Fireside Favourites
by Fad Gadget
- Type: Album
- Released: 7 November 1980
- Label: Mute
- Country: United Kingdom
- Length: 36:02
- Community rating: 3.98/5 from 8 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Frank Tovey's debut as Fad Gadget is a wildly abrasive, highly influential touchstone for industrial and electronic body music. 'Fireside Favourites' blends incredibly dark, mechanical drum loops with found-sound percussion and Tovey's deadpan, deeply sarcastic lyricism, creating a remarkably anxious, futuristic, and ominous synthesizer nightmare.
Genres
Descriptors: rhythmic, synthesizers, industrial, minimalist, stomping, experimental, distorted, minimal, eccentric, electronic, melodic
Tracklist
- Pedestrian (3:20)
- State of the Nation (3:48)
- Salt Lake City Sunday (2:12)
- Coitus Interruptus (4:40)
- Fireside Favourite (4:31)
- Newsreel (3:42)
- Insecticide (3:09)
- The Box (4:17)
- Arch of the Aorta (6:20)
Credits
- Fad Gadget - primary artist, composed by, voice, synthesizer, tape, drum programming, noises [ashtray, metal chair, electric shaver], producer [studio], producer
- Simone Grant - design
- Nick Cash - drums
- John Fryer - engineer, noises [extra fingers, ashtray, metal chair], producer [studio]
- Eric Radcliffe - guitar, bass, banjo, engineer, producer [studio], producer
- John Dent - lacquer cut by
- David Penny - photography by
- Arthur Owen - plated by
- Daniel Miller - electronic drums, electronic drums, synthesizer, sequenced by, engineer
- Phil Wauquaire - synthesizer [bass]