Sanity Stomp | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | 1980 | |||
Recorded | Disk 1: Berry Street Studio, Clerkenwell, London Disk 2: Alvic Studios, Wimbledon, London | |||
Genre | Rock | |||
Label | Virgin | |||
Producer | Kevin Coyne and Paul Wickens | |||
Kevin Coyne chronology | ||||
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Sanity Stomp is a double studio album by British rock artist Kevin Coyne which was released in 1980 by Virgin Records.
Background
Of this album Coyne himself said:
I was quite ill when I made that record, as a matter of fact; I was quite mad, basically. That's why it's called Sanity Stomp.... That's a record I made when I was clinically ninety-five per cent nuts, and the themes are rather odd, but somehow it comes out as sounding all right.[1]
Reception
Writing for AllMusic, Dave Thompson said:
"If Bursting Bubbles saw Kevin Coyne pursue the joys of anti-production to its logical conclusion, Sanity Stomp -- his second new album in less than a year -- caught him furiously flinging himself back into the fray, at least in part.... few albums have been so aptly titled.[2]
Disk 1
Track listing
- "Fat Man"
- "The Monkey Man"
- "How Strange"
- "Somewhere In My Mind"
- "When (See You Again?)"
- "Taking On The World"
- "No Romance"
- "Too Dark (One for the Hero)"
- "Admit You're Wrong"
- "Formula Eyes"
Personnel
- Kevin Coyne – vocals
- Paul Fox – guitar
- John "Segs" Jennings – bass
- Dave Ruffy – drums
- Gary Barnacle – saxophone
- Paul Wickens – keyboards
(Fox, Jennings, Ruffy and Barnacle were all members of The Ruts)
- Producer: Paul Wickens
- Engineer: David Hunt at Berry Street Studio
Disk 2
Track listing
- "New Motorway"
- "A Loving Hand"
- "Fear of Breathing"
- "In Silence"
- "Taking On the Bowers" (Robert Wyatt)
- "Wonderful Wilderness" (Brian Godding)
- "My Wife Says"
- "The World Speaks" (Brian Godding)
- "You Can't Kill Us"
Personnel
- Kevin Coyne – guitar, keyboards, vocals
- Brian Godding – electric guitar and keyboards
- Robert Wyatt – drums, keyboards
- Bob Ward – second guitar
- Producer: Kevin Coyne
- Engineer: Mike at Alvic Studios
- Johnnie Rutter – front cover photography
- Back cover artwork: Robert Coyne
References
- ↑ Poor (17 September 2007). "THE WORLD OF KEVIN COYNE: KEVIN COYNE – 1980 Sanity Stomp @ 192". Kevincoyne.blogspot.com. Retrieved 22 May 2014.
- ↑ "Sanity Stomp - Kevin Coyne | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic". Retrieved 21 August 2021 – via www.allmusic.com.