Avoid Freud
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Avoid Freud is the second album by Canadian new wave band Rough Trade, released in 1980 (True North TN-43 in Canada, Stiff America USE 14 in the U.S., CBS 84952 in The Netherlands).[1] It placed at least as high as #19 on the Canadian RPM Top Albums Chart on March 14, 1981. (Inferred from archive listing for following week.)[2] The album was certified gold in Canada (50,000 units) by the CRIA on March 1, 1981, then advanced to platinum certification (100,000 units) by June of the same year.[3]
The first single released from the album was the controversial "What's The Furor About The Führer?" b/w "Fashion Victim" (True North TN4-157),[1] the latter track becoming the larger hit, reaching #25 in Canada on the National Top 50 Singles Chart on February 7, 1981[4] and #3 on the RPM CANCON Chart the following week.[5] The album's most famous single, however, is "High School Confidential" (b/w "Grade B Movie", True North TN4-159),[1] which was intensely controversial for its explicitly sexual lyrics, which include references to lesbianism. The influential Toronto radio station CHUM-FM paid for the band to record a cleaned-up version that avoided the line, "She makes me cream my jeans when she comes my way."[6] It reached #1 on the RPM CANCON Chart and #12 on the National Top 50 Chart on June 20 of the same year.[7]
Track listing
Personnel
- Carole Pope - lead vocals
- Kevan Staples - vocals, guitar, piano, synthesiser
- David McMorrow - vocals, piano, Rhodes, synthesisers
- Terry Wilkins - vocals, Fender fretless bass
- Bucky Berger - vocals, drums
- Gene Martynec - producer
- Gary Gray - engineer
- David Taylor - assistant engineer
- George Marino - mastering
- Peter J. Moore - remastering, restoration
- Vicki Wickham - direction
References
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- ↑ a b c Rough Trade Discography. Laventure.net (1981-11-06). Retrieved on 2010-11-11.
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