The Correct Use of Soap
Occupation
- Vocals: Howard Devoto
- Guitar: John McGeoch
- Bass: Barry Adamson
- Drums: John Doyle
- Keyboard: Dave Formula
The Correct Use of Soap is the third album by the British post-punk band Magazine. The album was released in April 1980 by Virgin Records.
Genesis
Magazines began after the tour for the previous album Secondhand Daylight 1980 with a Peel session. To set this appearance were up to that time unreleased songs Look What Fear has done to my body, Twenty Years Ago, A Song From Under the Floorboards and Model Worker. Three of these titles were later used for the album in the studio, Look What Fear has done to my body was recorded on the album titled Because You're Frightened.
Initially, the band wanted to release only three singles in quick succession to generate attention after the streaky reviews for the last album. The Sly & the Family Stone Cover Thank You ( Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin ) Already in June 1979 with Hannett, who had already produced with Devoto the Buzzcocks Spiral Scratch EP, recorded. The other nine tracks, the band played in January and February in various studios in London. The mixing was carried out in the Britannia Road Studion in which Hannett after the Mix for The Correct Use of Soap for Joy Division album Closer produced. The album title refers to a line from the song Twenty Years Ago back: "Twenty years ago I used your soap".
A Song From Under the Floorboards was published in February 1980 Twenty Years Ago on the B - side as a single, but missed the entry into the UK Top 40 Thank You ( Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin ) with The Book as a B- side followed a month later. The third single Upside Down was released with a produced by Hannett in June 1979 remake of The contained on the previous album Light Pours out of Me as a B-side.
John McGeoch left after the album's release the band in July 1980 and joined Siouxsie and the Banshees on. Dave Formula, Barry Adamson and McGeoch were involved in the recording of the debut album of Studio Visage project. Formula and Adamson were temporarily engaged in both bands. For an album world tour Magazine undertook the former guitarist of the band Ultravox, Robin Simon.
Title list
The songs were composed by Magazine, unless otherwise indicated. The texts wrote Howard Devoto.
In a 2007 remastered edition, the title is not used on the album of singles from the time of release of the album are also included:
Vinyl Cover
The cover design took over the British graphic designer Malcolm Garrett, a fellow student of Peter Saville at the Polytechnic University in Manchester and founder and director of the company Assorted Images. Garrett and his firm designed numerous record covers, among other things, for the successful in the 1980s, Simple Minds, Duran Duran and Peter Gabriel.
Publication and chart success
Virgin Records released the album in April 1980. The album debuted at number 28 in early May in the British albums charts, but held only 4 weeks.
In Canada, the album by PolyGram under the title "An Alternative Use of Soap " was released with an alternate order of the tracks. Instead of the song model worker re-recording of The Light Pours out of Me was used for this issue.
Reception
The music press was überwiedgend positive reviews. In particular, for the British music press, even "The Correct Use of Soap " as the key album of magazines. The British NME saw in the album " a lively consideration of a mind that is to analysis and stripping of inhibitions synonymously in the sensation - an event which deserves careful attention. " ( " The album [is ] a vivid examination of a mind in which sensation is Synonymous with analysis and the shedding of inhibitions -. at event which merits meticulous attention " The British journal sounds keeps the album " a great record, a rounded brilliantly and complete compilation of songs " (" a magnificent record, a brilliantly rounded and complete set of songs ").
By Fyodor Dostoyevsky The records from Underground -inspired A Song from Under the Floorboards ( song from Underground ) was several awards, including was covered by the Simple Minds and Morrissey.