Suicide (album)
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| Label (s) | Red Star Records | |||
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Title (number) |
7th |
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31:15 |
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Alan Vega - vocals, Martin Rev - keyboards |
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Marty Thau, Craig Leon |
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Ultima Studios, New York City |
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Suicide is the influential first studio album by the American duo Suicide , released in December 1977. It is often referred to as one of the earliest synth pop albums, although it has a distinct punk and industrial bias in contrast to many well-known albums in the mainstream synth pop genre . In addition, Suicide is counted among the key albums of the experimental No Wave direction and pioneered the music of New Wave and Minimal Electro .
reception
The debut album ranks 441 in the selection of the 500 best albums of all time by the music magazine Rolling Stone . The New Musical Express voted it 236 of the 500 best albums. Pitchfork Media ranks it # 39 on the Top 100 Albums of the 1970s. Suicide was included in the 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die .
The song Frankie Teardrop is included in Nick Hornby's 2002 book 31 songs , and it appeared in Rainer Werner Fassbinder's film In a Year with 13 Moons from 1978. The song Cheree is included in the final scene of Downtown 81 in which the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat took part. The song Girl appeared briefly in Nick Zedd's 1979 film They Eat Scum. The song Ghost Rider is featured in the 2006 video game Driver: Parallel Lines and also appeared in True Crime: New York City .
From the song Ghost Rider u. a. REM , The Horrors , The Gories, Rollins Band , Loop, The Sisters of Mercy , The Cassandra Complex , Merzbow , Soft Cell and The Young Gods made a cover version , and it was also used in a Brazilian deodorant advertisement from 2005. It was also sampled for MIA's 2010 single Born Free . In September 2009 the entire album was performed live as part of the Don't Look Back series arranged by All Tomorrow's Parties . It will be performed again in London in May 2010, where the duo will support the Stooges in the performance of Raw Power .
Track list
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All songs were composed by Martin Rev and Alan Vega .
- Ghost Rider - 2:33
- Rocket USA - 4:17
- Cheree - 3:41
- Johnny - 2:10
- Girl - 4:06
- Frankie Teardrop - 10:25
- Che - 4:51
Individual evidence
- ↑ Suicide 1977 on discogs.com (accessed January 14, 2017)
- ↑ a b Review by Marc Masters ( June 27, 2016) on Pitchfork.com (accessed January 14, 2017)
- ↑ laut.de biography Suicide on laut.de (accessed on February 16, 2018)
- ↑ 500 Greatest Albums of All Time on rollingstone.com (accessed February 16, 2018)
- ↑ The 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time: 300-201 on nme.com (accessed February 16, 2018)
- ↑ Top 100 Albums of the 1970s on pitchfork.com (accessed February 16, 1977)
- ↑ Review by Heather Phares on AllMusic.com (accessed January 14, 2017)