Released on 4AD Records – CAD 214 CD – 1982.
Tracks
- The Salesman
- Letter From Hall
- The Luckiest Citizen
- Revenge!
- The Courier
- The Man On Your Street
- A Night Underground
- Two Of A Kind
- March In Turin
- Puritans
- Innermost Thoughts
- The Mistake
Momus says
It’s 1982. Postcard Records and The Sound Of Young Scotland. An Edinburgh literature student called Nick Currie forms a pop group with three ex-members of local group Josef K. They sign to 4AD Records, home of The Birthday Party, and proceed to record a CD with the following cast list: an evangelical detergent salesman; a Fascist dictator who comes to power thanks to a lottery win; Samuel, the son of the salesman and Maria, the dictator’s beautiful daughter, who join the Red Brigades and plot to assassinate the Fascist. Confused? Just wait ’til you read the lyrics!
