''Tragic Figures'' is the debut studio album by American

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band

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, released in 1982 by Independent Project. The reissue version was augmented with the 1982 single "Film Noir" and the 1984 EP ''

Tragic Figure ''Tragic Figure'' is an EP by the American post-punk band Savage Republic, released in 1984 by Independent Project Records. It was later appended to reissues of the band's debut album '' Tragic Figures''. Track listing Personnel Adapted from ...

'', among other bonus tracks. The sleeve design, by

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, features a photograph of the revolutionary government executing

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on August 24, 1979. The photographer,

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, won a Pulitzer Prize anonymously but was able to reveal himself in 2006.

Track listing

Personnel

Adapted from the ''Tragic Figures'' liner notes. ;Savage Republic *Philip Drucker (as Jackson Del Rey) –

guitar The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with Fretless guitar, some exceptions) and typically has six or Twelve-string guitar, twelve strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming ...

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a percussion mallet, beater including attached or enclosed beaters or Rattle (percussion beater), rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or ...

vocals Singing is the art of creating music with the voice. It is the oldest form of musical expression, and the human voice can be considered the first musical instrument. The definition of singing varies across sources. Some sources define sing ...

*Mark Erskine –

drums The drum is a member of the percussion instrument, percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophones, membranophone. Drums consist of at least one Acoustic membrane, membrane, c ...

, vocals *Bruce Licher – vocals, guitar,

bass guitar The bass guitar (), also known as the electric bass guitar, electric bass, or simply the bass, is the lowest-pitched member of the guitar family. It is similar in appearance and construction to an Electric guitar, electric but with a longer nec ...

, percussion *Jeff Long – bass guitar, guitar, percussion, vocals ;Production and additional personnel *John Golden – mastering * Ethan James –

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Release history

In other media

The song ''Real Men'' is used in

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when Catherine Martin captures

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's pet dog and threatens to kill it before

Clarice Starling Clarice M. Starling is a fictional character and protagonist of the novels '' The Silence of the Lambs'' (1988) and ''Hannibal'' (1999) by Thomas Harris. In the 1991 film adaptation of ''The Silence of the Lambs'', she was played by Jodie Foster ...

arrives.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Tragic Figures 1982 debut albums Savage Republic albums