CD released (UK) Jul 1994 as Grapevine Label Ltd. GRACD201
Vinyl released Dec 1981 (UK) as Genetic (Island) ILPS9676
Cassette released (UK) as Genetic (Island) ICT9676
Vinyl released Mar 1982 (US) as A+M SP70026
Cassette had all tracks on both sides; the second side is unlabelled
for you to record 'your own programme'.
US vinyl version replaced 4, 8 and 10 with 'In Love With Somebody
Else', 'Love in Vain' and 'Witness the Change'.
All of these tracks are included on the 1994 CD.
The 1994 CD has informative liner notes itentical to those found in the XL1 CD.
- SHELLEY:
- "The Homosapien LP started off being the demos for a Buzzcocks album. In the studio, all we had was a 12 string guitar, which I borrowed, a drum machine and a synthesizer and so we just used that for laying down some tracks. But it was one of those things that once you finish something, it never quite turns out the way you envision it. Interestingly enough, it came out sounding even better and it suggested a whole new way of dealing with the process of making music."
[Scott Munroe interview (1993???), Missing Chairs zine, reprinted in Suburban Voice zine #35, 1994]
(See BUZZCOCKS demos for 4th album)
Produced by Martin Rushent and Pete Shelley
Recorded at Genetic Sound
Songs written by ShelleyCD running order (note the mixup with tracks 11 and 12):
- 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
- Homosapien [4:32]
- Yesterday's Not Here [4:08]
- I Generate a Feeling [3:10]
- Keat's Song [1:58]
- Qu'est-ce Que C'est Que Ça [4:18]
- I Don't Know What It Is [3:27]
- Guess I Must Have Been in Love With Myself [3:33]
- Pusher ManPusher Man [2:47]
- Just One of Those Affairs [3:37]
- It's Hard Enough Knowing [5:35]
[Tracks 11 & 12 are listed as 'Witness the Change' and 'Maxine', but both of those songs are in the track 12 CD timing code, and track 11 is a second, short version of track 10. Oddly, the running time listed for track 11, 1:46, is correct even though the song title is mixed up, and the running time listed for track 12, 8:21, is correct for the combined 'Witness the Change' and 'Maxine'.]
- It's Hard Enough Knowing [1:46] [reprise of some sort???]
- [0:00 - 4:46] Witness the Change [4:46]
[4:47 - 4:49] [between song silence]
[4:50 - 8:21] Maxine [3:31]- In Love With Somebody Else [2:59]
- Homosapien [dub] [9:01]
- Witness the Change / I Don't Know What Love Is [dub] [8:22]
[Notice the substitution of 'What Love Is' for 'What It Is'.]- Love in Vain [3:19]
