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album #14
Shift-Work

Original UK release:
15 April 1991
Cog Sinister via Fontana
LP: 848.594-1; cassette: 848.594-4; CD: 848.594-2

Tracklisting:
01. So What About It? (Scanlon/Smith/Wolstencroft) 3:24
02. Idiot Joy Showland (Hanley, S/Smith) 3:43
03. Edinburgh Man (Scanlon/Smith) 4:44
04. Pittsville Direkt (Hanley, S/Scanlon/Smith) 4:02
05. The Book Of Lies (Scanlon/Smith) 2:58
06. The War Against Intelligence (Scanlon/Smith) 3:16
07. Shift-Work (Scanlon/Smith) 4:38
08. You Haven't Found It Yet (Scanlon/Smith) 4:08
09. The Mixer (Scanlon/Smith/Wolstencroft) 3:37
10. A Lot Of Wind (Smith) 3:26
11. Rose (Scanlon/Smith) 3:20
12. Sinister Waltz (Smith) 4:13
13. High Tension Line (Hanley, S/Smith) 3:48
14. White Lightning (Richardson) 2:14

(LP - Side 1: tracks 1-6; Side 2: tracks 7-12)
(cassette - Side 1: tracks 1-5, track 13, track 6; Side 2: tracks 7-9, track 14, tracks 10-12)
(CD: tracks 1-5, track 13, tracks 6-9, track 14, tracks 10-12)

Personnel:
Mark E Smith - vocals
Craig Scanlon - guitar
Steve Hanley - bass
Simon Wolstencroft - drums, keyboards
Kenny Brady - vocals, fiddle

With:
Cassell Webb - vocals
Dave Bush - machines
Craig Leon - organ, guitar
Martin Bramah - guitar (track 11)
Marcia Schofield - flute (track 11)

Other credits:
Produced and mixed by: Robert Gordon (tracks 1, 5, 6, 9); Craig Leon (tracks 2, 3, 7, 8, 10-12; mix only track 4) ; Grant Showbiz (tracks 3, 4, 10)
Cover artwork: Pascal Le Gras

Recording info:
Recorded at FON Studios, Sheffield and elsewhere late 1990-early 1991.

Notes:
Track 13 is from the High Tension Line single; track 14 is from the White Lightning/The Dredger EP single. A 2-track promotional 7" (FALL1) in plain black die-cut sleeve contained the album tracks: So What About It? / Edinburgh Man.

 
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Reissues:  
2002 Voiceprint reissue
Released on 23 September 2002 on Cog Sinister via Voiceprint.
CD: COGVP134CD
Original CD tracklisting plus bonus tracks:
15. Blood Outta Stone
16. Xmas With Simon
Track 15 comes from the White Lightning/The Dredger EP single; track 16 comes from the High Tension Line single.

2003 Voiceprint double pack
Released on 22 September 2003 on Cog Sinister via Voiceprint.
CD: VP241005CD (2 CDs)
Double pack CD - the 2002 Voiceprint reissue of Shift-work coupled with the 2002 Voiceprint reissue of Code: Selfish.

2007 Universal reissue
Released on 7 May 2007 on Fontana/Mercury Records, a Universal Music company.
CD: 9847464 (2 CDs)
Original LP tracklisting on CD1 plus bonus tracks on CD2:
01. White Lightning (Richardson) 2:14
02. Blood Outta Stone (Smith/Beddington) 3:34
03. Zagreb (Movements I+II+III) (Smith/Schofield) 5:55
04. Life Just Bounces (Smith/Scanlon) 4:13
05. The Funeral Mix (Smith/Black/More) 3:31
06. High Tension Line (Smith/Scanlon/Hanley, S) 3:47
07. Xmas With Simon (Smith/Scanlon/Wolstencroft) 3:28
08. Don't Take The Pizza (Smith/Rogers) 2:37
09. So What About It? (promo remix 1) (Scanlon/Smith/Wolstencroft) 4:23
10. So What About It? (promo remix 2) (Scanlon/Smith/Wolstencroft) 4:33
11. So What About It? (promo remix 3) (Scanlon/Smith/Wolstencroft) 4:11
12. The Re-Mixer (Scanlon/Smith/Wolstencroft) 4:08
13. Cloud Of Black (Smith) 4:28
14. Arid Al's Dream (Scanlon/Smith) 4:48
15. The War Against Intelligence (Scanlon/Smith) 3:03
16. Idiot Joy Showland (Scanlon/Smith/Wolstencroft) 3:47
17. A Lot Of Wind (Smith) 5:25
18. The Mixer (Scanlon/Smith/Wolstencroft) 4:32
Tracks 1-5 come from the White Lightning/The Dredger EP single; tracks 6-8 come from the High Tension Line single; tracks 9-11 come from the promo 12" So What About It?; track 12 comes from the Why Are People Grudgeful? single; track 13 comes from the live compilation The Twenty Seven Points; track 14 comes from the Various Artists compilation Volume Four; tracks 15-18 come from John Peel radio session #14. The 2007 reissue had a promotional sampler CD (see image gallery) containing 3 tracks each from the reissues of Extricate, Shift-Work and Code: Selfish as follows: Telephone Thing (Extended) / The Littlest Rebel / Hilary / The Book Of Lies / High Tension Line / Life Just Bounces / Free Range / Immortality / So-Called Dangerous. There was also a promotional postcard (see image gallery).


Image gallery:
 

Front cover


2007 Universal reissues sampler CD


2007 Universal postcard back



Promo 7" A-side


2007 Universal reissues sampler CD back


Promo 7" B-side


2007 Universal postcard front
 


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