Act
Snobbery & decay
Compacted
Type: Single
Format: Compact disc
Label: Zang Tuum Tumb
Catalogue ref.: CID28
Series: Action series no. 28
Release date: 4 May 1987
Country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Chart position: UK: (Starting 10/5/1987) 80; 68; 60; 77; x; x; 92; 94
Sleeve design: Intact
Photographer: Anton Corbijn; Anwar Hussein
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
ACT
compacted
Snobbery & Decay
Outer sleeve: Gatefold
“we are the objects of your suave entrapment.”
Outer sleeve: Back
CID 28
ACT
(ZTT logo)
“emotional highlights from Snobbery & Decay”
1. Snobbery & Decay
extended, for Stephanie Beacham
2. I’d Be Surprisingly Good For You
3. Poison
4. (Theme From) Snobbery & Decay
played by Chris Senior
Tracks 1, 3 and 4 taken from the Leer-Brücken musical “Name Dropping”
Track 2 taken from the Lloyd Webber-Rice musical “Evita”
Produced by Stephen Lipson.
String arrangements on tracks 1+2 by David Bedford
Musicians: Carll Sexx, Martina Martina as Martina, Claudia Brücken, Thomas Leer, Rose “Voice” Franken, Sensation. Sleeve: Intact. Compact painted by Andy Lukehurst
Special guest: Synclavier. Photography: Anton Corbijn
Claudia Brücken wears Chanel. Thomas Leer uses Akai.
Action 28: also available on record and cassette
Label
Emotional Highlights from
Snobbery & Decay†
(Leer-Brücken)
INCLUDING
I’D BE SURPRISINGLY GOOD FOR YOU°
(Lloyd Webber-Rice)
ACT
Arbitrary!
CID 28
All rights of the manufacturer and of the owner of the recorded work reserved. Unauthorised public performance broadcasting or copying of this record prohibited.
(CD logo) (Island logo)
published by Perfect Songs Ltd. †
published by Evita Music Ltd.°
produced by Stephen Lipson
played by Act
℗ Zang Tuum Tumb 1987
© Zang Tuum Tumb 1987
(ZTT logo)
Claudia Brücken
Thomas Leer