| Action Reaction | ||||
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| Released | 1984 | |||
| Recorded | Oct/Nov 1982, Remixed: July 1983 | |||
| Genre | Post-punk | |||
| Length | 34:20 | |||
| Label | Fever / Enigma | |||
| Producer | Taylor Ross, Iain Burgess | |||
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Action Reaction is the debut album by American Post-punk band Get Smart!, released on Enigma Records' "Fever" imprint in 1984.
It was originally announced, in Nebraska's "Capitol Punishment", that the album would be released on the "Fresh Sounds" label, [1] which had previously released the band's debut single and the "Fresh Sounds" cassette, but the band eventually signed with the Philadelphia based "Fever Records" (not to be confused with the New York-based label of the same name), so the album was actually released on that label.
The album was originally recorded by Michael McGee and produced by Taylor Ross at Media Sound in Oklahoma City. Ross then recruited Iain Burgess to remix the album for release at Chicago Recording Company in Chicago. [2]
An earlier version of "Ankle Deep In Mud" had appeared on their debut single, "Numbers and Colours", and an earlier version of "Black Mirror" has appeared on the "Sub Pop #7" compilation cassette.
All songs were written by the band, except for "Ankle Deep In Mud" which was written by Vance Lyons, and "Black Mirror" where the lyrics were written by Vance Lyons and the music was written by Get Smart!. [2] (Vance Lyons had played with Marc Koch in a previous band called the Battling Tops.)
Side 1 and Side 2 were originally supposed to be reversed, as the album was supposed to start with "On And On" and then end with "You've Got To Stop" (i.e. it would start with "On" and end with "Stop"), but for some unknown reason this was reversed in the final product.
Side 1:
Side 2:
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