Attitude (Rip Rig + Panic album)

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|rev2 = PopMatters

|rev2Score = 6/10{{cite magazine |first=Charles |last=Pitter |url=http://www.popmatters.com/review/172816-rip-rig-panic-god-i-am-cold-attitude/ |title=Rip Rig + Panic: God, I Am Cold, Attitude |magazine=PopMatters |date=28 June 2013 |access-date=2 June 2016}}

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In Melody Maker, Lynden Barker described the album as "marvellous", saying that "(t)hough not as immediately appealing as God ... it possesses a multi-layered makeup that becomes more and more exciting on each successive spin".{{cite book|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/New-Musical-Express/History-of-Rock/History-of-Rock-1983.pdf |title=Rip Rig + Panic Attitude |last=Barber |first=Lynden |work=Melody Maker |date=9 April 1983 |series=History of Rock 1983 |page=62 |access-date=28 October 2020}} Douglas Baptie of The Digital Fix wondered "Why wasn't it more popular?" and said that the album "somehow combines the best qualities of the previous two".{{cite web|url=https://www.thedigitalfix.com/music/review/rip-rig-panic-god-i-am-cold-attitude/ |title=Rip Rig + Panic – God / I Am Cold / Attitude |last=Baptie |first=Douglas |website=The Digital Fix |date=1 July 2013 |access-date=28 October 2020}} The List's Neil Cooper called Attitude "the most honed, conventionally focused and 'produced'" of Rip Rig + Panic's three.{{cite web|url=https://www.list.co.uk/article/52813-rip-rig-and-panic-god-i-am-cold-attitude/ |title=Rip Rig and Panic – God/I Am Cold/Attitude |last=Cooper |first=Neil |work=The List |date=23 July 2013 |access-date=28 October 2020}}

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| headline = Side one

| all_writing = Sean Oliver, Gareth Sager and Mark Springer

| title1 = Keep the Sharks From Your Heart

| length1 = 3:49

| title2 = Sunken Love

| length2 = 2:55

| title3 = Rip Open, But Oh So Long Thy Wounds Take to Heal

| length3 = 3:09

| title4 = Do the Tightrope

| length4 = 3:19

| title5 = Intimacy, Just Gently Shimmer

| length5 = 3:17

| title6 = How That Spark Sets Me Aglow

| length6 = 3:26

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| headline = Side two

| title1 = Alchemy in This Cemetry

| length1 = 3:19

| title2 = Beat the Beast

| length2 = 2:07

| title3 = The Birth Pangs of Spring

| length3 = 3:24

| title4 = Eros; What Brings Colour Up the Stem?

| length4 = 4:07

| title5 = Push Your Tiny Body as High as Your Desire Can Take You

| length5 = 1:27

| title6 = Viva X Dreams

| length6 = 7:02

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{{Tracklist

| headline = 2013 CD issue bonus tracks

| title13 = Do the Tightrope

| note13 = 12" version

| length13 = 5:53

| title14 = 1619 A Dutch Vessel Docks in the U.S.A. With 20 Humans for Sale

| length14 = 7:21

| title15 = Blip This Jig It's Shamanic

| length15 = 0:47

| title16 = Beat the Beast (Sob Sob I'm Gonna Jail This Hell Hole Itch)

| length16 = 3:40

| title17 = Leave Your Spittle in the Pot

| length17 = 4:42

| title18 = It's Always Tit for Tac You Foolish Brats

| length18 = 1:44

| title19 = Do the Tightrope

| note19 = Instrumental version

| length19 = 5:56

| title20 = You're My Kind of Climate

| note20 = Dance mix

| length20 = 6:06

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Adapted from the Attitude liner notes.{{cite AV media notes |title=Attitude |others=Rip Rig + Panic |year=1983 |type=sleeve |publisher=Virgin Records |location=London, United Kingdom}}

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;Rip Rig + Panic

• Neneh Cherry – vocals (A1, A2, A6, B1, B2, B4)
• Sean Oliver – bass guitar
• Gareth Sager – guitar (A4, A6, B1, B3), vocals (B1, B2, B6), alto saxophone (B3, B6), clarinet (A1, A2), piano (A5), horn and string arrangement (A1, A2, A4, A6, B4, B5), production, design
• Bruce Smith – drums (A1-A3, B1, B3, B4)
• Mark Springer – piano (A1-A3, A6, B1, B4-B6), vocals (A4, B4, B6), soprano saxophone (B2), harmonica (B4)

;Additional musicians

• David Defries – trumpet (A1, A4, B1, B2, B4)
• Woo Honeymoon – violin (A2, A4, A6, B1, B4)
• Giles Leaman – additional drums and percussion
• Steve Noble – drums (A4, A6, B2, B6)

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;Additional musicians (cont.)

• Andrea Oliver – vocals (A4, B6)
• Sarah Sarahandi – viola (A2, A4-A6, B1, B2, B4, B5)
• Dave "Flash" Wright – tenor saxophone (A1, A3, A4, A5, B1, B2, B4-B6)

;Production and additional personnel

• T. Charrington  – photography
• Tim Hunt – engineering
• Adam Kidron – production
• Jill Mumford – design
• Mark Stewart – engineering
• Ken Thomas – engineering
• Nick Watson – remastering

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