Magazine - The Correct Use Of Soap [White Colour Vinyl]

Format: Coloured Vinyl LP
Catalogue No.: INTGDS006LP
Barcode: 5400863165857
Release Date: 15 Nov 2024
Genre: Indie/Alternative

 ‘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.
 “Devoto, let’s just say, for the hell of it because the story has to start somewhere, with a bang, or a legendary punk gig, was the man who changed Manchester because he had an idea about what needed to happen at just the right time in just the right place.” - Paul Morley (The Observer, 2006)
 “Magazine are the most criminally underrated band in the past 25 years of British pop
in my view. Howard Devoto was a total pop genius” - Jeremy Vine (The Daily
Telegraph, 2007)
 “Saying that Devoto has a cult following is like saying that King Kong was a big hairy gorilla: it’s superfically accurate but doesn’t really convey the full scale picture.” - Charles Shaar Murray (NME, 1978) 
 “Mmm... not bad, for New Wave.” - Bob Harris (The Old Grey Whistle Test, 1978)
 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
Because You’re 
Frightened
Model Worker
I'm A Party
You Never Knew Me
Philadelphia
I Want To Burn Again
Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)
Sweetheart Contract
Stuck
A Song From Under The Floorboards

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