Homosapien (album)

Infobox Album |
Name = Homosapien
Type = studio
Artist = Pete Shelley


Released = 1981
Recorded = 1981, Genetic Studios, London
Genre = New wave
Length = 35:51
Label = Genetic (Island)
Producer = Martin Rushent, Pete Shelley
Reviews =
*Allmusic.com [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:pv1tk6sx9kr3 link]
Last album =
This album = "Homosapien "
(1981)
Next album = "XL1"
(1983)
Misc = Singles
Name = Homosapien
Type = studio
single 1 = Homosapien" b/w "Keat's Song
single 1 date = September 1981
single 2 = Homosapien" b/w "Love in Vain
single 2 date = 1982, (changed B-side)
single 3 =
single 3 date =
single 4 =
single 4 date =

Homosapien was Buzzcocks frontman Pete Shelley's 1981 debut solo album, the title-track of which was released as a UK single the same year. The single was banned by the BBC.

The album began as a collection of studio demos recorded by Shelley (and produced by Martin Rushent) for the next Buzzcocks' album. In the process, Shelley and Rushent grew enormously fond of the sound they had created in the studio, which featured an interesting blend of drum machines, synthesizers and sequencers coupled with guitars. Shelley, weary of the Buzzcocks' financial state, decided to leave the band after Island Records' Andrew Lauder offered him a solo record deal based on the demos.

Released at the start of the home computer boom, the album cover featured Shelley in a stylised 'office' leaning on a Commodore PET computer.

As was typical in the era, "Homosapien" had a different track listing in the United States, with three songs being excised and three single b-sides being added in their place.

In 1997, Razor & Tie Entertainment reissued the US version on CD with five bonus tracks taken from Shelley's follow-up album, "XL1". In 2006, the original UK version was reissued on CD by V.A.R. and includes all the songs from the US version as well as two other b-side "dub" mixes.

Track listing

As was typical in the era, "Homosapien" had a different track listing in the United States, with three songs being excised and three single b-sides being added in their place.
# "Homosapien"
# "Yesterday's Not Here"
# "I Generate A Feeling"
# "Keat's Song"
# "Qu' Est-Ce Que C' Est Que Ça"
# "I Don't Know What It Is"
# "Guess I Must Have Been In Love With Myself"
# "Pusher Man"
# "Just One Of Those Affairs"
# "It's Hard Enough Knowing"
# "Maxine" Bonus tracks+ In 1997, Razor & Tie Entertainment reissued the US version on CD with five bonus tracks taken from Shelley's follow-up album, "XL1". In 2006, the original UK version was reissued on CD by V.A.R. and includes all the songs from the US version as well as two other b-side "dub" mixes.
#"In Love with Somebody Else"
#"Homosapien" (dub)
#"Witness the Change/I Don't Know What Love Is"
#"Love in Vain"

Personnel

Pete Shelley - vocals, multi-instruments
*Barry Adamson - bass
*Martin Rushent - keyboards
*Jim Russell - drums

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