All the Rage (General Public album)

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All the Rage
All the Rage.jpg
Studio album by
General Public
ReleasedJanuary 1984 (1984-01)
Recorded1983–1984
Studio
Genre
Length40:48
Label I.R.S.
Producer
  • Colin Fairley
  • Gavin MacKillop
  • General Public
General Public chronology
All the Rage
(1984)		 Hand to Mouth
(1986)
Singles from All the Rage
  1. "General Public"
    Released: 1984
  2. "Tenderness"
    Released: May 1984
  3. "Never You Done That"
    Released: 1985
  4. "Hot You're Cool"
    Released: 1985

All the Rage is the debut studio album by English new wave band General Public, released in January 1984 by I.R.S. Records. It was recorded digitally. [1] After his expulsion from the Clash, Mick Jones was a founding member of General Public. Though he is listed in the credits of the album as a member, Jones left General Public part way through the recording process and was replaced by Kevin White. White's picture appears on the back cover; Jones' picture does not. Jones did play guitar on many of the album's tracks however, including "Tenderness". The album spent 39 weeks on the US Billboard 200 chart and reached its peak position of No. 26 in mid-February 1985. [2] However, it failed to chart in their home country.

Contents

The eponymous track "General Public" was the first single released from the album, peaking at No. 60 on the UK Singles Chart in 1984. [3] Later in the year, the band fared even better in North America, where their second single "Tenderness" was a Top 30 hit in Canada (No. 11) and the US (No. 27). The song's success benefited from appearing in the John Hughes films Sixteen Candles (1984) and Weird Science (1985) from the time period, and it would later appear in Amy Heckerling's Clueless (1995) and in the horror film Devil's Due (2014).

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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In a retrospective review for AllMusic, critic Stewart Mason wrote of the album, "All the Rage is certainly an album of its time -- those weedy synth-drums on the otherwise kinda funky "As a Matter of Fact" are a dead giveaway that this was recorded in 1984—but it sounds less dated than many of its contemporaries due to Wakeling's keen songwriting skills." [4]

Track listing

Side one

  1. "Hot You're Cool" (Mickey Billingham, Roger Charlery, Horace Panter, Dave Wakeling) – 3:47
  2. "Tenderness" (Billingham, Charlery, Wakeling) – 3:34
  3. "Anxious" (Charlery, Wakeling) – 4:19
  4. "Never You Done That" (Billingham, Charlery, Wakeling) – 4:08
  5. "Burning Bright" (Billingham, Charlery, Wakeling) – 4:30

Side two

  2. "As a Matter of Fact" (Billingham, Charlery, Panter, Wakeling) – 5:22
  3. "Are You Leading Me On?" (Charlery, Panter, Wakeling) – 3:09
  4. "Day-to-Day" (Charlery, Wakeling) – 3:28
  5. "Where's the Line?" (Billingham, Charlery, Panter, Wakeling) – 4:09
  6. "General Public" (Charlery, Wakeling) – 4:22

Personnel

Credits are adapted from the All the Rage liner notes. [5]

General Public

Additional musicians

Technical

Charts

ChartPeak
position
Canada Top Albums/CDs ( RPM ) [6] 19
US Billboard 200 [7] 26

Music Videos

The music video for “Never You Done That” was filmed [8] on the 4th Floor of the Puck Building at the corner of Houston and Lafayette Streets in New York. The video shows views of Houston Street and environs from the northwest windows. Views to the west on Houston were more expansive prior to the construction of a multi-story building across Lafayette Street in the late 2010s.  Visible in the video directly across the street is what is likely, judging from its shape, an Amoco gas station sign.  A gas station was located on that site until approximately 2014. Also visible in front of the gas station are two entrances to the Broadway-Lafayette Street subway station.  Further to the west are visible other extant buildings, such as the Cable Building (611 Broadway) and Breen Towers (180 West Houston) with its distinctive rooftop water tower.

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References

  1. ↑ Canale, Larry; Waryncia, Lou (1986). Digital Audio's Guide to Compact Discs. Bantam Books. p. 56.
  2. ↑ "Billboard 200: February 16, 1985". Billboard.com. Billboard. 2016. Retrieved 7 August 2016.
  3. ↑ Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 224. ISBN   1-904994-10-5.
  4. 1 2 Mason, Stewart. "All the Rage – General Public". AllMusic . Retrieved 17 June 2020.
  5. ↑ All the Rage (CD booklet). General Public. I.R.S. Records. 1984.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  6. ↑ "Top RPM Albums: Issue 6165a". RPM . Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved 17 June 2020.
  7. ↑ "General Public Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
  8. ↑ "General Public: Never You Done That (Music Video 1985) - Filming & production". IMDb. Retrieved 1 November 2024.
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