Sort Of
For a definition of the adverb "sort of", see the Wiktionary entry sort of.
| Sort Of | ||||
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| Studio album by Slapp Happy | ||||
| Released | 1972 | |||
| Recorded | May–June 1972, Wümme, Germany | |||
| Genre | Avant-rock | |||
| Length | 41:42 | |||
| Label | Polydor | |||
| Producer | Uwe Nettelbeck | |||
| Slapp Happy chronology | ||||
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| Singles from Sort Of | ||||
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [1] |
Sort Of is the debut album of the avant-rock band Slapp Happy. It was recorded in Wümme, West Germany in May and June 1972.
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 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Track listing | ||
| 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 1995 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
- ↑ Unterberger, Richie. "Sort of...Slapp Happy". AllMusic. Retrieved 2011-06-22.
External links
- Peter Blegvad Discography
- Sort Of. The Faust Pages
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