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Release Date: 1987Label: Cog Sinister
Compilation: 1980-1983Distributed in the UK by The Cartel. Made in England. Cog Sinister Ltd.
℗ 1987 Cog Sinister
Disc reads 'Made in Switzerland'.
Times not printed on package.
Tracks 13 & 14 are bonus for CD. Some tracks were mastered directly from vinyl.
Compilation 1980-1983
The Fall established their own label Cog Sinister in 1987, initially to re-release hard to find material, but then also to issue new material by little-heard of artists. The first fruits were this essential compilation which contained long-deleted Rough Trade material in the main, as well as one unreleased live track
Track 10 previously unreleased, live in 1984
Tracks 2, 13 from 7” Rough Trade RT 048 (July 1980)
Track 3, 5 from 7” Rough Trade RT 056 (September 1980)
Track 4 from LP ‘Grotesque (After the gramme)’ (November 1980)
Tracks 1, 6, 7, 14 from 10” ‘Slates’ (April 1981)
Track 8 from 7” Kamera ERA 014 (October 1982)
Track 9 from 7” Rough Trade RT 133 (June 1983)
Tracks 11, 12 from 2x7” Rough Trade RT 143 (October 1983)