Sort Of
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| Sort Of | ||||
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| Studio album by Slapp Happy | ||||
| Released | 1972 | |||
| Recorded | May–June 1972 Wümme, Bremen, Germany |
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| Genre | Avant-rock | |||
| Length | 41:42 | |||
| Label | Polydor | |||
| Producer | Uwe Nettelbeck | |||
| Slapp Happy chronology | ||||
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| Singles from Sort Of | ||||
| Professional ratings | |
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| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [1] |
Sort Of is the debut studio album by the avant-rock band Slapp Happy. It was recorded in Wümme, Bremen, Germany in May and June 1972 with Faust as their backing band, and released on LP by Polydor Records in 1972. In 1980 Recommended Records released a limited edition of Sort Of on LP, and the album was reissued on CD by Blueprint Records in 1999 with one bonus track.
Track listing
All titles written by Peter Blegvad and Anthony Moore.
| Side 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| No. | Title | Length |
| 1. | "Just a Conversation" | 4:02 |
| 2. | "Paradise Express" | 2:40 |
| 3. | "I Got Evil" | 2:30 |
| 4. | "Little Girl's World" | 3:25 |
| 5. | "Tutankhamun" | 2:17 |
| 6. | "Mono Plane" | 6:50 |
| Side 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| No. | Title | Length |
| 7. | "Blue Flower" | 5:10 |
| 8. | "I'm All Alone" | 2:30 |
| 9. | "Who's Gonna Help Me Now?" | 2:25 |
| 10. | "Small Hands of Stone" | 4:38 |
| 11. | "Sort Of" | 2:15 |
| 12. | "Heading for Kyoto" | 3:00 |
| CD re-issue bonus tracks | ||
|---|---|---|
| No. | Title | Length |
| 13. | "Jumping Jonah" | 3:03 |
Personnel
- Peter Blegvad – guitar, saxophone, vocals
- Dagmar Krause (credited as "Daggi") – vocals, tambourine, piano, woodblock
- Anthony Moore – guitar, keyboards, vocals
- Gunther Wüsthoff – saxophone on "Paradise Express" and "I'm All Alone"
- Werner "Zappi" Diermaier – drums
- Jean-Hervé Péron – bass guitar
- Gunther, Zappi, and Jean recorded through courtesy of Faust
- Engineered by Kurt Graupner
- Album design and cover by David Larcher
CD releases
Sort Of was released on CD by Blueprint Records in 1999 with an extra track (from the B-side of their single "Just a Conversation"):
- "Jumpin' Jonah'" (Moore/Blegvad) – the CD was mastered from a vinyl copy as the master tapes had been lost
The same master was also issued in Japan with an additional 3" CD single:
- "Alcohol" (Blegvad)
References
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External links
- Peter Blegvad Discography
- Sort Of. The Faust Pages
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