Shop Assistants
Shop Assistants
1986
Shop Assistants is a Pop album by Shop Assistants, originally released in 1986. On Gatefold: 14 pressings tracked.
Sound DNA
- Pop
About
Years after Shop Assistants disbanded, acts such as Slumber Party, the Aislers Set and the Concretes would borrow quite a bit from their melodic and fuzzy sound, but even in their Scottish homeland this delightful four-piece seems to have fallen into indie-pop obscurity. Combining their self-titled 1986 debut album with tracks from earlier seven-inches, this portrait of their first year and a half in existence is almost everything you need by the beguiling one-time <i>NME</i> cover stars (the absence of the awesome lullaby moment "It's Up To You" is puzzling, but not a big deal). This is the band for you if you like Phil Spector's girl- group productions from the ‘60s but wish they had a lot more distortion in the mix, or if you'd prefer to hear Nico's songs on the first Velvet Underground album backed by the Jesus and Mary Chain instead.
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Tracklist
- 1I Don't Want to Be Friends With You2:22
- 2All Day Long1:54
- 3Before I Wake2:44
- 4Caledonian Road2:16
- 5All That Ever Mattered2:19
- 6Fixed Grin2:53
- 7Somewhere In China3:16
- 8Train from Kansas City3:46
- 9Home Again1:44
- 10Seems to Be2:26
- 11All of the Time2:27
- 12What a Way to Die2:10
- 13Nature Lover1:57
- 14Looking Back1:49
- 15All Day Long (Slow Version)2:34
- 16Safety Net2:26
- 17Almost Made It2:20
- 18Somewhere In China3:00
Credits
Performers
- Sarah KnealeBASS VOCALS
- Laura McPhailDRUMS PERCUSSION
- David KeeganGUITAR
- Jon HunterTRUMPET
- Alex TaylorVOCALS TAMBOURINE
- John HunterTRUMPET
- Shop Assistants
14 pressings tracked on Gatefold