Released 1986 Release date 1986 Genre Indie pop | Artist The Shop Assistants Label Blue Guitar Records | |
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Indie pop albums C86, Ritual in Repeat, Waiting and Waiting, Still Night - Still Light, Sueños en Tránsito | ||
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
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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
- I Don't Want to Be Friends With You - 2:18
- All Day Long - 1:50
- Before I Wake - 2:42
- Caledonian Road - 2:13
- All That Ever Mattered - 2:15
- Fixed Grin - 2:51
- Somewhere in China - 3:13
- Train From Kansas City - 3:42
- Home Again - 1:41
- Seems to Be - 2:22
- After Dark - 2:36
- All of the Time - 2:23
- What a Way to Die - 1:59
- Nature Lover - 1:55
- Looking Back (CD reissue only) - 1:45
- All Day Long (slow version) (CD reissue only) - 2:27
Personnel
Songs
1I Don't Wanna Be Friends With You2:16
2All Day Long1:50
3Before I Wake2:38
References
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