THE RAINCOATS "THE RAINCOATS" 1979 ROUGH TRADE ROUGH 3-UNPLAYED EX/EX RARE PRESS

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ARTIST- THE RAINCOATS

TITLE- “THE RAINCOATS” 1ST PRESSING

TRACK LISTING- SEE BELOW

YEAR OF RELEASE- 1979

LABEL- ROUGH TRADE RECORDS

CAT.#- ROUGH 3

RECORD CONDITION- THIS IS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION, SOUNDS PERFECT, NICE SHINEY BLACK LUSTER TO THE VINYL BOTH LABELS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION TOO.

JACKET CONDITION- JACKET IS IN EXCELLENT/NM CONDITION.

MORE INFO- THIS ALBUM IS CURRENTLY OUT OF PRINT. ORIGINAL 1ST PRESSING.

MORE INFO ON THE ARTIST & RELEASE-

The Raincoats are a British post-punk band. Ana da Silva (vocals, guitar) and Gina Birch (vocals, bass) formed the group in 1977 while they were students at Hornsey College of Art, London, England.

1977-1993

The line-up included Ross Crighton on guitar and Nick Turner on drums for the band's first gig on 9 November 1977. Kate Korus, from The Slits and later The Mo-dettes, joined briefly but was replaced by Jeremie Frank. Nick Turner left to form The Barracudas and Richard Dudanski (ex The 101ers and later Public Image Ltd.) sat in on drums and film maker Patrick Keiller replaced Jeremie Frank on guitar.

Late in 1978, The Raincoats became an all female band as they were joined by The Slits' ex-drummer Palmolive and the classically trained violinist Vicky Aspinall,[3] making their live debut at Acklam Hall in London on 4 January 1979. Managed by Shirley O'Loughlin, the band went on their first UK tour with Swiss female band Kleenex, in May 1979 after Rough Trade Records released their first single, "Fairytale in the Supermarket"/ "In Love"/ "Adventures Close to Home". Johnny Rotten was an early admirer of the band, and later stated that: "The Raincoats offered a completely different way of doing things, as did X-Ray Spex and all the books about punk have failed to realise that these women were involved for no other reason than that they were good and original." The Raincoats' distinctly non-commercial sound did not appeal to everyone; after witnessing an early performance by the band, Danny Baker remarked that: "They are so bad that every time a waiter drops a tray we'd all get up and dance."

Rough Trade released the band's self-titled debut album in November 1979 with much acclaim from the press. Palmolive had left the band in September shortly before The Raincoats came out, and teenager Ingrid Weiss joined the band on drums. The Raincoats' second album Odyshape was released in 1981 and features Weiss and contributions from Robert Wyatt, This Heat's Charles Hayward and Richard Dudanski. The Raincoats employed a diverse selection of cheap second-hand instruments such as the balophone, kalimba and gamelan on Odyshape; the album incorporates British folk, dub bass-lines, polyrhythmic percussion and elements of free jazz amongst other world music influences; its eclectic mix of musical genres has been described as one of the "great lost moments of women-in-rock."

"The basic theme in rock'n'roll is what goes on between men and women...Rock'n'roll is based on black music. And it's based in the exclusion of women and the ghettoization of blacks. Which is why we want to put a bit of distance between what we do and the rock'n'roll tradition." — The Raincoats interviewed by Greil Marcus

In December 1982 The Raincoats recorded a live album at The Kitchen arts space in New York. The Kitchen Tapes was released on cassette by ROIR in 1983.

The Raincoats recorded Moving in 1984. Tired of constant touring and "pulling in different musical directions" the band members began work on solo projects shortly after the album's release. Gina Birch and Vicky Aspinall formed Dorothy and Ana da Silva worked with choreographer Gaby Agis on a series of dance projects and formed Roseland with Charles Hayward.

In 1992 Kurt Cobain of Nirvana went into the Rough Trade Shop in Talbot Road, London in search of a new copy of The Raincoats and Jude Crighton sent him round the corner to see Ana da Silva at her cousin's antique shop. Cobain wrote passionately about this meeting in the liner notes of Nirvana's Incesticide album. In late 1993 Rough Trade and DGC Records released the three albums with liner notes by Cobain and Kim Gordon.

"I don't really know anything about The Raincoats except that they recorded some music that has affected me so much that, whenever I hear it I'm reminded of a particular time in my life when I was (shall we say) extremely unhappy, lonely, and bored. If it weren't for the luxury of putting that scratchy copy of The Raincoats' first record, I would have had very few moments of peace. I suppose I could have researched a bit of history about the band but I feel it's more important to delineated the way I feel and how they sound. When I listen to The Raincoats I feel as if I'm a stowaway in an attic, violating and in the dark. Rather than listening to them I feel like I'm listening in on them. We're together in the same old house and I have to be completely still or they will hear me spying from above and, if I get caught - everything will be ruined because it's their thing." — Cobain's liner notes for The Raincoats

"I loved the Slits because of their boldness and that they actually had commercial songs, but it was The Raincoats I related to most. They seemed like ordinary people playing extraordinary music. They had enough confidence to be vulnerable and to be themselves without having to take on the mantle of male rock/punk rock aggression...or the typical female as sex symbol avec irony or sensationalism."

The Raincoats is the debut studio album by English rock band The Raincoats. It was released in 1979 on Rough Trade Records. The album is perhaps best known for its off-kilter cover of "Lola" by The Kinks. The album's seventh track, "The Void", was notably covered by Hole in 1994.

In May 2010 the band performed the album in its entirety in London.

Release

The Raincoats was re-released by Rough Trade in 1994, with liner notes by Kurt Cobain. The album was again re-released on 9 November 2009 on vinyl with a free mp3 download and an extra track, "Fairytale in the Supermarket", as well as a special edition bonus CD, including live footage from 1977 and 1979 and a video of "Fairytale in the Supermarket" on We ThRee, the band's own label in the UK and on the Kill Rock Stars label in the USA.

Track listing

All songs written by The Raincoats, except where noted.

Side A

1. "No Side to Fall In" – 1:47
2. "Adventures Close to Home" – 1:54 (Viv Albertine, Tessa Pollitt, Arianne Forster, Paloma Romero)
3. "Off Duty Trip" – 3:14
4. "Black and White" – 2:29
5. "Lola" (Ray Davies) – 4:03

Side B

1. "The Void" – 3:51
2. "Life on the Line" – 4:22 (lyrics by Ross Crighton and The Raincoats)
3. "You're a Million" – 3:53
4. "In Love" – 3:05
5. "No Looking" – 3:05 (lyrics translated and adapted by The Raincoats from a poem by Jacques Prévert)

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