Time's Up + [BOOTLEG CD]

Released 1992 as Gema / DIYE CD2

Pete Shelley notes:
'I first saw this in Singapore in May 1992.'
Gez notes:
'There's a bootleg CD floating around at the moment [Aug 1994] called `Time's Up +' which is basically all the Time's Up material plus Razor Cuts all on one CD with quite nice packaging. On this there are 23 tracks (although it's listed as there being 24). It has a fold out booklet with a photo of the band and a few press cuttings reproduced over it. Spine bears the catalogue number D.I.Y.E 2 (diamonds in your ears).'
CD Cover art is reminicent of the Flying Lizards' Summertime Blues 7 inch with wide diagonal blue and yellow stripes. It could be argued that BUZZCOCKS' artist Malcolm Garrett first came up with this basic design (for "new wave" art, at least, which was a new thing at the time, though certainly this basic design was not new even then) when he used diagonal orange and silver stripes for a promo poster, upon which blue and yellow are simply a variation.

CD cover and liner notes list erroneous sequencing and sources. The sequencing listed here, and the sources cited in the Razor Cuts entry (See below) are correct. CD cover lists 'promises' but that song is missing, accounting for there being only 23 tracks instead of the 24 listed. This CD also deletes three Leeds Poly live tracks found on Razor Cuts. Tracks 01 - 11 are as on the vinyl copies of Time's Up (the second version of 'Boredom' is lifted from Spiral Scratch). The Document CD's of Time's Up and Spiral Scratch have sonic quality far superior to that found here on this CD. Tracks 12 - 23 are as on Razor Cuts, but the sequencing is altered.

  1. Boredom
  2. You Tear Me Up
  3. I Can't Control Myself
  4. Orgasm Addict
  5. Friends of Mine
  6. Drop in the Ocean [a.k.a. 'Lester Sands (Drop in the Ocean)']
  7. Breakdown
  8. Love Battery
  9. Time's Up
  10. Love Everybody [a.k.a. 'I Love You, You Big Dummy']
  11. Boredom
  12. Forever on the Run [a.k.a. 'Raison D'Etre']
  13. Real World
  14. Operator's Manual
  15. Lipstick
  16. No Reply
  17. Oh Maxime [sic, actually 'Oh Maxine']
  18. I Don't Mind
  19. Ever Fallen in Love With Someone You Shouldn't've
  20. Noise Annoys
  21. Love You More
  22. I Can't Control Myself
  23. Orgasm Addict

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