Essential Logic- Beat Rhythm News (Waddle Ya Play) (45th Anniversary - Deluxe Edition)

Label: Hiss & Shake

Reissued 1/31/2025, Originally released 1979

UK Import

Two CD set. UK punk band X-Ray Spex co-founder Lora Logic was unexpectedly ousted before the recording of their debut album 'Germ Free Adolescents' in 1977. Undeterred, Lora went on to form and front the post-punk band Essential Logic. With trademark angular sax lines and her unmistakable vocal stylings, she went on to create some of the most liberating and exciting music of the early post-punk era, not only as Essential Logic, but also as a solo artist. 'Beat Rhythm News (Waddle Ya Play?)' is the band's debut studio album. Lora's solo album 'Pedigree Charm' followed in 1982. This 45th Anniversary 'Deluxe' edition compiles the original studio album together with a bonus album containing the complete Essential Logic studio recordings from 1978 - 1983, including the iconic Cells Records debut single 'Aerosol Burns' (1978), the 'Wake Up' EP (1979), included here for the first time on any physical release since it's original pressing, together with the non-album b-side 'Flora Force' and 3 post album Rough Trade Records single releases: 'Eugene' (1980), 1981's 'Music Is A Better Noise' and 'Fanfare In The Garden', and their respective b-sides.

Track listing:

1. Quality Crayon Wax O.K
2. The Order Form
3. Shabby Abbott  
4. World Friction    
5. Wake Up    
6. Albert  
7. Alkaline Loaf In The Area    
8. Collecting Dust
9. Popcorn Boy (Waddle Ya Do?)    
10. Aerosol Burns  
11. World Friction (Single Version)    
12. Wake Up (EP Version)
13. Eagle Bird
14. Quality Crayon Wax O.K (EP Version)
15. Bod's Message
16. Flora Force
17. Eugene
18. Tame The Neighbours  
19. Music Is a Better Noise
20. Moon Town  
21. Fanfare In The Garden
22. The Captain