THE POP GROUP For How Much Longer LP ROUGH TRADE 1980 UKorig no poster ROUGH9Y2
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THE POP GROUP
However one might describe their music, the Pop Group most certainly were not a pop group, and while they rose to popularity as the first wave of British punk had yet to break, they weren't really punk either, through their aggressive fusion of funk, noise, dub, free jazz, proto-punk, post-beat poetics, and untold volumes of forbidden knowledge could probably have only coalesced in 1977, a time when the rules of rock and its subgenres seemed to have been temporarily suspended in the U.K. The Pop Group were formed in Bristol, a city in Southwest England, in 1977 by Mark Stewart...
"FOR HOW MUCH LONGER DO WE TOLERATE MASS MURDER?"
tracklisting
Side A: FORCES OF OPPRESSION - FEED THE HUNGRY
ONE OUT OF MANY - BLIND FAITH - HOW MUCH LONGER
Side B: JUSTICE - THERE ARE NO SPECTATORS
COMMUNICATE - ROB A BANK
1980 LP ROUGH TRADE RECORDS ROUGH 9 Y2MADE IN ENGLAND ORIGINAL PRESSING
SINGLE SLEEVE WITHOUT POSTER
This version: photo & text on back cover are printed upside down.
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LABEL: ROUGH TRADE - WHITE LABEL w/ARTWORK - BLACK TEXT
Catalog on cover: ROUGH 9 Y2
Catalog on labels: (Side A only) Rough 9 Y2
Matrix / Runout: (Side A, Etched): ROUGH-9-A-1 ?
Matrix / Runout: (Side B, Etched): ROUGH-9-B-1 ?
On labels: (Side A only) ? 1980 © Rough Trade
Recorded & mixed Foel studios by The Pop Group & Dave Anderson
On back cover: help
gradingRECORD EX but (please, read above description)
SLEEVE NEAR EX but (please, see pictures and read above description)
The Pop Group's second full-length album, 1980's For How Much Longer Do We Tolerate Mass Murder?, was an even more abrasive and challenging assault upon the listener than their striking debut, Y, and every bit as urgent and uncompromising as the title would lead one to expect. Reeling from the first salvos of Margaret Thatcher's reign as British Prime Minister, Mark Stewart's agitprop lyrics became even more direct and filled with purposeful rage on tracks like "Forces of Oppression," "Rob a Bank," "Justice," and "How Much Longer," while the music similarly upped the ante from the debut. For How Much Longer Do We Tolerate Mass Murder? lacks the dubwise tone of Dennis Bovell's production on Y, but the lean, blunt sound of this album connects with even greater ferocity, starting with a guitar-driven variation on James Brown's primal funk sides of the late '60s and adding elements of free jazz, atonal experimental music, and found noises until the music begins to sound like some sort of riot pouring out of your stereo...(AllMusic)
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