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Release Date: 1988

Label: Not On Label

"Camden Market" style cassette bootleg, with dayglo pink insert with track listing, on a TDK D60 cassette. Probably a "Big Al" production, with a "MX" (mixing desk) quality designation. Tracks A1 to B2 are taken from the abortive 1985 version of "Protest Songs". B3 to B5 are from the John Peel session broadcast August 18th 1985. B6 (with the fake crowd noise and prog funk intro) is from the CD Release of "Cars and Girls". "Protest Songs" had been completed in October 1985 for a limited edition fan release promoted during the autumn and winter tour of that year. However when "When Love Breaks Down" became a hit in December, CBS pulled the release, and it would not appear as an official album until 1989, in a different version, with "Life of Surprises" added to side 1 and some edits to make space for it. A very small number of test pressings made it out into the wild, one falling into the hands of bootleggers, and it was widely circulated.

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