Magazine - The Correct Use Of Soap (White Coloured Vinyl LP) (Integral Distribution Services)

Format:  White Coloured Vinyl LP
Cat No:  INTGDS006LP

‘The Correct Use Of Soap’ is the third studio album by English post-punk band Magazine, released by Virgin Records in 1980. It contains some of Magazine’s best known and most popular songs, including the singles ‘A Song From Under The Floorboards’ and ‘Sweetheart Contract’ and their cover of Sly and the Family Stone’s ‘Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)’. The album peaked at 28 in the UK Album Charts. It was Magazine’s last album with original guitarist John McGeoch, who left the band after the release of the album and joined Siouxsie and the Banshees.

Enduringly credible, Magazine have always been the connoisseur’s choice and frequently name-checked by some of the most gifted musicians of recent years, including Radiohead, Morrissey, Jarvis Cocker, U2, Johnny Marr and MGMT. NME.com went so far as to include Magazine in a poll as one of The Most Influential Bands Of All Time.

Magazine’s front man, Howard Devoto, co-formed Buzzcocks with Pete Shelley after the pair had seen The Sex Pistols in early 1976 and promoted the now-legendary Manchester Lesser Free Trade Hall gigs. Devoto left in 1977, after the seminal ‘Spiral Scratch’ EP had been released, and created Magazine. Their first record was the
post-punk anthem ‘Shot By Both Sides’. Leading the vanguard of post-punk, Magazine’s sound focused on the double barrels of Dave Formula’s swirling keyboards and John McGeoch’s ahead-of-its-time innovative guitar work, underpinned by Barry Adamson’s pulsing yet deviously irregular basslines. Atop of which came Howard Devoto’s lyrics. Aloof, articulate, tersely ironic and about as pliable as a garden rake.

Too literary for the mass pop environment. Too poppy for the literary landscapes beyond it. Doomed to exist in that tiny, undersubscribed hinterland where artful wordplay meets the crunching riff. ‘Real Life’, ‘Secondhand Daylight’, ‘The Correct Use of Soap’ and ‘Magic, Murder and The Weather’ - four ground-breaking albums and then the band parted company, leaving behind an influential body of work to critical acclaim. A fifth studio album, ’No Thyself’, was released in 2011 following a 2009 reformation.

The album is repressed on white coloured vinyl for the first time in ‘Batch 1’ (‘Real Life’ ‘Secondhand Daylight’ and ‘The Correct Use Of Soap’). Each LP will feature unseen images and new notes from band members, compiled and curated by Rory Sullivan-Burke. Released later, ‘Batch 2’ consists of ‘Magic, Murder And The Weather’, ‘No Thyself’ and ‘Rays & Hail 1978-2011’.

TRACKLISTING:

1. Because You’re Frightened
2. Model Worker
3. I'm A Party
4. You Never Knew Me
5. Philadelphia
6. I Want To Burn Again
7. Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)
8. Sweetheart Contract
9. Stuck
10. A Song From Under The Floorboards