imported>Swinub at 14:13, 6 January 2025

2025-01-06T14:13:54Z

New page

{{for|the 2005 Jeb Loy Nichols album|Now Then (Jeb Loy Nichols album)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Infobox album
| name = Now Then...
| type = [[Album]]
| artist = [[Stiff Little Fingers]]
| cover = SLFNT.jpg
| alt =
| released = 1982
| recorded = July 2 – mid-August 1982
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = [[Rock music|Rock]], [[Punk music|punk]]
| length = 39:11
| label = [[Chrysalis Records|Chrysalis]]
| producer = [[Nick Tauber]]
| prev_title = [[Go for It (Stiff Little Fingers album)|Go for It]]
| prev_year = 1981
| next_title = [[All the Best (Stiff Little Fingers album)|All the Best]]
| next_year = 1983
}}
'''''Now Then...''''' is the fourth album by the Northern Irish band [[Stiff Little Fingers]], released in 1982.<ref>{{cite web |title=Stiff Little Fingers Biography by Mark Deming |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/stiff-little-fingers-mn0000937098/biography |website=AllMusic |access-date=9 July 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Gimarc |first1=George |title=Post Punk Diary: 1980-1982 |date=1997 |publisher=Macmillan |page=318}}</ref> It was produced by [[Nick Tauber]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Graham |first1=Bill |title=On this day in 1979: Stiff Little Fingers released their debut album Inflammable Material |journal=Hot Press |date=1982 |url=https://www.hotpress.com/music/on-this-day-in-1979-stiff-little-fingers-inflammable-material-22840548}}</ref> Some songs employed a horn section.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Rough Guide to Rock |date=2003 |publisher=Rough Guides |page=1014 |edition=3rd}}</ref> The band broke up after the release of the album.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Lentini |first1=Liza |title=What The World Needs Now: Stiff Little Fingers' Jake Burns on his incredible career and what the world needs now–more punk. |url=https://www.spin.com/2021/01/jake-burns-stiff-little-fingers-interview/ |website=Spin |access-date=9 July 2023 |date=January 1, 2021}}</ref>

==Critical reception==
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1Score = {{Rating|2.5|5}}<ref name="AM">{{cite web |title=Now Then... Review by Alex Ogg |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/now-then-mw0000111565 |website=AllMusic |access-date=9 July 2023}}</ref>
|rev2 = ''[[The Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]''
|rev2score = {{rating|2|5}}<ref>{{cite book |last1=Larkin |first1=Colin |title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |date=2011 |publisher=Omnibus Press}}</ref>
}}
''[[Trouser Press]]'' wrote that the album "continues the exploration of more accessible musical turf and is full of solid rock songs that pair energy and melody with clever guitar play."<ref>{{cite web |title=Stiff Little Fingers |url=https://trouserpress.com/reviews/stiff-little-fingers/ |website=Trouser Press |access-date=9 July 2023}}</ref>

[[AllMusic]] called the album an attempt "to become a full-fledged mainstream rock band," writing that "leader Jake Burns had always professed a high regard for [[Bruce Springsteen]] and [[Little Feat]] as much as his punk elders, and his lyrics here changed in tone rather than theme."<ref name=AM/>

==Track listing==
#"Falling Down" ([[Stiff Little Fingers|Fingers]], Gordon Ogilvie) – 3:19
#"Won't Be Told" (Fingers, Ogilvie) – 3:25
#"[[Love of the Common People (song)|Love of the Common People]]" (John Hurley, Ronnie Wilkins, arranged by Fingers) – 2:39
#"The Price of Admission" (Fingers, Ogilvie) – 3:22
#"Touch and Go" (Fingers, Ogilvie) – 3:22
#"Stands to Reason" (Fingers, Ogilvie) – 3:06
#"Bits of Kids" (Fingers, Ogilvie) – 3:40
#"Welcome to the Whole Week" (Fingers, Ogilvie) – 3:45
#"Big City Night" (Fingers, Ogilvie) – 3:55
#"Talkback" (Fingers, Ogilvie) – 2:48
#"Is That What You Fought the War For?" (Fingers, Ogilvie) – 3:55

The following tracks were included on the 2001 EMI re-release:
{{numbered list|start=12
|"Good for Nothing" (Fingers, Ogilvie) – 2:44
|"Listen" – (Fingers, Ogilvie) – 4:14
|"Sad Eyed People" (Fingers, Ogilvie) – 3:56
|"That's When Your Blood Bumps" (Fingers, Ogilvie) – 3:44
|"Two Guitars Clash" (Fingers, Ogilvie) – 4:28
|"[[Alan Parker (author)|Alan Parker]] Interviews Jake Burns about "Now Then..."" (Burns/Parker) – 19:40
}}

==Chart position==
{|class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!Chart (1982)
!Peak<br />position
|-
|style="text-align:center;" |[[United Kingdom]]<ref>{{cite book |last1=Thompson |first1=Dave |title=Alternative Rock |date=2000 |publisher=Miller Freeman Books |page=656}}</ref>
|style="text-align:center;" |24
|}

{|class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!Song
!Singles Chart (1982/83)
!Peak<br />position
|-
|style="text-align:center;" |"Bits of Kids"
|style="text-align:center;" |[[United Kingdom]]
|style="text-align:center;" |73
|-
|style="text-align:center;" |"Price of Admission"
|style="text-align:center;" |[[United Kingdom]]
|style="text-align:center;" |95

|}

==Personnel==
;Stiff Little Fingers
*[[Jake Burns]] – vocals, guitar, occasional keyboards
*[[Dolphin Taylor]] – drums, percussion, vocals, occasional keyboards
*[[Henry Cluney]] – guitar, vocals
*[[Ali McMordie]] – bass guitar
with:
*[[Dick Morrissey]], Jeff Daly, Martin Drover – horns on "Talkback"
;Technical
*[[Tim Friese-Greene]] – producer on "Talkback"
*Simon Hanhart – engineer
*Brian Cooke – artwork, photography

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{Stiff Little Fingers}}

{{Authority control}}

[[Category:Stiff Little Fingers albums]]
[[Category:1982 albums]]
[[Category:Chrysalis Records albums]]

Now Then... - Revision history

imported>Swinub at 14:13, 6 January 2025