Cut (The Slits album)


Cut is the debut studio album by English punk band The Slits, released on 7 September 1979. It was recorded at Ridge Farm Studios in Rusper and produced by Dennis Bovell.

Release and reception

The album was originally released on 7 September 1979 on the Island Records label in the UK and on Antilles in the US. It reached number 30 on the UK album charts at the time. In 2004 it was voted at no 58 in The Observers list, The 100 Greatest British Albums. The album was also included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain listed the song "Typical Girls" in his top 50 favourite recordings of all time.

Reissues

The album was re-released on CD in Europe in 1990 and in 2000 within the Island Master series. In 2004 Koch Records licensed the master to Cut from Island Def Jam and reissued the album on CD for the first time ever in the United States; previously, the album had been only available to Stateside fans on CD as an English import, since the album's original American release had long since gone out of print.
In 2009 Island Records released a two-disc 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition consisting of the remastered original album plus bonus tracks and selections from the band's appearances on BBC's John Peel Sessions on the first disc and a second disc entitled "unCut" with demos and alternate mixes.

Track listing

All tracks written by Viv Albertine, Tessa Pollitt, Ariane Forster and Paloma Romero.

Side one

  1. "Instant Hit" – 2:43
  2. "So Tough" – 2:41
  3. "Spend, Spend, Spend" – 3:18
  4. "Shoplifting" – 1:39
  5. "FM" – 3:35

    Side two

  6. "Newtown" – 3:48
  7. "Ping Pong Affair" – 4:16
  8. "Love und Romance" – 2:27
  9. "Typical Girls" – 3:57
  10. "Adventures Close to Home" – 3:28
Bonus tracks
  1. "I Heard It Through the Grapevine"
  2. "Liebe and Romanze"

    2009 Deluxe Edition

Disc 1
  1. "Instant Hit"
  2. "So Tough"
  3. "Spend, Spend, Spend"
  4. "Shoplifting"
  5. "FM"
  6. "Newtown"
  7. "Ping Pong Affair"
  8. "Love und Romance"
  9. "Typical Girls"
  10. "Adventures Close to Home"
  11. "I Heard It Through The Grapevine"
  12. "Liebe and Romanze"
  13. "Typical Girls"
  14. "Love and Romance"
  15. "Vindictive"
  16. "Newtown"
  17. "Shoplifting"
  18. "So Tough"
  19. "Instant Hit"
  20. "FM"
Disc 2
  1. "I Heard It Through the Grapevine"
  2. "Instant Hit"
  3. "Spend, Spend, Spend"
  4. "Newtown"
  5. "Adventures Close to Home"
  6. "Instant Hit"
  7. "So Tough"
  8. "Spend, Spend, Spend"
  9. "Shoplifting"
  10. "FM"
  11. "Newtown"
  12. "Ping Pong Affair"
  13. "Love und Romance"
  14. "Typical Girls"
  15. "Adventures Close to Home"
  16. "So Tough"
  17. "Instant Hit"
  18. "Typical Girls"
  19. "Spend, Spend, Spend"
  20. "In the Beginning, There Was Rhythm"

    Personnel

;The Slits
with:
;Technical