Shop Assistants
(Blue Guitar/Chrysalis Records 1986 AZLP2)
Matrix No’s: A3/B3 – UK Pressing
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)
Sleeve in Nr MINT condition
– still in original shrinkwrap
Shop Assistants were an indie pop band from Edinburgh, Scotland, formed in 1984, initially as Buba & The Shop Assistants. After achieving success with independent releases they signed to Chrysalis Records sublabel Blue Guitar, releasing their only album in 1986. After splitting in 1987, with singer Alex Taylor moving on to The Motorcycle Boy, they reformed for two further singles in 1990.
Shop Assistants is the only album released by Shop Assistants. It was released in November 1986 on the Chrysalis Records ‘indie’ offshoot Blue Guitar. The album was critically acclaimed by Sounds staff that made ‘Shop Assistants’ in the list of top 50 best albums of 1986
Track listing
- I Don’t Wanna Be Friends With You – 2:18
- All Day Long – 1:50
- Before I Wake – 2:42
- Caledonian Road – 2:13
- All That Ever Mattered – 2:15
- Fixed Grin – 2:51
- Somewhere in China – 3:13
- Train From Kansas City – 3:42
- Home Again – 1:41
- Seems to Be – 2:22
- After Dark – 2:36
- All of the Time – 2:23
- What a Way to Die – 1:59
- Nature Lover – 1:55
Personnel
- Alex Taylor – lead vocals, tambourine
- David Keegan – guitar
- Sarah Kneale – bass, backing vocals, lead vocals on track 13
- Laura MacPhail – drums, glockenspiel
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