…If I Die, I Die (40th Anniversary Edition) Virgin Prunes SKU: 4050538821604 Barcode: 4050538821604 28.00 £28.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: BMG Rights Management Released Date: 11th November 2022 Buying Format: 1LP Coloured Vinyl Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info If I Die, I Die was released only weeks before the Heresie box set. The two albums show very different faces of the Virgin Prunes – one that explored mythical worlds and another that showed their surrealistic interest in the creative power of insanity. They also highlight the ways in which the band enjoyed experimenting with different genres, sound forms and recording techniques. As Gavin Friday has commented recently, “The Virgin Prunes contained four different bands at the same time.” The album was recorded at the Windmill Studios in Dublin in the summer of 1982 and produced by Wire’s Colin Newman. Rather than adopt an A/B format, the sides of the 1982 vinyl and album cover, which was designed by Steve Averill, were given brown and blue colours, signalling earth and sky respectively. The art work on each side of the sleeve was also inverted so that either side could be read as the front cover. Ursula Steiger’s photography captured, on the brown side, the band running through a forest like a nomadic tribe. On the blue side we then find them in different costumes, performing with fire and mannequins within a derelict building. If I Die, I Die contains nine tracks. The brown side is evocative of distant mystical lands and brings to mind Iroquois culture. It features “Ulakanakulot” (referring to ‘the imaginary land of the Kuli Bird from where the Beautifull People come’), “Decline and Fall,” “Sweethome Under White Clouds” and “Bau-dachöng” (meaning ‘secret inner wisdom’). The blue side showcases the slow and frenzied paces of their music, while highlighting the ways their highly visceral songs switch subjects and registers from the ancient and historical, to the social tensions and dysfunctions of a late twentieth-century present. It features “Baby Turns Blue” (which was a very successful Indie single), “Ballad of the Man,” “Walls of Jericho,” “Caucasian Walk” and “Theme for Thought,” which includes spoken passages of Oscar Wilde’s poem The Ballad of Reading Gaol. This 40th Anniversary Edition of the album sees a full remaster housed in a special finish gatefold sleeve on colored vinyl. The reissue also comes with a 16 page booklet featuring sleeve notes by Dr. Jonathan Wood exploring the writing, recording and production of the record plus an exclusive 12 x 12 art print. Artist Virgin Prunes Genre Rock And Pop Label BMG Rights Management Buying Options 1LP Coloured Vinyl Format 1LP , Coloured Vinyl Condition New Country UK Track Listings Ulakanakulot (2022 Remaster) Decline and Fall (2022 Remaster) Sweethome Under White Clouds (2022 Remaster) Bau-Dachöng (2022 Remaster) Baby Turns Blue (2022 Remaster) Ballad of the Man (2022 Remaster) Walls of Jericho (2022 Remaster) Caucasian Walk (2022 Remaster) Theme for Thought (2022 Remaster) Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Virgin Prunes and more from Rock And Pop View Product Quick View Virgin Prunes A New Form of Beauty 1-4 – 2024 Deluxe Edition Rock And Pop | MVKA | 3LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 8th March 2024 £43.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Virgin Prunes A New Form of Beauty 1-4 – 2024 Deluxe Edition £43.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: MVKA SKU: 4050538925418 Formats: 3LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 8th March 2024 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Sam Smith Gloria Rock And Pop | EMI | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 27th January 2023 £26.00 - £30.00 Select options Sam Smith Gloria £26.00 - £30.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: EMI Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 27th January 2023 Read More Select options View Product Quick View My Name Is Ian Fantastic Company Rock And Pop | Bubblewrap Records | 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code, Includes Poster Released 4th June 2021 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders My Name Is Ian Fantastic Company £20.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Bubblewrap Records SKU: BWR059 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code, Includes Poster Released Date: 4th June 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Paul Rodgers Free Spirit Metal / Classic Rock | Quarto Valley Records | 3LP, Includes Download Code Released 6th July 2018 £30.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Paul Rodgers Free Spirit £30.00 Genre: Metal / Classic Rock Label: Quarto Valley Records SKU: QVR0108 Formats: 3LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 6th July 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Datura4 West Coast Highway Cosmic Rock And Pop | Alive | 1LP Released 17th April 2020 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Datura4 West Coast Highway Cosmic £20.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Alive SKU: LPALIVE0208 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 17th April 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Anna Calvi Hunted Rock And Pop | Domino | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released 6th March 2020 £23.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Anna Calvi Hunted £23.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Domino SKU: WIGLP466 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released Date: 6th March 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Doors, The The Doors 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition Rock And Pop | Elektra | 1LP, Box Set, Includes CD Released 31st March 2017 £43.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Doors, The The Doors 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition £43.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Elektra SKU: 0081227941208 Formats: 1LP, Box Set, Includes CD Released Date: 31st March 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Various Artists Femme De Paris Rock And Pop | Diggers Factory | 1LP Released 17th July 2021 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Various Artists Femme De Paris £20.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Diggers Factory SKU: ANT2106137LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 17th July 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nearly New View Product Quick View Whiskey & Co. 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