Shop Assistants (album)

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Shop Assistants
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ReleasedNovember 1986
RecordedAugust 1986
StudioHart Street Studios, Edinburgh
Genre Indie pop, noise pop
Label Blue Guitar
Producer Mayo Thompson, John Ryan, Shop Assistants
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Shop Assistants is the only album released by Shop Assistants. It was released in November 1986 on the Chrysalis Records "indie" offshoot Blue Guitar. The album was critically acclaimed by Sounds staff who put Shop Assistants on the list of top 50 best albums of 1986. [2]

Contents

The album was reissued in 1997 by Overground Records under the title Will Anything Happen, and again on CD by Cherry Red in 2008 with two bonus tracks, [3] both of which had originally appeared on the B-side of the single "I Don't Wanna Be Friends With You". The album was described by Allmusic's Jason Ankeny as "an essential artefact of its times". [4]

Track listing

All tracks composed by Shop Assistants; except where noted.

  1. "I Don't Wanna Be Friends With You" - 2:18
  2. "All Day Long" - 1:50
  3. "Before I Wake" - 2:42
  4. "Caledonian Road" - 2:13
  5. "All That Ever Mattered" - 2:15
  6. "Fixed Grin" - 2:51
  7. "Somewhere in China" - 3:13
  8. "Train from Kansas City" (Ellie Greenwich, Jeff Barry) - 3:42
  9. "Home Again" - 1:41
  10. "Seems to Be" - 2:22
  11. "After Dark" - 2:36
  12. "All of the Time" - 2:23
  13. "What a Way to Die" (David Leone - uncredited) - 1:59
  14. "Nature Lover" - 1:55
  15. "Looking Back" (CD reissue only) - 1:45
  16. "All Day Long" (slow version) (CD reissue only) - 2:27

"What a Way to Die" was credited to "unknown", but it is a cover of David Leone's small hit for Pleasure Seekers.

Personnel

Shop Assistants

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Technical

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References

  1. Jason Ankeny, "Shop Assistants - Will Anything Happen", AllMusic
  2. Andrzej Buda (2006) Historia rocka, popu i hip-hopu wedlu krytykow, Wydawnictwo Niezalezne: 68, 2006, ISBN   978-83-915272-8-3
  3. "Shop Assistants - Will Anything Happen", Cherry Red
  4. Ankeny, Jason: "Shop Assistants", in Bogdanov, Vladimir, Woodstra, Chris, Erlewine, Stephen Thomas (2002) All Music Guide to Rock , Backbeat Books, ISBN   978-0-87930-653-3