Name: We Know Nonsense
Brand: The 49 Americans

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

staub123

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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

2013-04-10

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Shellshock

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

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

Artist

The 49 Americans

Genre GB

New Wave / Post Punk

Label GB

the cd version is a lovingly assembled career-spanning compilation. it features the complete original 'we know nonsense' album as well as 23 (!) bonus tracks taken from the 49 americans' first album 'e pluribus unum' (1980) and their 7" 'the 14-track single (1979)'. a 20-pages booklet contains the incompleteable story of the 49 americans. the 49 americans make the swell maps sound like led zeppelin. long-awaited reissue of the second full-length album from 1982 by late 70s / early 80s uk diy super group the 49 americans. the main instigator behind the 49 americans was andrew 'giblet' brenner who assembled a loose, disparate group of musical / non-musical practitioners as an experiment in equality and democracy. this democracy included david toop, steve beresford, max eastley, lol coxhill and peter cusack (coming out of the anything goes improv scene), nag and bendle of the door and the window, viv albertine of the slits, vivien goldman (her adrian sherwoood / john lydon produced dirty washing 12" on 99 records is a classic), giblet's mum and many more.

We Know Nonsense

Music GB