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GIRLS AT OUR BEST!  - PLEASURE

Brand new reissue released in December 2014 

Double Album
Limited to 500 copies
Gatefold Sleeve
Transparent yellow vinyl with pink,red and blue splatter
Contains 6 bonus tracks
Unavailable on vinyl since 1981
Includes printed inner sleeves, containing lyrics and photos
All copies include a “Pleasure Bag” containing 4 postcards,2 stickers, a stencil, A reproduction A2 tour poster, 2 A3 reproduction promotional posters for the singles "Go For Gold" and "Politics/It's Fashion", a B&W promotional photo and an A4 promo sheet. 

In 1980 post punk pop indie band GIRLS AT OUR BEST came out of nowhere (Well, Leeds actually) with GETTING NOWHERE FAST and was the NME’s Single Of The Week reaching the Top 10 of the indie chart. The band, fronted by Judy Evans, released four further singles plus the album PLEASURE  which reached the UK album charts in 1981, before splitting up two years after that first record.

Girls At Our Best were one of the finest, most life-affirming of a new breed of independent bands who cropped up at the turn of the 80s – long-standing fan John Peel once referred to them as one of the few groups that made the period bearable. Formed in Leeds from the ashes of punk band SOS, the group were fronted by distinctive female vocalist Jude ‘Jo’ Evans, forming a songwriting team with guitarist James Alan and bass player Gerard Swift after they met at art college. All four of their singles for their own Record Records, Rough Trade and Happy Birthday Records are included here as bonus tracks on a 45rpm 12”– including the wonderful ‘Getting Nowhere Fast’ (later covered by The Wedding Present), its coruscating b-side ‘Warm Girls’, ‘Politics!’, ‘Go For Gold’ and ‘Fast Boyfriends’

Their influence can be seen on innumerable C86/indie bands who came afterwards
 

Tracklisting

A1     Pleasure     
A2     Too Big For Your Boots     
A3     I’m Beautiful Now     
A4     Waterbed Babies     
A5     Fun-City Teenagers     
A6     £600,000     

B1     Heaven     
B2     China Blue     
B3     Fast Boyfriends     
B4     She Flipped     
B5     Goodbye To That Jazz

C1    Getting Nowhere Fast
C2    Warm Girls
C3    Politics
C4    It’s Fashion

D1    Go For Gold
D2    I’m Beautiful Now
D3    Fast Boyfriends
D4    This Train