We Know Nonsense, by The 49 Americans

We Know Nonsense

by The 49 Americans

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guska2 One of the great forgotten heroes of my distant past. Happy music doesn't have to be dumb! Favorite track: Mummy Was A Record Player.

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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 12-pages booklet contains "The Incompleteable Story of The 49 Americans".

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1.	Doo-Bee-Doo-Bee 03:06	buy track
2.	It Is And It Is 01:27	buy track
3.	Edible 02:58	buy track
4.	Verbal Culture 02:41	buy track
5.	Liberty 04:11	buy track
6.	We Know Nonsense 02:18	buy track
7.	Tendency To Lie 03:48	buy track
8.	Glimpse Go By 01:44	buy track
9.	It's Time 02:38	buy track
10.	Mon Nuisance 02:37	buy track
11.	Taste 02:22	buy track
12.	Imagination 03:26	buy track
13.	Do 01:13	buy track
14.	I Be Later 03:10	buy track
15.	Move Around All Day 03:00	buy track
16.	Free Trade 01:46	buy track
17.	Mummy Was A Record Player 01:56	buy track
18.	Mon Nuisance (Alternative Version Bonus Track) 03:41	buy track
19.	I Be Later (Alternative Version Bonus Track) 03:27	buy track
20.	Doo-Bee-Doo-Bee (Alternative Version Bonus Track) 03:25	buy track

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Long-awaited reissue of the second full-length album from 1982 by late 70s/early 80s 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 (her Adrian Sherwoood/John Lydon produced Dirty Washing 12" on 99 Records is a classic), Giblet's mum and many more. "Think of The 49 Americans as a band, in the conventional sense, and you're lost." (David Toop)

The Wire magazine 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 improvisors 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. The sense of childlike fun is palpable as the album waves a flag for unpretentious pop - as Giblet sings on 'It's Time': 'Happy music doesn't have to be dumb'." (Clive Bell)

On occasion of its 15th anniversary, the Staubgold label is proud to reissue the complete back catalogue of The 49 Americans. Further releases include a vinyl- and download-only reissue of their first album "E Pluribus Unum" (staubgold 124) and a download-only compilation of "The 14-Track Single" 7" and "Too Young To Be Ideal" 12" (staubgold 125). All downloads feature exclusive bonus tracks (live recordings and studio outtakes).

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released April 12, 2013

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Founded in 1998 by DJ, musician and journalist Markus Detmer, Staubgold is an acknowledged and acclaimed brand for experimental and electronic music from around the world.

Its roster can boast internationally known names like Vivien Goldman, The Flying Lizards, Faust, To Rococo Rot, Kammerflimmer Kollektief, Ekkehard Ehlers and Rafael Toral. ... more

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