar
  • Sarah Kneale - bass
  • Laura MacPhail - drums
  • Songs

    1I Don't Wanna Be Friends With You2:16
    2All Day Long1:50
    3Before I Wake2:38

    References

    The Shop Assistants (album) Wikipedia