Cure for Sanity

by Pop Will Eat Itself

Cure for Sanity cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 22 October 1990
  • Label: RCA
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 1:01:04
  • Community rating: 3.15/5 from 3 ratings

Artists on this release: Flood, Sylvia Tella

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Heavily utilizing extensive digital sampling and drum machines, 'Cure for Sanity' seamlessly bridges alternative rock with the burgeoning hip hop and electronic dance cultures. The playful, chaotic plunderphonics approach helped define the unique, genre-blurring 'grebo' scene of the English midlands.

Genres

Descriptors: sampling, political, rhythmic, rap, experimental, genre-blending, satirical

Tracklist

  1. The Incredible PWEI VS the Moral Majority (1:36)
  2. Dance of the Mad Bastards (3:56)
  3. 88 Seconds... & Still Counting (3:50)
  4. X, Y & Zee - Electric Sunshine Style (3:56)
  5. City Zen Radio 1990/2000 FM (0:56)
  6. Dr. Nightmare's Medication Time (2:25)
  7. Touched By the Hand of Cicciolina - Edited Highlights (4:40)
  8. 1000 X No (3:11)
  9. Psychosexual (2:16)
  10. Axe of Men (3:55)
  11. Another Man's Rhubarb - 7" Mix (4:05)
  12. Medicine Man Speak With Forked Tongue (0:41)
  13. Nightmare At 20,000 Feet (3:54)
  14. Very Metal Noise Pollution (1:22)
  15. 92掳 F (The 3rd Degree) - Boilerhouse "The Birth Mix" (3:34)
  16. Lived In Splendour, Died In Chaos (5:06)
  17. The Beat That Refused to Die (1:32)
  18. X, Y & Zee (4:42)
  19. 92掳 F (The 3rd Degree) (5:19)

Credits

  • Pop Will Eat Itself - primary artist
  • Phil Wolstenholme - cgi artist [computerised by]
  • Vestan Pance - written-by
  • Easy O - voice [the voice of dr nightmare]
  • Sylvia Tella - vocals

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