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01. THE 49 AMERICANS - Doo-bee-doo-bee
02. THE 49 AMERICANS - It Is and It Is
03. THE 49 AMERICANS - Edible
04. THE 49 AMERICANS - Verbal Culture
05. THE 49 AMERICANS - Liberty
06. THE 49 AMERICANS - We Know Nonsense
07. THE 49 AMERICANS - Tendency to Lie
08. THE 49 AMERICANS - Glimpse Go By
09. THE 49 AMERICANS - It's Time
10. THE 49 AMERICANS - Mon Nuisance
11. THE 49 AMERICANS - Taste
12. THE 49 AMERICANS - Imagination
13. THE 49 AMERICANS - Do
14. THE 49 AMERICANS - I Be Later
15. THE 49 AMERICANS - Move Around All Day
16. THE 49 AMERICANS - Free Trade
17. THE 49 AMERICANS - Mummy Was a Record Player
18. THE 49 AMERICANS - Beat Up Russians
19. THE 49 AMERICANS - That Man
20. THE 49 AMERICANS - Involved in Local Chaos
21. THE 49 AMERICANS - Doubt
22. THE 49 AMERICANS - Edible
23. THE 49 AMERICANS - Should Be More Ideal
24. THE 49 AMERICANS - All the Fun
25. THE 49 AMERICANS - Sounds Like Ska
26. THE 49 AMERICANS - Architecture Stops
27. THE 49 AMERICANS - Don't Sing the Blues
28. THE 49 AMERICANS - Heritage
29. THE 49 AMERICANS - American Wonder Song
30. THE 49 AMERICANS - Newton's Laws
31. THE 49 AMERICANS - What We Want
32. THE 49 AMERICANS - Gail Was a Victim
33. THE 49 AMERICANS - Move Around All Day
34. THE 49 AMERICANS - Is This Rock and Roll?
35. THE 49 AMERICANS - One Germ
36. THE 49 AMERICANS - Pigs
37. THE 49 AMERICANS - The Uncertainty Principle
38. THE 49 AMERICANS - Architecture Stops
39. THE 49 AMERICANS - Missionaries
40. THE 49 AMERICANS - Stupid Boy
ARTIST
TITLE
We Know Nonsense
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
STAUB 123CD STAUB 123CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
4/16/2013

Long-awaited reissue of the second full-length album from 1982 by late 1970s/early 1980s UK DIY super-group The 49 Americans. The main instigator behind The 49 Americans was Andrew "Giblet" Brenner, who assembled a loose, disparate group of musical/non-musical practitioners as an experiment in equality and democracy. This democracy included David Toop, Steve Beresford, Max Eastley, Lol Coxhill and Peter Cusack (coming out of the anything goes improv scene), Nag And Bendle of The Door And The Window, Viv Albertine of the Slits, Vivien Goldman, Giblet's mum, and many more. The CD version comes as a lovingly-assembled career-spanning compilation. It features the complete original We Know Nonsense album as well as 23 (!) bonus tracks taken from The 49 Americans' first album E Pluribus Unum (1980) and their 7" The 14-Track Single (1979). A 20-page booklet contains "The Incompleteable Story of The 49 Americans." The Wire listed We Know Nonsense in their legendary list of "100 Records That Set The World On Fire (While No One Was Listening) + Extra 30 Records": "Not many of those visiting the London Musicians' Collective venue in Camden Town during the late 1970s, and hearing the free improvisers active therein, would have conceived the idea of recording an album of happy-go-lucky pop songs with them. But that's exactly what American expat Giblet (alias Andrew Brenner) set out to do, and so here are 17 doo-wop, disco and samba ditties produced and co-written by David Toop and Steve Beresford. Musicians include Lol Coxhill, Peter Cusack, Max Eastley, Viv Albertine (of The Slits), and Etta and Eddy Saunders."