:Avoid Freud

{{Infobox album|

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| name = Avoid Freud

| type = Album

| artist = Rough Trade

| cover = AvoidFreud.jpg

| alt =

| released = October 13, 1980

| recorded = August – September 1980

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = {{hlist|Art punk|new wave}}

| length = 34:56

| label = True North (Canada)
Stiff America (U.S.)
CBS (Netherlands)

| producer = Gene Martynec
Rough Trade

| prev_title = Rough Trade Live! Direct to Disc

| prev_year = 1976

| next_title = For Those Who Think Young

| next_year = 1981

}}

{{Album ratings

| rev1 = Allmusic

| rev1Score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{AllMusic

|class=album

|id=r301254

|tab=review

|label=Rough Trade: Avoid Freud > Review

|first=Mark

|last=Allan

|accessdate=10 July 2011

}}

| rev2 = Rolling Stone

| rev2Score = (Not Rated) [https://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/_/id/245100/roughtrade?pageid=rs.Artistcage&pageregion=triple1 Rolling Stone review, January, 1981]{{dead link|date=August 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}

}}

Avoid Freud is the second album by Canadian new wave band Rough Trade, released in 1980 (True North TN-43 in Canada, Stiff America USE 14 in the U.S., CBS 84952 in The Netherlands).[http://www.laventure.net/tourist/rt_disc.htm Rough Trade Discography]. Laventure.net (1981-11-06). Retrieved on 2010-11-11. It placed at least as high as #19 on the Canadian RPM Top Albums Chart on March 14, 1981. (Inferred from archive listing for following week.){{cite web|title=RPM 50 Albums|url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?&file_num=nlc008388.0314&type=1|date=March 21, 1981|work=Volume 34, No. 15|publisher=RPM|accessdate=10 July 2011 }} The album was certified gold in Canada (50,000 units) by the CRIA on March 1, 1981, then advanced to platinum certification (100,000 units) by June of the same year.{{cite web|title=Music Canada, Gold Platinum Database|url=http://www.musiccanada.com/GPSearchResult.aspx?st=&ica=False&sa=rough%20trade&sl=&smt=0&sat=-1&ssb=Artist}}

The first single released from the album was the controversial "What's The Furor About The Führer?" b/w "Fashion Victim" (True North TN4-157), the latter track becoming the larger hit, reaching #25 in Canada on the National Top 50 Singles Chart on February 7, 1981{{cite web|title=RPM 50 Singles|url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?&file_num=nlc008388.0288&type=1|work=Volume 34, No. 9|publisher=RPM|date=February 7, 1981|accessdate=10 July 2011 }} and #3 on the RPM CANCON Chart the following week.{{cite web|title=RPM Top 30 CANCON Singles|url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?&file_num=nlc008388.0291&type=1|work=Volume 34, No. 10|publisher=RPM|date=February 14, 1981|accessdate=10 July 2011 }} The album's most famous single, however, is "High School Confidential" (b/w "Grade B Movie", True North TN4-159), which was intensely controversial for its explicitly sexual lyrics, which include references to lesbianism. The influential Toronto radio station CHUM-FM paid for the band to record a cleaned-up version that avoided the line, "She makes me cream my jeans when she comes my way."Pope, Carole. Anti Diva. Vintage Canada, 2001, p.143. par. 1 {{ISBN|978-0-679-31137-9}} It reached #1 on the RPM CANCON Chart and #12 on the National Top 50 Chart on June 20 of the same year.{{cite web|title=RPM 50 Singles|url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?&file_num=nlc008388.0352&type=1|work=Volume 35, No. 2|publisher=RPM|date=June 20, 1981|accessdate=10 July 2011 }}