Songs of Praise (The Adicts album)

Songs of Praise
Studio album by The Adicts
Released 1981
Genre Punk rock
Label Dwed Wecords
The Adicts chronology

Lunch with The Adicts
(1979)		 Songs of Praise
(1981)		 Sound of Music
(1982)
The cover of the original Dwed Wecords release

Songs of Praise is the debut studio album by The Adicts. It was originally released in 1981 on Dwed Wecords and was rereleased a year later by Fall Out Records. When the album was reissued on CD by Cleopatra Records in 1993, it included two bonus tracks which came from the Bar Room Bop EP. In 2008, the album was rerecorded by the band and released as the 25th Anniversary Edition.

Track listing

  1. "England"
  2. "Hurt"
  3. "Just Like Me"
  4. "Tango"
  5. "Telepathic People"
  6. "Mary Whitehouse"
  7. "Distortion"
  8. "Get Adicted"
  9. "Viva la Revolution"
  10. "Calling Calling"
  11. "In the Background"
  12. "Dynasty"
  13. "Peculiar Music"
  14. "Numbers"
  15. "Sensitive"
  16. "Songs of Praise"

1993 Cleopatra bonus tracks

  1. "Sound of Music"
  2. "Who Spilt My Beer?"

Personnel

The Adicts

Release history

Region Date Label Format Catalog Notes
UK 1981 Dwed Wecords LP SMT-008
UK 1982 Fall Out Records LP FALL LP 006
UK 1993 Fall Out Records CD FALL CD 006
US 1993 Cleopatra Records CD CLEO 2481-2 With two bonus tracks
Europe 2008 People Like You Records CD/LP Prison 161
Europe 2008 People Like You Records CD/LP Prison 162 25th Anniversary Edition (re-recorded)
Europe 2008 People Like You Records CD Prison 163 Ultimate Edition, with original and 25th Anniversary Edition versions of the album and a DVD