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I'll Never Fall In Love Again

by Radioactive Sparrow

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1.
Boystman #1 01:54
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2.
Nietzschean Dance Nr 02:07
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When I Fall In Love 03:54
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4.
Crab Boy 09:40
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So Much Has Happened in the Last 20 Years 04:07
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You Drive Me Nothing Baby 03:29
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This Is Your Life 02:20
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You Bastard 04:13
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9.
Bon Soir 00:09
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10.
Hooch Now 04:26
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Sweet Melody 04:05
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12.
Christine, A Serenade 06:28
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Boystman #2 04:26
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14.
Methods of Disgusting 03:53
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15.
There Are Troubles On Your Mind (22 X La Vitesse Du Son) 03:33
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16.
Hundrud Five 04:36
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17.
Crab Boy Dub [Bonus Track] 06:30
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Picon Bière [Bonus Track] 03:36
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Empty People [Bonus Track] 06:05
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I’ll Never Fall In Love Again, Radioactive Sparrow’s 52nd album in their official catalogue, was an off-cuts tape (rather than a project undertaken as such). It was made up of tracks that didn’t get chosen for Spume along with a bunch of material the band recorded on their tour of France over Xmas and New Year 1989-90. The tour ended in disaster, which is to say that the van was in a head-on collision in the lanes of Wiltshire on a foggy January Sunday morning after the night boat from Le Havre to Southampton. It was Bill’s turn to drive and he’d managed to get lost trying to get from the south coast to the M4. The ensuing depression that the trio (Bargefoot, Gage, Stews) fell into accounts for the material on this record not being revisited until the summer of 1990 by which time they had already made their 51st album, Bush of Ages. The core of the trip involved the band staying in a farmhouse in the South of France with seven other people, the festive period devoted to getting pissed, playing darts and gigging at a local café (the Café de Sade in Lacoste), while casually bringing out the 4-track (a battery-op Tascam Porta-01) between bouts of Trivial Pursuit and black & white TV news reports on the fall of Romania’s state capitalist regime, and Ceaușescu’s execution being broadcast live. Thus many people appear in these tracks guesting on various instruments and vocals, including an American student, Paul Greenlaw, who’d come to the band’s Café de Sade show; Paul was a banjoist who ended up playing on a couple of Palace Brothers records. Live tracks from the tour ended up appearing on the live compilation, More Piss & Blood (album 50).

The stand-out track, in that there’s really nothing elese like it in the band’s entire output, is ‘Crab Boy’ which features the voice of sculptor Gabriel (credited Gabelli) Sobin. The three tracks at the end are ‘bonus’ tracks in so far as they were not included on the original tape, which was a C60.

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released January 31, 1990

Personnel:
Tony Gage
Heaving Stews
Bill Bargefoot
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Richard Bowers on 1 & 8
Gabelli Sobin on 4, 15, 16, 17, 18 & 19
Christophe ‘Christy’ Richard on 15, 16, 17, 18 & 19
John Lalor vocals on 5 & 7
Jean Louis Gauthier on 15, 16, 17 & 18
Esther Sobin on 9 & 16
And Introducing Paul Greenlaw on banjo

Recorded in Wales & France at the very end of the 80s and the very beginning of the 90s

Artwork by Tony Gage

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