Buy (album)

Buy
Studio album by James Chance & The Contortions
Released 1979
Recorded 1978
Genre Punk jazz, no wave, free funk
Label ZE
Producer James Chance
James Chance & The Contortions chronology
Buy
(1979)		 Off White
(1979)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
All About Jazz (?)[1]
Allmusic [2]
Piero Scaruffi [3]

Buy is a 1979 album by James Chance and the Contortions released under the name Contortions. Buy was Contortions' debut album, originally released by the indie label ZE, while at the same time the album Off White under the alias of James White, was also released.[4]

Track listing

All tracks by James Chance

  1. "Design to Kill" - 2:47
  2. "My Infatuation" - 2:20
  3. "I Don't Want to Be Happy" - 3:21
  4. "Anesthetic" - 3:52
  5. "Contort Yourself" - 4:23
  6. "Throw Me Away" - 2:43
  7. "Roving Eye" - 3:09
  8. "Twice Removed" - 3:03
  9. "Bedroom Athlete" - 4:15

Bonus tracks recorded at CBGB's, Spring, 1978

  1. "Throw Me Away" (Live) (3:04)
  2. "Twice Removed" (Live) (3:12)
  3. "Jailhouse Rock" (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller) (Live) (3:23)

Personnel

Notes

  1. ^ All About Jazz review
  2. ^ Allmusic review
  3. ^ Piero Scaruffi review
  4. ^ Skip Jansen, Buy review at Allmovie; last accessed January 1, 2008.