…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 Snow Patrol Wildness (Picture Disc) Rock And Pop | Polydor | 1LP, Picture Disc Released 25th May 2018 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Snow Patrol Wildness (Picture Disc) £18.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Polydor SKU: 6741254 Formats: 1LP, Picture Disc Released Date: 25th May 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Joanna Gruesome Weird Sister Rock And Pop | Fortuna Pop! | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released 13th September 2013 £12.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Joanna Gruesome Weird Sister £12.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Fortuna Pop! 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