Avoid Freud

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Avoid Freud
Avoid Freud cover
Studio album by Rough Trade
Released May 13, 1980
Recorded August – September 1980
Genre New Wave
Length 34:56
Label True North Records
Producer Gene Martynec
Rough Trade
Professional reviews
Rough Trade chronology
Rough Trade Live! Direct to Disc
(1976)		 Avoid Freud
(1980)		 For Those Who Think Young
(1981)

Avoid Freud is the debut album by Canadian New Wave band Rough Trade, released in 1980.

The album's most famous single is "High School Confidential", which was intensely controversial for its explicitly sexual lyrics, which include references to lesbianism.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "It's a Jungle" (Pope/Staples) – 3:17
  2. "High School Confidential" (Pope/Staples) – 3:26
  3. "Lie Back, Let Me Do Everything" (Pope/Staples) – 3:22
  4. "Physical Violence" (Pope/Staples) – 3:55
  5. "I Can't Take It" (Pope/Staples) – 3:42
  6. "What's the Furor About the Führer?" (Pope/Staples) – 3:22
  7. "Fashion Victim" (Pope/Staples) – 4:06
  8. "Emotional Blackmail" (Pope/Staples) – 2:42
  9. "Hostage" (Pope/Staples) – 3:38
  10. "Grade B Movie" (Pope/Staples) – 3:56

[edit] Credits

  • Carole Pope - Songwriter, lead vocals
  • Kevan Staples - Vocals, guitar, piano, synthesiser
  • David McMorrow - Vocals, piano, Rhodes, synthesisers
  • Terry Wilkins - Vocals, Fender fretless bass
  • Bucky Berger - Vocals, drums
  • Gene Martynec - Producer
  • Gary Gray - Engineer
  • David Taylor - Assistant engineer
  • George Marino - Mastering
  • Peter J. Moore - Remastering, restoration
  • Vicki Wickham - Direction

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