''Bugger Off!'' is the second album by
Stack Waddy, released in 1972 on
Dandelion Records
Dandelion Records was a British record label started on 18 July 1969 by the British DJ John Peel.
History
The label was started as a way to get the music Peel liked onto record. Peel was responsible for "artistic direction" and the commercial ...
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The album liner notes by
Dandelion Records
Dandelion Records was a British record label started on 18 July 1969 by the British DJ John Peel.
History
The label was started as a way to get the music Peel liked onto record. Peel was responsible for "artistic direction" and the commercial ...
's owner and executive producer,
John Peel
John Robert Parker Ravenscroft (30 August 1939 – 25 October 2004), known professionally as John Peel, was an English disc jockey (DJ) and radio presenter. He was the longest-serving of the original BBC Radio 1 DJs, broadcasting regularly fr ...
, indicate each song was recorded in a single live take with the band refusing to make any kind of overdubbing or technical treatment on the resulting sound. He narrates that on one occasion he asked them to run through a song a second time and the band members yelled "''Bugger Off!, Peel''", which gave rise to the album's title.
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Critical reception
Music website Allmusic
AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musicians and bands. Initiated in 1991, the databas ...
gave Bugger Off! four out of five stars. Reviewer Dave Thompson highlights the authenticity and rawness of the band, and says the album expands the fierceness in their self-titled debut album, defining it as ''positively antisocial''.[
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Track listing
# " Rosalyn" – 2:31
# "Willie the Pimp" – 4:03
# "I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man
"Hoochie Coochie Man" (originally titled "I'm Your Hoochie Cooche Man") is a blues standard written by Willie Dixon and first recorded by Muddy Waters in 1954. The song makes reference to hoodoo folk magic elements and makes novel use of a sto ...
" – 4:19
# "It's All Over Now" – 3:13
# "Several Yards" – 5:58
# "You Really Got Me" – 2:43
# "I'm a Lover Not a Fighter" – 2:05
# "Meat Pies 'Ave Come but Band's Not 'Ere Yet" – 5:19
# "It Ain't Easy" – 3:50
# "Long Tall Shorty (Mainly)" – 3:26
# "Repossession Boogie" – 5:32
# "The Girl from Ipanema
"Garota de Ipanema" ("The Girl from Ipanema") is a Brazilian bossa nova and jazz song. It was a worldwide hit in the mid-1960s and won a Grammy for Record of the Year in 1965. It was written in 1962, with music by Antônio Carlos Jobim and Por ...
" - 1:27
# "Mama Keep Your Big Mouth Shut" - 3:42 (Bonus track from Repertoire Records 2000 CD re-release)
Personnel
Musicians
*John Knail - vocals, harmonica.
*Steve Revell - drums.
*Mick Stott - guitar.
*Stuart Banham - bass.
Production
* Eddie Lee Beppeaux - producer.
* Kevin Spotte - producer.
* John Peel
John Robert Parker Ravenscroft (30 August 1939 – 25 October 2004), known professionally as John Peel, was an English disc jockey (DJ) and radio presenter. He was the longest-serving of the original BBC Radio 1 DJs, broadcasting regularly fr ...
- executive producer, liner notes.
* Hamish Grimes - sleeve design.
* John Tobler
John Hugen Tobler (born 9 May 1943) is a British rock music journalist, writer, occasional broadcaster, and record company executive.
With Pete Frame, he was one of the founders of ZigZag magazine in April 1969. The magazine focused on the " un ...
- other (liner notes).[
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References
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1972 albums
Dandelion Records albums