Fad Gadget – Fireside Favourites

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Label:	Mute – STUMM 3
Format:	Vinyl, LP, Album
Country:	UK
Released:	Nov 7, 1980
Genre:	Electronic, Rock
Style:	Electro, New Wave, Synth-pop

Tracklist

A1	Pedestrian Electronic Drums – Daniel Miller Synthesizer [Bass] – Phil Wauquaire	3:22
A2	State Of The Nation	3:45
A3	Salt Lake City Sunday	2:12
A4	Coitus Interruptus Electronic Drums, Synthesizer, Sequenced By – Daniel Miller	4:20
A5	Fireside Favourite	4:34
B6	Newsreel Bass – Phil Wauquaire	3:42
B7	Insecticide	3:08
B8	The Box Electronic Drums, Synthesizer, Sequenced By – Daniel Miller Engineer – Daniel Miller	3:43
B9	Arch Of The Aorta	6:54

Companies, etc.

Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Mute Records
Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Fad Gadget
Copyright © – Mute Records
Copyright © – Fad Gadget
Published By – Sonet Publishing
Published By – Fad Gadget
Recorded At – Blackwing Studios
Lacquer Cut At – The Sound Clinic
Pressed By – Lyntone Recordings Ltd. – LYN-8851
Pressed By – Lyntone Recordings Ltd. – LYN-8852
Distributed By – Rough Trade
Distributed By – Spartan

Credits

Composed By, Voice, Synthesizer, Tape, Drum Programming, Noises [Ashtray, Metal Chair, Electric Shaver] – Fad Gadget
Design – Simone Grant
Drums – Nick Cash
Engineer, Noises [Extra Fingers, Ashtray, Metal Chair] – John Fryer
Guitar, Bass, Banjo, Engineer – Eric Radcliffe
Lacquer Cut By – Jonz*
Photography By – David Penny
Plated By – AO*
Producer [Studio] – Eric Radcliffe, Fad Gadget, John Fryer

Notes

Recorded at Blackwing Studios, All Hallows Church, London, 1980.
Distributed by Rough Trade & Spartan Records.
Nick Cash courtesy of Red Records.
℗ & © Fad Gadget
Mute Records
Published by Fad Gadget & Sonet

Songs are numbered in sequential order

Barcode and Other Identifiers

Matrix / Runout (Runout A, etched): STUMM-3-A JONZ LYN-8851-1SC AO
Matrix / Runout (Runout B, etched): STUMM-3-B2 LYN-8852-2SC-

Other Versions (5 of 18)

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	Title (Format)	Label	Cat#	Country	Year
	Fireside Favourites (LP, Album)	Mute	601810	Portugal	1980
	Fireside Favourites (LP, Album, MPO Pressing)	Mute	STUMM 3	UK	1980
New Submission	Fireside Favourites (LP, Album)	Possum Records, Mute	STUMM 3	Australia	1980
Recently Edited	Fireside Favourites (LP, Album, Stereo)	Mute, Mute	INT 146.800, STUMM 3	Germany	1981
	Fireside Favourites (LP, Album, MVS Pressing)	Mute	STUMM 3	UK	1983

Reviews

BogWraith Aug 19, 2019
This album is electronic, but it is also pure alternative, it is in fact the album I point to to those that ask "What is alternative music and what does it sound like?" I always have to play Pedestrian & State of the Nation together because they compliment each other so perfectly. When I first heard this album in 1980, my jaw hit the floor. It was so new, so different to anything I'd ever heard before and it helped usher in the great music that was to come in the 80's, IMO, the best decade along with the 60's ever in modern music!

The word "Genius" is over used and a good part of the time, not warranted. Frank Tovey was a true genius WAY ahead of his time! As mudslut23 notes below, he is still way ahead of his time. Frank died much too young with much more music to produce in him.

I'm 60 now & I still miss him and will for the rest of my life.
alphagrade Aug 21, 2018
I've just ordered the Mute 4.0 orange repress of this due out in October and really looking forward to hearing this artist on vinyl for the very first time. I saw him perform with Depeche in London way, way back in 2001and thought that he was the best support act of any band that I had ever seen, totally unique, and he jumped into the crowd :)
NothingLikeThe80s Jun 15, 2018
I have a STUMM 3 release which is different from all releases listed in the Master. There is no LYN, no MPO, no MVS present in the runout etchings. Mine also has the runout etching on Side B: SoundChime. Seems to be completely different from everything here. Maybe I should create a new release?