Archive Cardiacs
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{{Infobox album
| name = Archive Cardiacs
| type = compilation
| artist = Cardiacs
| cover = Archive Cardiacs cassette album.png
| alt =
| released = 1989
| recorded = 1977–1979
| venue =
| studio =
| genre =
| length = 43:06
| label = Alphabet Business Concern
| producer = {{plainlist|
- Miss Swift
- The Consultant
}}
| prev_title = On Land and in the Sea
| prev_year = 1989
| next_title = Songs for Ships and Irons
| next_year = 1991
}}
{{Album ratings
|title = Professional ratings
|rev1 = Encyclopedia of Popular Music
|rev1score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{cite book |last=Larkin |first=Collin |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8gkKAQAAMAAJ |title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music: Brown, Marion - Dilated Peoples |publisher=Muze |year=2006 |chapter=Cardiacs |author-link=Colin Larkin |page=182|isbn=978-0-19-531373-4 }} Note: Search "Alphabet 1983" (with quotation marks).
|rev2 = The Virgin Encyclopedia of Eighties Music
|rev2score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{cite book |last=Larkin |first=Collin |chapter=Cardiacs |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Hrs7AQAAIAAJ |title=The Virgin Encyclopedia of Eighties Music |publisher=Virgin Books |year=1997 |isbn=978-0-7535-0159-7 |location=London |author-link=Colin Larkin |orig-date=1992|page=93}} Note: Search "Alphabet 1983" (with quotation marks).
}}
Archive Cardiacs (or simply Archive) is a compilation album by English rock band Cardiacs. The album is composed of early tracks by the band recorded from 1977 to 1979.{{Cite web |last=Lawson |first=Dom |date=11 August 2014 |title=Kavus Torabi's Guide To Cardiacs |url=https://www.loudersound.com/features/kavus-torabi-s-guide-to-cardiacs |access-date=28 July 2022 |website=Prog}}{{cite book |last=Phillips |first=Lance |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7ctjc6UWCm4C |title=The Rough Guide to Rock |publisher=Rough Guides |year=2003 |isbn=978-1-85828-457-6 |editor-last=Buckley |editor-first=Peter |edition=3rd |location=London |chapter=The Cardiacs}}{{Cite web |date=2004 |title=Cardiacs - Archive Cardiacs |url=http://www.cardiacs.com/archive.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050308191100/http://www.cardiacs.com/archive.html |archive-date=8 March 2005 |access-date=24 May 2022 |website=Cardiacs}} The tracks were compiled from Cardiacs' demo albums The Obvious Identity (1980) and Toy World (1981), as well as four pieces recorded by Tim Smith and Dominic Luckman for a side project that never saw fruition.{{Cite web |last=Sgrignoli |first=Marco |date=20 July 2022 |title=Cardiacs - biografia, recensioni, streaming, discografia, foto |url=https://www.ondarock.it/rockedintorni/cardiacs.htm |access-date=23 July 2022 |website={{interlanguage link|Ondarock|it}} |language=it}}
The album was originally released on cassette in 1989 exclusively available to the Cardiacs Yousletter Family and was reissued on CD in 1995.{{cite book |last=Bell |first=Adrian |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JuzoclLVSpQC |title=Aylesbury Bolton Wolverhampton Hove: A Little Man and 101 Cardiacs Gigs |publisher=Iron Bell Publishing |year=2011 |isbn=978-0-95-687950-9 |location=Sullivan County, New York |pages=27}}
Track listing
All tracks written and arranged by Tim Smith, except where noted.
{{Track listing
| all_writing =
| extra_column = Album
| title1 = Aukamacic
| length1 = 0:45
| title2 = Icky Qualms
| length2 = 2:15
| title3 = Piffol Four Times*
| length3 = 2:49
| title4 = Scratching Crawling Scrawling
| length4 = 0:56
| title5 = As Cold as Can Be in an English Sea
| length5 = 7:12
| title6 = T.V.T.V.*
| length6 = 3:49
| title7 = My Trade Mark
| length7 = 3:40
| title8 = The Obvious Identity
| length8 = 2:02
| title9 = Piffol One Time*
| length9 = 6:49
| title10 = A Game for Bertie's Party
| length10 = 5:26
| writer10 = {{hlist|Mark Cawthra|Smith}}
| title11 = Piffol Three Times*
| length11 = 5:38
| title12 = Rock Around the Clock
| length12 = 1:45
| writer12 = Colvin Mayers
| total_length = 43:01
}}
Tracks marked with * are demo tracks created by Tim Smith and Dominic Luckman for a side project that never saw fruition.
Personnel
Adapted from the Archive Cardiacs liner notes.{{cite AV media notes |title=Archive Cardiacs |others=Cardiacs |year=1989 |location=UK |publisher=Alphabet Business Concern |type=liner notes |id=ALPH 000}}
- Tim Quy – bass guitar, percussion
- Jim Smith – bass guitar, vocals
- Sarah Smith – saxophones, clarinets, keyboards, recorders
- Tim Smith – guitar, drums, vocals, flutes, keyboards, percussion
- Mark Cawthra – drums, keyboards, vocals
- Michael Pugh – vocals
- Colvin Mayers – keyboards
- Dominic Luckman – drums
Technical
- Miss Swift – production
- The Consultant – production
Chart performance
References
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