We Gotta Get Out of This Place (album)

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We Gotta Get Out of This Place
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Studio album by
ReleasedApril 1980
Genre Punk rock, Oi!
Label Warner Bros.
Producer Pete Wilson
Angelic Upstarts chronology
Teenage Warning
(1979)
We Gotta Get Out of This Place
(1980)
2,000,000 Voices
(1981)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Smash Hits 5/10 [1]
AllMusic 3.5/5 [2]

We Gotta Get Out of This Place is Angelic Upstarts's second album, released in 1980. [3]

Contents

Track listing

All songs written by Thomas Mensforth and Ray Cowie, except where noted.

Side A

  1. "Never 'Ad Nothin'" - 2.46
  2. "Police Oppression" - 3.14
  3. "Lonely Man of Spandau" - 2.49
  4. "Their Destiny Is Coming" - 2.42
  5. "Shotgun Solution" (Mensforth, Stix Warrington) - 2.17
  6. "King Coal" (Mensforth, Cowie, Warrington, Taylor) - 3.38

Side B

  1. "Out of Control" - 2.24
  2. "Ronnie is a Rocker" - 2.31
  3. "Listen To The Steps" (Mensforth, Cowie, Warrington, Taylor) - 2.36
  4. "Can't Kill a Legend" - 3.10
  5. "Capital City" (Mensforth, Cowie, Warrington) - 3.06
  6. "We Gotta Get Out of This Place" (Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil) - 4.02

Personnel

Angelic Upstarts

with:

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References

  1. Starr, Red. "Angelic Upstarts: We Gotta Get Outta This Place". Smash Hits (April 17–30, 1980): 30.
  2. https://www.allmusic.com/album/we-gotta-get-out-of-this-place-mw0000032302
  3. We Gotta Get Out of This Place at the www.discogs.com