Listen Now

Listen Now
Studio album by 801
Released 23 September 1977
Recorded 1977
Genre Experimental rock, Art rock, Progressive rock
Length 45:57 (LP)
54:03 (2000 Virgin CD version)
Label Expression, Polydor
Producer 801
801 chronology

801 Live
(1976)		 Listen Now
(1977)		 801 Manchester
(1997)

Listen Now is the second album and debut studio album by 801, whose live debut was released in November 1976. In 1977, hoping to capitalise on the success of 801 Live, the band recorded and released a studio album with additional collaborating musicians including Tim Finn of Split Enz. The album personnel relies much on the help of session musicians, and there has been a change of personnel. Only Phil Manzanera and Bill MacCormick remain important members of the band, while Francis Monkman, Simon Phillips and Eno are treated as sidekicks. Lloyd Watson left the project altogether. Vocal duties were shared by Simon Ainley and MacCormick. The album was first rereleased on CD by EG Records without bonus tracks and in 2000 by Virgin with three tracks previously unavailable. The "Flight 19" b-side "Car Rhumba" was rereleased on the CD version of Phil Manzanera's Diamond Head as "Carhumba". One track, "Rude Awakening", was a leftover from the original session, while the remaining two tracks ("Blue Gray Uniform" and "Remote Control") are demos recorded at PLS studios. "Remote Control" was re-recorded and ended up on Manzanera's 1978 album K-Scope.

Track listing

1977 LP track listing

Side One

  1. "Listen Now" (Bill MacCormick, Ian MacCormick, Phil Manzanera) - 7:56
  2. "Flight 19" (Ian MacCormick, Manzanera) - 5:33
  3. "Island" (Manzanera) - 5:20
  4. "Law and Order" (Bill MacCormick, Manzanera) - 4:06

Side Two

  1. "¿Que?" (Manzanera) - 1:18
  2. "City of Light" (Bill MacCormick, Manzanera) - 7:09
  3. "Initial Speed" (Manzanera) - 4:44
  4. "Postcard Love" (Bill MacCormick, Manzanera) - 4:34
  5. "That Falling Feeling" (Ian MacCormick, Manzanera) - 5:15

2000 Virgin CD version

  1. "Listen Now" (Bill MacCormick, Ian MacCormick, Phil Manzanera) - 7:57
  2. "Flight 19" (Ian MacCormick, Manzanera) - 5:28
  3. "Island" (Manzanera) - 5:18
  4. "Law and Order" (Bill MacCormick, Manzanera) - 4:07
  5. "Rude Awakening" (Manzanera) - 1:10
  6. "¿Que?" (Manzanera) - 1:18
  7. "City of Light" (Bill MacCormick, Manzanera) - 7:09
  8. "Initial Speed" (Manzanera) - 4:44
  9. "Postcard Love" (Bill MacCormick, Manzanera) - 4:34
  10. "That Falling Feeling" (Ian MacCormick, Manzanera) - 5:15
  11. "Blue Gray Uniform" (Peter Wheeler) - 2:54
  12. "Remote Control" (Ian MacCormick) - 4:15

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