Fourth Wall (album)

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Fourth Wall
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Studio album by
Released1981 (1981)
Studio Berry Street Studio, Pathway Studios, Music Works, Mekon Studios, London
Label Virgin
Producer David Cunningham
The Flying Lizards chronology
The Flying Lizards
(1979)
Fourth Wall
(1981)
Top Ten
(1984)

Fourth Wall is the second studio album by English rock band the Flying Lizards. [1] It was released in 1981 by record label Virgin. [2] [3] The album features numerous collaborators, including Robert Fripp.

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Reception

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Trouser Press called it "well-produced and interesting as individual songs, but it fails to jell as an album". [6]

Track listing

All tracks are composed by David Cunningham except where indicated.

Tracks that were originally on side 1 of the LP:

  1. "Lovers and Other Strangers" (David Cunningham, Patti Palladin, Steve Beresford)
  2. "Glide/Spin" (Cunningham, Palladin)
  3. "In My Lifetime"
  4. "Cirrus"
  5. "A-Train" (Cunningham, Palladin)
  6. "New Voice"

Tracks that were originally on side 2 of the LP:

  1. "Hands 2 Take" (Nyman, Cunningham, Palladin)
  2. "An Age"
  3. "Steam Away"
  4. "Move On Up" (Curtis Mayfield)
  5. "Another Story"
  6. "Lost and Found" (Cunningham, Robert Fripp)

Personnel

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