Archetypal and brilliant skittery, sparse, northern white post-punk-funk from 1980. Shack Up, a cover of the funk band Banbarra's 1975 single, was A Certain Ratio's third single and the first on Factory Benelux (FBN1 facspotters). When Factory compiled ACR's early singles and e.p. tracks in 1986 they produced a design classic- the album The Old And The New had Shack Up as an extra 7" single, with the single's sleeve glued to the front of the album sleeve. I've just realised I've been listening to this song for nearly two and a half decades. Not non-stop obviously, that'd be daft.
Shack_Up.mp3
Shack_Up.mp3
A classic. Think it got re-released (re-recorded?) in the 90s.
ReplyDeleteYeah-I've got that actually, forgot about it. There was a Bernard Sumner re-mix as well I think.
ReplyDeleteThis is a great track. The McCready/DaSilva mix was the one on the remixed versh iirc ..
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