Fabrique
"Height of Fashion" redirects here. For the racehorse, see Height of Fashion (horse).
Fabrique | ||||
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Studio album by Fashion | ||||
Released | 1982 | |||
Genre | New Romantic, new wave, synthpop | |||
Label | Arista | |||
Producer | Zeus B. Held | |||
Fashion chronology | ||||
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Allmusic | [1] |
Fabrique was Fashion's 1982 second album. It was produced by Zeus B. Held. The album included the following UK hit singles: "Streetplayer (Mechanik)" which reached No. 46 in April 1982 and "Love Shadow", which made No. 51 in August of the same year. The album itself made #10 in the charts, spending 16 weeks on the top 100. The track "Whitestuff" was featured in the television show Miami Vice's two hour season 2 opener, "Prodigal Son".
The album was re-released with additional material in 2004 as The Height Of Fashion.
Track listing
- "Move On"
- "Love Shadow"
- "Streetplayer - Mechanik"
- "Dressed to Kill"
- "You Only Left Your Picture"
- "Something in Your Picture" (De Harriss/Zeus B Held)
- "It's Alright"
- "Whitestuff (Short Cut)" (De Harriss/Zeus B Held)
- "Do You Wanna Make Love"
- "Slow Blue"
- "Mutant Move" *
- "Love Shadow (Smokey Dialogue)" *
- "Street Mechanik" *
- "Do You Wanna Make Love (at – 5:00 am?)" *
- "You Only Left Your Picture (Reggae Reprise)" *
(Tracks marked with an asterisk (*) are bonus tracks on The Height of Fashion)
'Double Play' cassette (Arista Canada ATC6604 (c)1982) contains all the above plus:
- "Dressed to Kill Double Dub"
- "Something in Your Picture (Alternative Playback)"
- "Whitestuff (The Unfinished)"
All songs written by De Harriss unless noted
Personnel
- De Harriss - vocals, guitar
- Mulligan - synthesizer, vocals
- Marlon Recchi - bass guitar, vocals
- Dik Davis - drums and percussion, vocals
- Zeus B. Held—additional keyboards, engineer
- Gina Kikoine—vox (track 2)
- Pete Willman—base clavinet (track 2)
- Nick Froome—mixing engineer
- Christian Gence—engineer
- Chris Lester—engineer
- Jean-Pierre Massiera—engineer
- Jean-Marc Meredith—engineer
- Steve Robert—engineer
- Martin Homberg—engineer
- Paddy Eckersley—front foto
- David Bailey—back foto
- David Shortt—design control
- Thomi Wroblewski—front foto tinting