Act
Laughter, tears and rage
Type: Album
Format: Compact cassette
Label: Zang Tuum Tumb
Catalogue ref.: ZQMC1
Release date: 27 June 1988
Country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Sleeve design: T&CP associates
Photography: Russell Young; Tobi Corney; Patrick Lichfield
Side 1
Side 2
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.
Inlay: Outer
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Laughter, Tears and Rage
Claudia Brücken
Thomas Leer
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Laughter, Tears and Rage · ZQMC 1
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one
Absolutely immune
Chance
Laughter
I can’t escape from you
Poison
Under the nights of germany
pause · two
Gestures · Bloodrush · A friendly warning · Certified Where love lies bleeding · Snobbery and decay
Manufactured in Germany. Fabriqué en Allemagne. Record Service GmbH, Alsdorf.
(Act logo)
one
Absolutely immune
Chance
Laughter
I can’t escape from you
Poison
Under the nights of germany
pause · two
Gestures
Bloodrush
A friendly warning
Certified
Where love lies bleeding
Snobbery and decay
performed by Claudia Brücken and Thomas Leer
produced by Stephen Lipson except Chance produced by Trevor Horn, Laughter produced by Greg Walsh and A friendly warning produced by Act
engineers: Bob Kraushaar, Heff Moraes and Renny Hill
photography: Russell Young, Tobi Corney and Patrick Lichfield
design: David A. Jones, Mark A. Higenbottam T&CP Assoc.
copy: Peter Frith, Tim Wiedner
hats: Petra Wüstner
additional music: Andy Gill, Betsy Cook, Luis Jardim, Pablo Cook, Phil Palmer, Neil Hubbard and Michael Dempsey
contact: Zang Tuum Tumb, 111 Talbot Road, London W11
’sur la férocité des blondes’
He’s lying now and I know it, but what the hell
side one
Absolutely immune
sung by Claudia Brücken and Thomas Leer
produced by Stephen Lipson
a starting point: our hero chooses to live and discover the enemy
Chance
produced by Trevor Horn
…see what happens in the world
Laughter
produced by Greg Walsh
“why do you go making dreams”
Inlay: Inner
I had made up my mind not to lift a finger
grace under pressure
I can’t escape from you
sung by Claudia Brücken
produced by Stephen Lipson
then this happens
Poison
produced by Stephen Lipson
“the power of positive thinking”
Under the nights of germany
produced by Stephen Lipson
what language did I speak
pause
end of part one
weiss der himmel, warum ich mich so elend fühle
how else has the world changed
side two
Gestures
sung by Claudia Brücken and Thomas Leer
produced by Stephen Lipson
caught in a cage between heaven and hell
Bloodrush
sung by Claudia Brücken
piano by Thomas Leer
produced by Stephen Lipson
“how else has the world changed”
A friendly warning
produced by Act
“all happiness consists of a certain quantity of something —
Certified
produced by Stephen Lipson
and yet in some senses our hero triumphs
Where love lies bleeding
produced by Stephen Lipson
“I had made my mind up —
Snobbery and decay
sung by Claudia Brücken and Thomas Leer
produced by Stephen Lipson
strings arranged by David Bedford
“lifestyles of the rich and famous/look at them, who can blame us…”
All titles written by Brücken/Leer except A friendly warning by Brücken/Dempsey/Leer
all titles published by Perfect Songs ltd. except Chance by Perfect Songs Ltd/Complete Music
℗ 1988 ZANG TUMB TUUM
© 1988 ZANG TUMB TUUM
Absolutely immune and Snobbery and decay
℗ 1987 ZANG TUMB TUUM
© 1988 ZANG TUMB TUUM
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Claudia Brücken
Thomas Leer