Tackhead Tape Time

Tackhead Tape Time
Studio album by Gary Clail's Tackhead Sound System
Released	1987
Genre	Funk, industrial
Length	36:11
Label	Nettwerk
Producer	Tackhead
Tackhead chronology
Tackhead Tape Time (1987) Friendly as a Hand Grenade (1989)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]

Tackhead Tape Time is the debut album by Tackhead. ^[2] It was released in 1987 through Nettwerk.

Composition

Tackhead Tape Time is a "robotic" electro-funk album, ^[3] containing abrasive beats, ^[4] funky guitar, ^[4] and instances of tape delay, which hint at the album's dub and reggae roots. ^[5] The album also boasts spliced, sampled speeches and quotes from the likes of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, downbeat news reports, military officers and televangelists, among other sources. ^{[5] [3]}

Track listing

All tracks are written by Tackhead.

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Mind at the End of the Tether"	6:38
2.	"Half Cut Again"	0:28
3.	"Reality"	7:07
4.	"M.O.V.E."	2:23
5.	"Hard Left"	5:07
6.	"Get This"	4:26
7.	"Man in a Suitcase"	4:09
8.	"What's My Mission Now? (Fight the Devil)"	5:51

2004 CD re-issue bonus tracks

No.	Title	Length
9.	"Something About You"	6:48
10.	"Autograph"	5:35

Accolades

Year	Publication	Country	Accolade	Rank
1995	Alternative Press	United States	"Top 99 of '85 to '95"	27	[6]
"*" denotes an unordered list.

Personnel

Tackhead

• Keith LeBlanc  – instruments
• Skip McDonald  – instruments
• Adrian Sherwood  – instruments
• Doug Wimbish  – instruments

Additional musicians and production

• Cesare – scratching on "Man in a Suitcase"
• Gary Clail  – mixing
• Tackhead  – producer

References

1. Anderson, Rick. "Tackhead Tape Time". AllMusic. Retrieved December 5, 2012.
2. Danton, Eric R. (September 6, 2004). "Tackhead Back Together". Hartford Courant. p. D1.
3. Anderson, Rick. "AllMusic Review by Rick Anderson". AllMusic. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
4. Fletcher, Tony; Frampton, Megan. "Tackhead". Trouser Press. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
5. "The 100 Best Albums of the 1980s". FACT Magazine. p. 24. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
6. "Top 99 Of '85 to '95". Alternative Press . Archived from the original on September 9, 2012. Retrieved May 29, 2013.

External links

• Tackhead Tape Time at Discogs (list of releases)