Stop Those Songs, by V-Effect

Stop Those Songs

by V-Effect

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On Rift Records (RIFT 6, 1983), this was the only full-length release by the band.
these were "Manufactured and distributed by Rough Trade"
label typography by Chris Cutler
cover art and design by Anton van Dalen

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1.	Master/Slave 03:08	buy track
2.	Battle of Algiers 01:47	buy track
3.	Feet First 04:18	buy track
4.	New Condition 02:55	buy track
5.	Placebo #1 00:32	buy track
6.	Alley Oops 02:59	buy track
7.	Pollyanna 01:10	buy track
8.	Mysteries of the Organism 02:15	buy track
9.	Fast-Acting Placebo 00:34	buy track
10.	Lavaplatos 03:49	buy track
11.	A Tree Grows in Managua 03:02	buy track
12.	Boyce Life 02:55	buy track
13.	Wheat 02:59	buy track
14.	New Song (Old Story) 03:11	buy track
15.	Must Go 01:15	buy track
16.	They Can't Get It 03:07	buy track
17.	Placebo #3 00:47	buy track

about

The new digital tracks here were transferred and remastered from a vinyl copy by Michael Train.

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#9 on Robert Palmer's New York Times "Best Records of 1983" list ("The only first album on the list was by New York's inventive and committed jazz-funk-agitprop band V-Effect.") Palmer elsewhere said "V-Effect's songs frequently express the band's political commitment, but they are refreshingly free of hectoring and camp. The group shows exceptional ingenuity in the wild variety of moods and feelings it expresses, with what most musicians would consider a severely limiting instrumentation. The music has a terseness and lucidity, and a supple elasticity of rhythm and line, which one encounters more frequently in jazz than in music that is nominally rock."

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"...few bands anywhere make better rock and roll on the edge of artistic and political struggle. This may be because, as Zonzinsky likes to say, they're "leftist" rather than "political": their clarity of purpose helps them avoid the ingrown cacophony that their supposed comrades consider an improvement on programmatic oversimplification." -Robert Christgau

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"...mixes leftist sentiments with pushy, Latin-tinged rhythms. V-Effect’s album Stop Those Songs is one of the best sounding No Wave recordings, perhaps because the spare instrumentation— drums, bass, sax—encouraged a straightforward, uncluttered production." Stephen Anderson in _The Atlantic_, June '85

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"Exhilarating pulse-pounding art rock genius from one of this country's great overlooked bands. Musically, V-Effect were America's answer to Etron Fou Leloublan, creating convulsive sonic assemblages for sax, organ, bass and drums that consistently tumble and caper through lopsided curlicues of post-Magic Band structural irregularity. Lyrically, they're as overtly politicized as This Heat or The Art Bears and, for me at least, their work carries some of the same emotional charge to be found in both those units, despite their substantially different and far less dour aesthetic remit." - Mutant Sounds blog

credits

released October 7, 2022

All songs by V-Effect:
RICK BROWN, drums, glockenspiel, vocals
ANN RUPEL, bass, organ, vocals
D. ZONZINSKY, alto sax, vocals

Bits of guitar at crucial moments by Fred Frith.

1, 2, 6, 7, 12, 13 Recorded at OAO Studio, Brooklyn, N.Y. Martin Bisi, engineer.
3, 8, 10, 11, 14, 16 Recorded at Sunrise Studio, Kirchberg, Switzerland. Robert Vogel, engineer.
Other tracks recorded live in New York, West Germany, Switzerland and Czechoslovakia
Mixed by V-Effect, Fred Frith, Bisi and Vogel

Thanks to Steve Erickson for Alley Oops tape mix, Tristan Elwell for Artistic Endeavors, Daniel Waldner for cassette recording and broadening horizons.

Cover art and design by Anton van Dalen.

[21st Century THANK YOUs to Sue Garner, Che Chen, Dan Selzer, Michael Train, Chris Cochrane, Owen Gardner and (sorta?) Jason Willett]

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Bell System

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Parts and Labor

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Dear John

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Xmas Trips

Dec 2022
Stop Those Songs

Oct 2022
TAPE #1

Dec 2023

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