Frankie Goes To Hollywood
Two tribes
Annihilation
Type: Single
Format: 12" vinyl + poster
Label: Zang Tuum Tumb
Catalogue ref.: 12ZTAS3
Series: Underestimated Action series no. 3
Release date: 4 June 1984
Country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Chart position: UK: (Starting 10/06/1984) 1; 1; 1; 1; 1; 1; 1; 1; 1; 3; 5; 9; 13; 17; 29; 34; 42; 54; 63; 65; x; 73; 100; x; x; x; x; 90; 95; 92; 85
Germany: (Starting 18/6/1984) 67; 45; 8; 6; 3; 4; 1; 2; 1; 4; 5; 6; 7; 11; 17; 18; 30; 30; 49; 58; 59; 64
Switzerland: 4
Norway: 4
USA Billboard Top 100: (Starting 20/10/1984) 79; 75; 64; 57; 55; 52; 47; 46; 43; 48; 48; 63; 73
USA Billboard Mainstream Rock Songs: (Peak 1/12/1984) 27
USA Billboard Dance Club Songs: (Peak 27/10/1984) 3
Sleeve design: XL Design; ZTT
Photographer: Anton Corbijn
Notes: The second of three different poster designs.
Side A
Side B
aka: 12" mix
Occasionally the tracklisting printed on the sleeve art of a release isn’t 100% accurate. Tracks may be missing, mixes unspecified or misnamed. For this reason a more accurate actual tracklisting is shown alongside the printed tracklisting.
Outer sleeve: Front
FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD
TWO TRIBES
“WE DON’T WANT TO DIE”
(ZTT logo)
Outer sleeve: Back
(Island logo)
12 ZTAS 3
’We can only guess at the precise effect of the epidemic ofalcoholism on the Soviet’s ability to fight. The men who fought their way across Europe, from the Volga to Berlin, were accompanied not by field kitchens (they were expected to look after their own cooking) but by field stills, and yet they won the war. On the other hand, German officers who fought against them have described occasions on which a Soviet unit was easily overcome because every man in it was drunk. A former lieutenant in the strategic Rocket Forces told Enders Wimbush, a Rand Corporate researcher: ”The time for the Americans to attack would be New Years Eve, because everybody was drunk and there was no-one on duty”. But then, he paused and added, New Years Eve wasn’t that much different from any other time”‘
’Are we living in a land where sex and horror are the new Gods?’
1. TWO TRIBES (annihilation)
2. WAR (hide yourself!)
3. TWO TRIBES (surrender)
4. ONE FEBRUARY FRIDAY
(chart)
’Whether the ban on the tedious ‘Relax’ was merited or not is another matter, but one rock musician who told me that the action was Stalinist was perhaps unfairly maligning the Soviet Union, where sex rears its head in the unlikeliest places. In “It Ain’t Necessarily So” from Porgy and Bess, the line “Little David was small, but oh my” was once translated as little David was impotent.” Oh my!’
’Yes, the Gurkas really are the sort of men one would like to go into the jungle with’[1]
Frankie Goes To Hollywood remain:
HollyJohnson: voice
Paul Rutherford: vocals
Brian Nash: guitar
Peter Gill: drums
Mark O’Toole: bass and vocals
Along with ZTAS 3 this is number 3 in Zang Tuum Tumb’s underestimated Action Series “What flies into pieces is rubbish”[2].
Action Series Number Three is produced by TREVOR HORN, assisted by his Building Theam. (Steve Lipson, J.J. Jeczalik, Andy Richards). art direction: XLZTT. photograph of V.I.Lenin: anton corbiin. frankie goes to hollywood are contactable, perhaps collectable through: P.O. Box No.160, Liverpool, L6G 8BT. Enclose s.a.e. please.
’To those within this hall of mirrors, the arms race thus appears a logical, if unfortunate development, each side attempting to counter the new weapon, or the new build up, of the other. Step back however, and the rationality of the process becomes far more elusive. What appears instead are two large bureaucracies, each of which is inefficient and wasteful, each of which inflates the “threat” posed by the other for its own internal purposes, each of which helps drain the economy of its own nation, but neither of which is especially impressive at doing the job assigned to it. They may lead us into war, but we shouldn’t expect either of them to fight it very well’
(chart)
(Frankie flag logo)
Label: Side A
side a: ANNIHILATION
FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD
stereo 45 r.p.m.
“two tribes”
(gill-johnson-o’toole)
produced by TREVOR HORN
engineer: steve lipson
published by perfect songs
12 ZTAS 3
℗+© 1984 Zang Tuum Tumb
“lovers and haters”
(ZTT logo)
Unauthorised public performance, broadcasting and copying of this record prohibited. All rights of the manufacturer and of the owner of the recorded work reserved.
(Island logo)
Label: Side B
side b: SURRENDER
FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD
stereo 45 r.p.m.
“War” (hide yourself)
(stong-whitfield)
published by jobete
produced by TREVOR HORN
engineer: steve lipson
“two tribes”
(gill-johnson-o’toole)
produced by TREVOR HORN
engineer: steve lipson
“one February Friday”
(gill-johnson-morley-nash-o’toole-rutherford)
published by perfect songs
12 ZTAS 3
℗+© 1984 Zang Tuum Tumb
“brothers and sisters”
(ZTT logo)
Unauthorised public performance, broadcasting and copying of this record prohibited. All rights of the manufacturer and of the owner of the recorded work reserved.
(Island logo)
Brian ‘Nasher’ Nash
Frankie Goes To Hollywood
Holly Johnson
Mark O’Toole
Paul Morley
Paul Rutherford
Peter ‘Ped’ Gill