Basilisk (The Legendary Pink Dots album)

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Basilisk
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Released1982
Recorded1981 - 1982
Genre Experimental
Label Third Mind (UK)
Terminal Kaleidoscope, Mirrordot (Netherlands)
Beta-lactam Ring (US)
The Legendary Pink Dots chronology
Apparition
(1981)
Basilisk
(1982)
Chemical Playschool 3 & 4
(1983)
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Basilisk is a 1982 album by The Legendary Pink Dots.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Stigmata Part One (Freiheit)" 4:43
  2. "Klazh" 1:40
  3. "Love Is..." 6:58
  4. "No Reason" 3:51
  5. "834" 1:11
  6. "Wall Purges Night (Version)" 4:15
  7. "Basilisk 1" 3:42
  8. "Methods" 2:19
  9. "Clean Up" 3:42
  10. "Basilisk 2" 26:32
  11. "The Ocean Cried 'Blue Murder' on A Ferry In a Storm On a Walkman" *
  12. "Ideal Home / The Glory, The Glory" *

(*) Tracks included on the 2002 BLRR re-release.

Personnel

Notes

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References

  1. Couture, François. Basilisk at AllMusic