From the Tea-rooms of Mars ....

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From the Tea-rooms of Mars ....
Landscape - From The Tea-rooms Of Mars album cover.jpg
Studio album by Landscape
Released February 1981
Recorded Mid 1980
("European Man" Late 1979/Early 1980)
Genre Synthpop
Electronic dance
Length 43:40
Label RCA
Producer Landscape
Colin Thurston and Landscape
Landscape chronology
Landscape
(1979)Landscape1979
From the Tea-rooms of Mars ....
(1981)
Manhattan Boogie-Woogie
(1982)Manhattan Boogie-Woogie1982
Singles from From the Tea-rooms of Mars ....
  1. "European Man"
    Released: 1980
  2. "Einstein A Go-Go"
    Released: 1981
  3. "Norman Bates"
    Released: 1981
  4. "European Man (Reissue)"
    Released: 1981
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 4.5/5 stars [1]

From the Tea-rooms of Mars .... (fully titled: From the Tea-rooms of Mars .... to the Hell-holes of Uranus) is the second album from Landscape and was released in 1981. The album contains the band's only UK chart hits: "Einstein A Go-Go" which reached No. 5 in February 1981 and "Norman Bates," which reached No. 40 in May of the same year.

The album was reissued in 1992 on the Mau Mau Records label. This CD also includes Landscape's first album, Landscape. The album was reissued again in 2002 on the Cherry Red Records label.[2]

Track listing

LP: RCA LP AFL1-5003

From the Tea-rooms of Mars ....
No. Title Writer(s) Sub-title Length
1. "European Man"   Richard James Burgess, Landscape   4:22
2. "Shake the West Awake"   Landscape   3:24
3. "Computer Person"   Peter Thoms, Landscape   2:59
4. "Alpine Tragedy"/"Sisters"   Christopher Heaton, Landscape/John Walters, Burgess, Landscape   4:44
5. "Face of the 80's"   Burgess, Walters, Landscape   3:26
6. "New Religion"   Heaton, Burgess, Landscape   3:13
.... to the Hell-holes of Uranus
No. Title Writer(s) Sub-title Length
1. "Einstein A Go-Go"   Walters, Burgess, Landscape   2:59
2. "Norman Bates"   Walters, Landscape   5:36
3. "The Doll's House"   Heaton, Burgess, Landscape   5:23
4. "From the Tea-rooms of Mars .... to the Hell-holes of Uranus"     i. "Beguine" (Burgess, Walters, Landscape) – 2:43

ii. "Mambo" (Thoms, Heaton, Landscape) – 2:22

iii. "Tango" (Walters, Burgess, Landscape) – 2:29
7:34

1992 Mau Mau Records CD: MAU CD 618

2002 Cherry Red Records CD: CDMRED 209

No. Title Writer(s) Sub-title Length
1. "European Man"   Richard James Burgess, Landscape   4:23
2. "Shake the West Awake"   Landscape   3:26
3. "Computer Person"   Peter Thoms, Landscape   3:00
4. "Alpine Tragedy"/"Sisters"   Christopher Heaton, Landscape/John Walters, Burgess, Landscape   4:46
5. "Face of the 80's"   Burgess, Walters, Landscape   3:29
6. "New Religion"   Heaton, Burgess, Landscape   3:14
7. "Einstein A Go-Go"   Walters, Burgess, Landscape   3:26
8. "Norman Bates"   Walters, Landscape   5:07
9. "The Doll's House"   Heaton, Burgess, Landscape   5:19
10. "From the Tea-rooms of Mars .... to the Hell-holes of Uranus"     i. "Beguine" (Burgess, Walters, Landscape) – 2:49

ii. "Mambo" (Thoms, Heaton, Landscape) – 2:20

iii. "Tango" (Walters, Burgess, Landscape) – 2:32
7:41
11. "Eastern Girls"   Burgess, Heaton, Andy Pask, Thoms, Walters   3:16
12. "It's Not My Real Name"   Burgess, Heaton, Pask, Thoms, Walters   5:24
13. "So Good, So Pure, So Kind"   Burgess, Walters, BPW   4:26
14. "You Know How to Hurt Me"   Burgess, Walters, BPW   6:51

Personnel

Production

  • Producer: Landscape
  • "European Man" produced by Colin Thurston and Landscape
  • Engineered by: John Etchells at JAM
    John Hudson and Brian Tench at Mayfair Sound
    Hugh Padgham at the Town House
    Andy Jackson, Peter Walsh, Rafe McKenna and Peter Smith at Utopia
    Steve Rance and Graeme Jackson at Nova Suite
    Rik Walton at Workhouse
    Dave Hunt at Berry Street
    David Baker at Odyssey
    Colin Thurston at Red Bus
    Landscape at Southern Studios

Audio excerpts

References

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