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Avoid Freud is the second album by Canadian new wave band Rough Trade, released in 1980 (True North TN-43 in Canada, Stiff America USE 14 in the U.S., CBS 84952 in The Netherlands).[3] It placed at least as high as #19 on the Canadian RPM Top Albums Chart on March 14, 1981. (Inferred from archive listing for following week.)[4] The album was certified gold in Canada (50,000 units) by the CRIA on March 1, 1981, then advanced to platinum certification (100,000 units) by June of the same year.[5]

The first single released from the album was the controversial "What's The Furor About The Führer?" b/w "Fashion Victim" (True North TN4-157),[3] the latter track becoming the larger hit, reaching #25 in Canada on the National Top 50 Singles Chart on February 7, 1981[6] and #3 on the RPM CANCON Chart the following week.[7] The album's most famous single, however, is "High School Confidential" (b/w "Grade B Movie", True North TN4-159),[3] which was intensely controversial for its explicitly sexual lyrics, which include references to lesbianism. The influential Toronto radio station CHUM-FM paid for the band to record a cleaned-up version that avoided the line, "She makes me cream my jeans when she comes my way."[8] It reached #1 on the RPM CANCON Chart and #12 on the National Top 50 Chart on June 20 of the same year.[9]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Carole Pope and Kevan Staples

No.TitleLength
1."It's a Jungle"3:17
2."High School Confidential"3:26
3."Lie Back, Let Me Do Everything"3:22
4."Physical Violence"3:55
5."I Can't Take It"3:42
6."What's the Furor About the Führer?"3:22
7."Fashion Victim"4:06
8."Emotional Blackmail"2:42
9."Hostage"3:38
10."Grade B Movie"3:56

Personnel

References

  1. ^ Allan, Mark. Rough Trade: Avoid Freud > Review at AllMusic. Retrieved 10 July 2011.
  2. ^ Rolling Stone review, January, 1981[dead link‍]
  3. ^ a b c Rough Trade Discography. Laventure.net (1981-11-06). Retrieved on 2010-11-11.
  4. ^ "RPM 50 Albums". Volume 34, No. 15. RPM. March 21, 1981. Retrieved 10 July 2011.
  5. ^ "Music Canada, Gold Platinum Database".
  6. ^ "RPM 50 Singles". Volume 34, No. 9. RPM. February 7, 1981. Retrieved 10 July 2011.
  7. ^ "RPM Top 30 CANCON Singles". Volume 34, No. 10. RPM. February 14, 1981. Retrieved 10 July 2011.
  8. ^ Pope, Carole. Anti Diva. Vintage Canada, 2001, p.143. par. 1 ISBN 978-0-679-31137-9
  9. ^ "RPM 50 Singles". Volume 35, No. 2. RPM. June 20, 1981. Retrieved 10 July 2011.
Allikas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avoid_Freud
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