''Moving'', released by

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on 27 January

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, is the third studio

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. It was re-released in the US by

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in 1993, and in the UK by Rough Trade in 1994, with a different track list and altered cover art. On its original release, the album reached No. 5 in the

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Track listing

Original (1983)

# "Ooh Ooh La La La" # "Dreaming in the Past" # "Mouth of a Story" # "Honey Mad Woman" # "Rainstorm" # "Dance of Hopping Mad" # "Balloon" # "I Saw a Hill" # "Overheard" # "The Body" # "Avidoso" # "Animal Rhapsody"

Reissue (1993/1994)

# "No One's Little Girl" # "Ooh Ooh La La La" # "Dance of Hopping Mad" # "Balloon" # "Mouth of a Story" # "I Saw a Hill" # "Overheard" # "Rainstorm" # "The Body" # "Animal Rhapsody"

Personnel

;The Raincoats *

Vicki Aspinall Victoria "Vicky" Aspinall is a British musician. She was the violinist in the English post-punk band The Raincoats from 1978 to 1984. In 1992 she and Dave Morgan founded the independent dance label Fresh Records (not the post-punk label of the sam ...

- vocals, organ, bass, piano, violin *

Gina Birch Gina Birch is an English musician and filmmaker, best known as a founding member of post-punk rock band, the Raincoats. Born in Nottingham, Birch attended Nottingham High School for Girls, and later the Hornsey School of Art, where she formed ...

- vocals, bass, guitar, vibraphone *

Ana da Silva Ana da Silva is a musician, best known as a founding member of post-punk rock band the Raincoats. Career Born in Madeira island of Portugal, she grew up without television and little access to popular culture. She had exposure to music throu ...

- vocals, guitar, percussion with: *

Harry Beckett Harold Winston "Harry" Beckett (30 May 1935 – 22 July 2010) was a British trumpeter and flugelhorn player of Barbadian origin. Biography Born in Bridgetown, Saint Michael, Barbados, Harry Beckett learned to play music in a Salvation Army ...

- trumpet, flugelhorn *

Richard Dudanski Richard "Snakehips" Dudanski, also known as Richard Nother, is an English drummer who was a member of a number of seminal British proto-punk, punk and post-punk bands, including The 101ers, The Raincoats, Public Image Ltd., Tymon Dogg and the Fool ...

- percussion, drums, balafon * Michael McEvoy - synthesiser bass on "Animal Rhapsody", horn arrangements * Paddy O'Connell - bass, tenor saxophone, penny whistle * Derek Goddard - percussion, bongos, conga, drums * Roger Freeman - percussion * Chris "C.P." Lee - trumpet * Mgotse Mothie - double bass

References

1984 albums The Raincoats albums Albums produced by Adam Kidron Rough Trade Records albums Geffen Records albums {{1980s-rock-album-stub