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The Correct Use of Soap is the third album by UK-based post-punk band Magazine, released by Virgin Records in 1980. It marks a return to form of sorts to the more punkier riffs and faster rhythms of Real Life after their more experimental album Secondhand Daylight. As such, it contains some of Magazine's best-known and most popular songs, including the singles "A Song from Under the Floorboards" and "Sweetheart Contract" and their highly regarded cover of Sly & The Family Stone's "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)". Magazine would go on to release one more studio album, 1981's Magic, Murder and the Weather, but this album is generally regarded as the end of Magazine and Devoto's most productive and innovative period.
The single "A Song from Under the Floorboards" was featured on Rhino's box-set Left of the Dial: Dispatches from the 80s Underground, and has been covered many times in concert by fellow Mancunian Morrissey.
[edit] Track listing
- All songs by Barry Adamson/Howard Devoto/John Doyle/Dave Formula/John McGeoch, except where noted.
- "Because You're Frightened" – 3:54
- "Model Worker" – 2:51
- "I'm a Party" – 3:01
- "You Never Knew Me" – 5:23
- "Philadelphia" – 3:54
- "I Want to Burn Again" – 5:16
- "Thank You (Fallentinme Be Mice Elf Again)" – 3:48 (Sylvester Stewart)
- "Sweetheart Contract" – 3:18
- "Stuck" – 4:04
- "A Song from Under the Floorboards" – 4:07
[edit] Personnel
