Cardiac Arrest (4) – The Obvious Identity

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Label:	Not On Label (Cardiac Arrest (4) Self-released) – none
Format:	Cassette, Album, C60
Country:	UK
Released:	Jun 1980
Genre:	Rock
Style:	Punk, Avantgarde, Experimental

Tracklist

A1	The Obvious Identity Written-By – Philip Pilf	2:11
A2	Visiting Hours Written-By – Philip Pilf	4:50
A3	Pip As Uncle Dick But Peter Spoilt It Music By – Philip Pilf Words By – Shattocks, Pilf	4:35
A4	To Go Off And Things Music By – Philip Pilf Words By – Little Bobby Shattocks	2:25
A5	Rock Around The Clock Written-By – Doilet, Pilf	1:53
A6	Leaf Scrapings Written-By – Cardiac Arrest (4), Philip Pilf	3:13
B1	A Game For Berties Party Words By, Music By – Little Bobby Shattocks, Philip Pilf	7:02
B2	Cameras Arranged By – Pilf* Written-By – Shattocks*	1:02
B3	Bite 3/a Written-By – Philip Pilf	2:37
B4	Pilf Written-By – Pilf*	3:22
B5	Let Alone My Plastic Doll Written-By – Pilf*	4:06
B6	A Balloon For Bertys Party Written-By – Pilf*	8:02

Bass, Vocals, Handclaps – Patty Pilf
Drums, Vocals, Handclaps – Little Bobby Shattocks
Engineer – Peter*
Guitar, Vocals, Synthesizer, Organ, Glockenspiel, Handclaps – Philip Pilf
Other [Many Special Thankyous To] – Dangerous Girls, Domonic Luckman*, Eileen Smith, Tim Quy
Producer – Cardiac Arrest (4)
Synthesizer [Sinthersiser], Organ, Vocals, Handclaps, Other [String Thing] – Duncan Doilet
Vocals – Peter Boker (tracks: B1, B6)

Cardiac Arrest private release. This was sold at concerts and via mailorder.

Approximately 100 copies were made.

	Title (Format)	Label	Cat#	Country	Year
New Submission	The Obvious Identity (CD, Album, Unofficial Release)	Not On Label	none	UK	Unknown

JammyD Jan 4, 2025
The new Cardiacs book has a picture of the cover art, but the cover is white instead of black... intriguing
civilsurface May 31, 2024
Who cares about fidelity - this really needs a reissue along with Toy World for the sake of the original versions. Someone in or close to the band must have a decent early generation copy. And then there's that fantastic live at Eric's, Liverpool soundboard recording from '79 (?) - we need these even just in CDr form.
seba32tiger Dec 17, 2015
The cassette which features an early outing of a true masterpiece...Cameras