Night People (Classix Nouveaux album)

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{{Infobox album

| name = Night People

| type = studio

| artist = Classix Nouveaux

| cover = Night People album cover.jpeg

| alt =

| released = {{Start date|1981}}

| recorded =

| venue =

| studio = Regents Park Studios, London

| genre = New wave

| length =

| label = Liberty

| producer = Sal Solo, Mik Sweeney

| prev_title =

| prev_year =

| next_title = La Verité

| next_year = 1982

}}

{{music ratings

| rev1 = Trouser Press

| rev1score = mixed{{cite web |url=http://www.trouserpress.com/entry.php?a=classix_nouveaux |title=TrouserPress.com :: Classix Nouveaux |last=Robbins |first=Ira |website=TrouserPress.com |accessdate=May 16, 2016}}

}}

Night People is the debut studio album by English new wave band Classix Nouveaux, released in 1981 by record label Liberty. It reached number 66 in the UK Albums Chart.{{cite web |url=http://www.officialcharts.com/artist/18850/classix-nouveaux/ |title=Classix Nouveaux | Full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company |website=Official Charts |accessdate=May 16, 2016}} It peaked at number 85 in Australia.{{cite book|last=Kent|first=David|author-link=David Kent (historian)|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|edition=illustrated|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=St Ives, N.S.W.|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6|page=65}}

Track listing

{{Track listing

| title1 = Foreward

| note1 = instrumental

| writer1 = Sal Solo, Mik Sweeney

| length1 = 3:25

| title2 = Guilty

| writer2 = Solo

| length2 = 4:42

| title3 = Run Away

| writer3 = Solo

| length3 = 2:42

| title4 = No Sympathy No Violins

| writer4 = Solo, Sweeney

| length4 = 4:07

| title5 = Inside Outside

| writer5 = Solo, Sweeney

| length5 = 4:21

| title6 = 623 Degrees

| note6 = instrumental

| writer6 = Classix Nouveaux

| length6 = 2:30

| title7 = Every Home Should Have One

| writer7 = Solo, Sweeney

| length7 = 3:55

| title8 = Tokyo

| writer8 = Solo, Sweeney

| length8 = 2:39

| title9 = Or a Movie

| writer9 = Solo

| length9 = 4:32

| title10 = Soldier

| writer10 = Solo, Sweeney

| length10 = 3:46

| title11 = The Protector of Night

| writer11 = Solo

| length11 = 5:23

}}

{{Track listing

| headline = Bonus tracks on 2003 CD release

| title12 = Robot's Dance

| writer12 = Solo

| length12 = 3:56

| title13 = Nasty Little Green Men

| writer13 = Solo

| length13 = 3:16

| title14 = Test Tube Babies

| writer14 = Solo

| length14 = 2:47

| title15 = Night People

| writer15 = Solo

| length15 = 3:54

| title16 = Old World for Sale

| writer16 = Solo

| length16 = 2:37

| title17 = 627

| writer17 = Solo

| length17 = 2:31

| title18 = We Don't Bite

| writer18 = Solo

| length18 = 3:24

}}

{{Track listing

| headline = USA vinyl release (1981)

| title19 = Foreward

| writer19 = Solo, Sweeney

| length19 = 3:32

| title20 = Guilty

| writer20 = Solo

| length20 = 3:31

| title21 = Nasty Little Green Men

| writer21 = Solo

| length21 = 3:15

| title22 = No Sympathy

| writer22 = Solo, Sweeney

| length22 = 4:06

| title23 = Inside Outside

| writer23 = Solo, Sweeney

| length23 = 4:19

| title24 = 623

| writer24 = Classix Nouveaux

| length24 = 2:27

| title25 = Robots Dance

| writer25 = Solo

| length25 = 3:55

| title26 = Every Home

| writer26 = Solo, Sweeney

| length26 = 3:15

| title27 = Tokyo

| writer27 = Solo, Sweeney

| length27 = 2:37

| title28 = Run Away

| writer28 = Solo

| length28 = 2:39

| title29 = The Protector of Night

| writer29 = Solo

| length29 = 5:22

}}

Personnel

  • Sal Solo - vocals keyboards, synthesizer, guitar
  • Mik Sweeney - bass guitar, keyboards, synthesizer, backing vocals
  • Gary Steadman - guitar, guitar synthesizer
  • B.P. Hurding - drums, electronic percussion, saxophone, backing vocals

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