Swell Maps
A Trip To Marineville (LP)
FormatLPLabelRather Records, Rough TradeGenreExperimental
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condition (record/cover): VG+ / VG+ (tags on front and back and edges wear)
With original innersleeve. No 7" included.
Infinitely more aware than the average albums of the genre, "A Trip To Marineville" embodies the hidden lucidity behind the teenage English desire to smash the world at the end of the seventies, it is proof that those losers knew very well what it was they were trying to destroy. Far from being naive, the Swell Maps create the most avant-garde punk work, crooked and insane, sunken in the most cacophonous noise, crossed by continuous sound diversions that do not allow its center of gravity to settle.
Release notes
Tracks A1, A2, A4 to B5, C1, C2, D2 recorded at WMRS, Leamington Spa on 28-29/12/78 + 15&17/2/79 + 15-17/4/79. Track A3 recorded at Spaceward Sound, Cambridge on 14/9/77. Tracks B6 and D1 recorded in Phone's bedroom, Olton. Single sleeve with printed inner sleeves. Some early copies of the 7" sleeve were hand drawn by the band members. Single sleeve printed by Delga Press. Runouts are etched.
| A1 | H. S. Art | 2:21 | |
| A2 | Another Song | 1:43 | |
| A3 | Vertical Slum | 1:12 | |
| A4 | Spitfire Parade | 3:10 | |
| A5 | Harmony In Your Bathroom | 5:24 | |
| A6 | Don't Throw Ashtrays At Me | 1:16 | |
| A7 | Midget Submarines | 4:33 | |
| A8 | Bridge Head | 1:58 | |
| B1 | Full Moon In My Pocket | 1:30 | |
| B2 | Blam!! | 3:31 | |
| B3 | Full Moon (Reprise) | 1:21 | |
| B4 | Gunboats | 8:25 | |
| B5 | Adventuring Into Basketry | 7:28 | |
| B6 | My Lil' Shoppes 'Round The Corner | 0:44 | |
| C1 | Loin Of The Surf | 2:14 | |
| C2 | Doctor At Cake | 2:05 | |
| D1 | Steven Does | 1:45 | |
| D2 | Bronze & Baby Shoes | 3:43 |
- Epic
- Cover, Written-By (A6, A8, B1, B3, B5, C2)
- Jowe
- Cover [7"], Written-By (A3, A5, A8, B1, B5, C1, D2)
- Nikki
- Cover [Inner], Written-By (A1 to A4, A7, A8, B2, B4, B5, D1)
- John Rivers
- Engineer (A1, A2, A4 to B5, C1, C2, D2)
- EG
- Plated By
- Swell Maps
- Producer, Arranged By
- Biggles
- Written-By (A8, B5, C2)
- Golden
- Written-By (C2)
- Phones
- Written-By (A3, B1, B3, B5 to D2)
