PILLOWS & PRAYERS LP – Nr MINT A1/B1 1982 INDIE PUNK CHERRY RED

Pillows & Prayers
(Cherry Red Records  1982  ZRED41)
Matrix No’s: A1/B1 – UK Sleeve – Made In France on label

Sleeve in Nr MINT condition
– original HMV price sticker top right
Inner Sleeve has sellotape along bottom edge and one side

Vinyl in Nr MINT condition
(there are some surface marks visible on the vinyl when held up to the light but they don’t affect the sound quality)

Pillows & Prayers (subtitled, Cherry Red 1982-1983) is compilation album released Christmas 1982 featuring artists on the Cherry Red record label at the suggestion of A&R head Mike Alway. The record was originally sold at 99 pence (in fact, “pay no more than 99p” was printed on the original sleeve), which helped ensure that the album peaked and remained at number 1 on the UK Indie Chart for 19 weeks and sold over 120,000 copies. Of note are tracks by English post-punk groups Everything But The Girl—whose singer Tracey Thorn also sang on her own solo track and as part of Marine Girls — The Monochrome Set and Felt, as well as a spoken word piece by writer Quentin Crisp.

Tracks

Side one

1. Five Or Six — “Portrait” (2:52)
2. The Monochrome Set — “Eine Symphonie Des Grauens” (2:19)
3. Thomas Leer — “All About You” (3:50)
4. Tracey Thorn — “Plain Sailing” (2:01)
5. Ben Watt — “Some Things Don’t Matter” (4:25)
6. Kevin Coyne — “Love in Your Heart” (2:55)
7. Piero Milesi — “Modi 2 (Extract)” (1:02)
8. Joe Crow — “Compulsion” (4:23)

Side two

1. Marine Girls — “Lazy Ways” (2:42)
2. Felt — “My Face Is on Fire” (3:04)
3. Eyeless in Gaza — “No Noise” (2:49)
4. The Passage — “XOYO” (3:26)
5. Everything But The Girl — “On My Mind” (3:08)
6. Attila the Stockbroker — “A Bang and a Wimpey” (1:41)
7. The Misunderstood — “I Unseen” (1:58)
8. The Nightingales — “Don’t Blink” (4:00)
9. Quentin Crisp — “Stop the Music for a Minute” (1:00)