"It" the Album

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"It" the Album
ItTheCD.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 1986
Recorded1986
Length46:03
Label Anagram
Producer Alien Sex Fiend, Pete McGhee
Alien Sex Fiend chronology
Maximum Security
(1985)
"It" the Album
(1986)
Here Cum Germs
(1988)

"It" the Album is the fourth studio album by English gothic rock band Alien Sex Fiend, released in October 1986 by Anagram Records.

Contents

Content

The album cover was painted by frontman Nik Fiend.

Release

The 1986 cassette version ("It" the Cassette) also included the band's full 1985 album Maximum Security .

The album was later reissued in CD format with three additional tracks and retitled It (The CD).

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Trouser Press called the album "unquestionably the group's most creative, mind-expanding undertaking". [2]

Track listing

Side A
No.TitleLength
1."Smells Like..."5:49
2."Manic Depression"13:13
3."Believe It or Not"4:40
Side B
No.TitleLength
1."April Showers"9:15
2."Wop Bop"3:42
3."Get Into It"3:43
4."Lesson One"3:35
5."Do It Right"5:03
6."To Be Continued..."0:42
CD reissue bonus tracks
No.TitleLength
10."Buggin' Me..."3:39
11."Hurricane Fighter Plane" (Red Krayola cover)6:48
12."It Lives Again"3:46

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References

  1. ""It" the Album – Alien Sex Fiend". AllMusic . Retrieved 23 February 2015.
  2. Fasolino, Greg; Robbins, Ira. "TrouserPress.com :: Alien Sex Fiend". Trouser Press . Retrieved 23 February 2015.