''Avoid Freud'' is the second album by

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new wave band

Rough Trade Rough Trade may refer to: *Rough Trade (shops), London record stores *Rough Trade Records, a record label from the stores *Rough Trade Books, a publishing house from the label *Rough Trade (band), a Canadian new wave rock band * "Rough Trade" (''Am ...

, released in 1980 (True North TN-43 in Canada, Stiff America USE 14 in the U.S., CBS 84952 in The Netherlands).Rough Trade Discography
Laventure.net (1981-11-06). Retrieved on 2010-11-11. It placed at least as high as #19 on the Canadian ''

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'' Top Albums Chart on March 14, 1981. ''(Inferred from archive listing for following week.)'' The album was certified gold in Canada (50,000 units) by the

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on March 1, 1981, then advanced to platinum certification (100,000 units) by June of the same year. 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 and #3 on the ''

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Chart the following week. 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

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ism. The influential Toronto radio station

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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." It reached #1 on the ''RPM'' CANCON Chart and #12 on the National Top 50 Chart on June 20 of the same year.

Track listing

Personnel

Carole Pope Carole Ann Pope (born 6 August 1950) is a British-born Canadian rock singer-songwriter, whose provocative blend of hard-edged New wave music, new wave rock with explicit homoerotic and BDSM-themed lyrics made her one of the first openly lesbian ...

- lead vocals *

Kevan Staples Rough Trade (1968–1988) was a Canadians, Canadian Rock music, rock band centred on singer Carole Pope and multi-instrumentalist Kevan Staples. The band was noted for their provocative lyrics and stage antics; singer Pope often performed in bond ...

- vocals, guitar, piano, synthesiser * David McMorrow - vocals, piano, Rhodes, synthesisers * Terry Wilkins - vocals, Fender fretless bass * Bucky Berger - vocals, drums *

Gene Martynec Eugene "Gene" Martynec (born March 28 1947) is a Canadian musician, composer, and record producer. Martynec has worked across multiple musical disciplines as a guitarist, synthesist, pianist, and bassist. Career Martynec first became known as ...

- producer * Gary Gray - engineer * David Taylor - assistant engineer *

George Marino George Marino (April 15, 1947June 4, 2012) was an American mastering engineer known for working on albums by rock bands starting in the late 1960s. Biography Marino was born on April 15, 1947, in the New York City borough The Bronx. He attended ...

- mastering * Peter J. Moore - remastering, restoration *

Vicki Wickham Vicki Heather Wickham (born 1939) is an English talent manager, entertainment producer, and songwriter. Career Wickham was an assistant producer of the 1960s British television show ''Ready Steady Go!'', and was fashion consultant for the shor ...

- direction

References

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{{Authority control 1980 debut albums Rough Trade (band) albums Stiff Records albums True North Records albums