Deaf (album)

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Studio album by You've Got Foetus On Your Breath
Released September 1981
Recorded Lavender Sound, London (1982)
Genre Industrial
Length 56:08
Label Self Immolation
Producer(s) J. G. Thirlwell
Professional reviews
You've Got Foetus On Your Breath chronology
Wash It All Off
(1981)
Deaf
(1981)
Tell Me, What Is the Bane of Your Life
(1982)


Deaf, the debut album from J. G. Thirlwell's You've Got Foetus on Your Breath was released in 1981 on Thirlwell's own Self Immolation Records label. Thirsty Ear reissued the album as a CD in 1997 in the US. Both releases were limited editions: only 2,000 copies of the LP and 4,000 copies of the CD were produced.

The Deaf LP is Self Immolation #WOMB OYBL 1. The CD re-release is Ectopic Ents #ECT ENTS 012.

[edit] Track listing

All Songs by J. G. Thirlwell

  1. "New York or Bust" – 2:00
  2. "Is That a Line?" – 7:09
  3. "Why Can't It Happen to Me?" – 3:14
  4. "I Am Surrounded by Incompetence" – 4:52
  5. "What Have You Been Doing?" – 5:32
  6. "Today I Started Slogging Again" – 5:48
  7. "Harold MacMillan" – 3:35
  8. "Thank Heavens for Push Button Phones" – 4:26
  9. "Flashback" – 3:37
  10. "Negative Energy" – 15:55 CD ?:?? LP

The final track on the CD seems to approximate a locked groove, with the same few seconds of music repeated for the final 10 minutes.

[edit] Personnel and Production

  • J. G. Thirlwell (as You've Got Foetus On Your Breath) - Performance and production
  • Harlan Cockburn - Engineering

[edit] External links

  • Deaf at foetus.org