2,000,000 Voices

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2,000,000 Voices
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Studio album by
ReleasedJune 1981
RecordedSeptember 1980, March 1981
Studio Trident Studios, London; EMI Studios, Abbey Road, London
Genre Punk rock, Oi!
Label EMI
Producer Angelic Upstarts, Ashley Goodall, Peter Wilson
Angelic Upstarts chronology
We Gotta Get Out of This Place
(1980)
2,000,000 Voices
(1981)
Still from the Heart
(1982)

2,000,000 Voices is Angelic Upstarts's third album, released in 1981. [1]

Contents

Track listing

All tracks composed by Thomas Mensforth and Ray Cowie; except where noted

Side A
  1. "Two Million Voices"
  2. "Ghost Town"
  3. "You're Nicked"
  4. "England"
  5. "Heath's Lament" (Thomas Mensforth)
  6. "Guns For The Afghan Rebels"
  7. "I Understand"
Side B
  1. "Mensi's Marauders"
  2. "Mr. Politician"
  3. "Kids On the Streets"
  4. "Jimmy"
  5. "We're Gonna Take the World"
  6. "Last Night Another Soldier"
  7. "I Wish"

Personnel

Angelic Upstarts

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References

  1. 2,000,000 Voices at the www.discogs.com.