Pigs on Purpose

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Pigs on Purpose
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Studio album by
The Nightingales
Released1982
Recorded6–8 September 1982
StudioOutlaw Studios, Birmingham
Genre Post-punk
Length40:37 (original UK release
59:26 (2004 re-release)
Label Cherry Red
Producer Richard Strange
The Nightingales chronology
Pigs on Purpose
(1982)		 Hysterics
(1983)
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Pigs on Purpose is the first studio album released by British post-punk band The Nightingales. It was released in 1982 through the Cherry Red record label and was distributed by Pinnacle. [2] The album reached #15 in the UK Indie Chart.

Contents

James Robert wrote that the album was "a summation of their live set", but "let down by a flat production that didn't do justice to the duelling guitar thrust". [3] Stewart Lee writing in the Sunday Times in 2004 declared the album's reappearance "the CD reissue of the year". [4]

Track listing

  1. "Blood For Dirt" - 2:59
  2. "Start From Scratch" - 2:24
  3. "One Mistake" - 2:40
  4. "Well Done, Underdog" - 1:47
  5. "The Crunch" - 4:51
  6. "The Hedonists Sigh" - 2:25
  7. "It Lives Again!" - 3:01
  8. "Make Good" - 2:24
  9. "Don't Blink" - 3:58
  10. "Joking Apart" - 2:17
  11. "Yeah, It's O.K." - 5:15
  12. "Use Your Loaf" - 2:07
  13. "Blisters" - 4:29

The album was re-released in 2004, and included the band's 2nd, 3rd and 4th singles plus their respective b-sides. The debut single, "Idiot Strength", was not included. The additional tracks are:

  1. "Inside Out" - 3:01 (B-side to "Use Your Loaf")
  2. "Under The Lash" - 2:15 (B-side to "Use Your Loaf")
  3. "Paraffin Brain" - 2:57 (3rd single)
  4. "Elvis The Last Ten Days" - 2:50 (B-side to "Paraffin Brain")
  5. "Urban Ospreys" - 4:26 (4th single)
  6. "Cakehole" - 3:20 (B-side to "Urban Ospreys")

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ Allmusic review
  2. ↑ Nightingales website - "Pigs on Purpose"
  3. ↑ Robert, James (2003). Peter Buckley (ed.). The Rough Guide to Rock (3rd ed.). Rough Guides. pp.  1819. ISBN   1858284570.
  4. ↑ Lee, Stewart (5 December 2004). "The Nightingales: Pigs on Purpose". The Sunday Times. Retrieved 28 August 2021.
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