Going Deaf for a Living
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| Going Deaf for a Living | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | May 1980 | |||
| Studio | The Manor, Shipton-on-Cherwell, Oxfordshire | |||
| Genre | New wave | |||
| Length | 35:00 | |||
| Label | United Artists | |||
| Producer | Mike Howlett | |||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [1] |
Going Deaf for a Living is a
Red Skies Over Paradise, are considered by fans as the best work to be produced by Fischer-Z. The album featured the singles "Room Service", "Crazy Girl", "Limbo" and the most popular "So Long", which hit #72 in the UK singles chart, #15 in Australia[2]
and #26 in the Netherlands.
"So Long" was the first single by Fischer-Z to have a video made for it, and still garners regular airplay on radio stations in Europe, and Australia.
Track listing
All songs written by John Watts[3]
- "Room Service"
- "So Long"
- "Crazy Girl"
- "No Right"
- "Going Deaf For A Living"
- "Pick Up/Slip Up"
- "Crank"
- "Haters"
- "Four Minutes in Durham (With You)"
- "Limbo"
Charts
| Chart (1980) | Peak position |
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| Australian (Kent Music Report) | 52[4] |
Personnel
- Fischer-Z
- John Watts - lead vocals, guitar
- Steve Skolnik - keyboards
- David Graham - bass
- Steve Liddle - drums
- Technical
- Richard Manwaring - engineer
- John Pasche - sleeve, art direction, design
- Phil Jude - cover photography
References
- AllMusic
- ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
- ^ "Credits at allmusic".
- ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
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