Name: The Second Album and The First Rehearsal Tapes
Brand: Suicide

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

5016027611629

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Discs

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

1999-06-26

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Warner Music Group

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Suicide

Genre GB

New Wave / Post Punk

Label GB

Blast First

back in stock the 1998 re-release of the seminal second suicide album from 1980. cd1 has the original album plus two extra tracks - the classic 'dream baby dream' / 'radiation' single. the ric ocasek-produced second album is less confrontational and more contemporary than the duo's terrifying debut. vega's rockabilly snarl and rev's burbling electronics remain, but ocasek's involvement purges a pop sensibility only hinted at on 'suicide'. some of the tracks are downright pretty ('shadazz,' 'diamonds, fur coat, champagne'). perhaps it's not as renegade as 'suicide', but it's an arguably better, more realized work, and just as essential. the album remains one of the key electronic albums to be released in the 1980s - alongside such classics as 'penthouse and pavement', 'red mecca' and 'travelogue'. cd2 has 45 minutes of unreleased rehearsals recorded in suicide's formative years at the musuem for living artists in 1975.

The Second Album and The First Rehearsal Tapes

Music GB