Vengeance - The Independent Story

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Vengeance - The Independent Story
Vengeance - The Independent Story cover
Studio album by New Model Army
Released 1984
Recorded Alaska Studios, London
Genre Rock, Post-punk
Length 76:34
Label Abstract
Producer Mond Cowie, New Model Army
New Model Army chronology
Vengeance - The Independent Story
(1984)		 No Rest for the Wicked
(1985)

Vengeance - The Independent Story, originally released in 1984 (see 1984 in music), is the debut album of British rock band New Model Army. Following the band playing their second single, "Great Expectations", on the Channel 4 program, The Tube, the album went in the UK Indie Chart at #1.[1]

Contents

[edit] Singles

The singles which are on the album are "Bittersweet", "Great Expectations" and "The Price".

[edit] Versions

The album was originally released in the UK in 1984 as an LP entitled Vengeance with the tracks "Christian Militia", "Notice Me", "Smalltown England", "A Liberal Education", "Vengeance", "Sex (The Black Angel)", "Running" and "Spirit of the Falklands".

The album was reissued as an LP again in 1987 with the added tracks "Great Expectations and "Waiting" and as a renamed CD (Vengeance - The Independent Story) with the added tracks "Bittersweet", "Betcha", "Tension", "Great Expectations", "Waiting", "The Price", "1984", "No Man's Land", "Great Expectations (The Peel Session)" and "Notice Me (The Peel Session)". The song "Running" on the original album was also renamed to "Running in the Rain" for this and subsequent reissues.

In 1997 the CD version was packaged together with Radio Sessions '83-'84 (1988) as a limited edition double CD with a picture disc and titled Small Town England.

In 2002 the album was again reissued with the three different remixes of "Vengeance" as the bonus tracks: "Vengeance (Right to Silence Remix)", "Vengeance (Rough Justice Remix)" and "Vengeance (Right to Protest Remix)".

[edit] Track listing

All tracks written by Justin Sullivan and Stuart Morrow except where otherwise noted.

  1. "Bittersweet" – 3:06
  2. "Betcha" – 2:30
  3. "Tension" – 2:11
  4. "Great Expectations" – 3:12
  5. "Waiting" – 3:27
  6. "Christian Militia" – 3:25
  7. "Notice Me" – 2:36
  8. "Smalltown England" – 3:19
  9. "A Liberal Education" – 5:27
  10. "Vengeance" – 4:06
  11. "Sex (The Black Angel)" – 3:25
  12. "Running in the Rain" (Robert Heaton) – 3:52
  13. "Spirit of the Falklands" – 3:43
  14. "The Price" – 3:25
  15. "1984" – 3:16
  16. "No Man's Land" – 3:31
  17. "Great Expectations" (The Peel Session) – 3:02
  18. "Notice Me" (The Peel Session) – 2:38
  19. "Vengeance (Right to Silence Remix)" – 3:58
  20. "Vengeance (Rough Justice Remix)" – 7:04
  21. "Vengeance (Right to Protest Remix)" – 5:21

[edit] Personnel

  • Production:
  • Mond Cowie – producer on "Christian Militia", "Notice Me", "Smalltown England", "A Liberal Education", "Vengeance", "Sex (The Black Angel)", "Running" and "Spririt of the Falklands"
  • New Model Army – producer on all other tracks
  • Ian O'Higgins – engineer
  • Joolz – artwork (front cover)

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ New Model Army. Vengeance - The Independent Story 1984. newmodelarmy.org. Retrieved on 2007-08-01.

[edit] References