Glaxo Babies

Put Me On The Guest List

FACTORY SEALED LP

Format: Album

Country: U.S.A.

Record Company & Release Number: Cherry Red Records: HBM3

Original release date: 1980

Bar Code: NONE

Condition of the cover: Mint

Condition of this Album: Sealed - Assumed Mint

My inventory number: 208518G

Shipping Weight: 1 pounds, 0 ounces

Notes:

This record came from a record store in Allentown, Pennsylvania called "Phantasmagoria" which went out of business in 1978. I purchased most of their unsold inventory several years later when I owned "Music Madness" - a new & used record store in Catasauqua.

Since this was part of Phantasmagoria's inventory when they closed in 1978, it cannot be any newer than a 1978 pressing. Being a sealed LP, I cannot tell specifically what pressing it is prior to 1978. In come cases, hype stickers might help to determine if it is a first pressing, but I cannot be any more specific.

Phantasmagoria used round colored stickers to indicate the price of the albums. They had a sign on the wall with the color sticker combinations for the customers to use so they knew the price of the albums. Most of the albums still have these stickers on them, and in some rare cases, the stickers are written on. Some of the records have prices on them. This is the price you would have paid for the record in 1978 if you would have bought it at Phantasmagoria. Please don't confuse these prices with their current value.

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Songs

• Avoiding the Issue
• Because of You
• This Is Your Life
• Police State
• Who Killed Bruce Lee?
• Stay Awake
• She Went to Pieces
• Burning
• Flesh
• Puppet Patrol

Credits

• Geoff Alsopp: Drums
• Dan Catsis: Guitar, Vocals
• Rob Chapman: Vocals
• Charlie Llewellin: Drums
• Tommy Nichols: Bass, Vocals
• Tony Wrafter: Saxophone

Album Review

Review by Dave Thompson, All Music Guide

A somewhat ramshackle collection of songs drawn from Glaxo Babies' original, and possibly superior incarnation -- ten songs drawn from the band's debut EP This Is Your Life, and the session for what would have been their debut album, had frontman Rob Chapman not been jettisoned midway through. And it has to be said that, when lined up alongside Nine Months to the Disco, Put Me on the Guest List is the stronger offering, song for song. The difference was, as Tony Wrafter pointed out, the band wasn't into songs any longer. Cast firmly in a mold that would now be compared to Gang of Four if they weren't so precious, the likes of "This Is Your Life," the frenetic "Police State," and "Who Killed Bruce Lee" are effortlessly danceable, twitchy, itching numbers that hang around for just the right amount of time, and then make way for the next convoluted stomp. The smoothly flowing "Avoiding the Issue," meanwhile, packs one of the most contagious choruses of the age -- "can I leave the table, mummy?," and really should have been out as a single. The absence of what was then the band's best-known number, "Christine Keeler," does somewhat defuse the album's attempts to turn the historical clock back. But still, anybody mourning the death of this most dramatic incarnation of the magical Glaxos wasn't going to allow that to stand in the way of what ranked among the most eagerly awaited albums of the year.

Biography

Glaxo Babies biography by Andy Kellman, All Music Guide

Glaxo Babies were a post-punk band based in Bristol, England. The foursome was initially vocalist Rob Chapman, guitarist/vocalist Dan Catsis (ex-Pop Group), drummer Geoff Alsopp, and bassist Tom Nichols. They released the This Is Your Life EP in 1979; by the time of the Christine Keeler single months later, a few changes to the lineup were made. Most significantly, Charles Llewelyn took over for Alsopp on drums and Tony Wrafter (another ex-Pop Group member) added saxophone. Chapman then left, and the remaining members recorded the entirety of 1980's Nine Months to the Disco, their debut LP for Heartbeat, within the span of a single day. For the following Limited Entertainment EP (also released in 1980), Glaxo Babies temporarily hooked up with the Y label. And finally, Put Me on the Guest List, yet another 1980 release, collected demos of the band's Chapman era. They apparently broke up at some point after its release; Catsis and Wrafter became part of Maximum Joy. In the mid-'80s, Chapman and Catsis re-formed Glaxo Babies with Llewelyn on drums. They were together for several years, the results eventually appearing on the compilation The Porlock Factor: Psych Drums and Other Schemes 1985-1990.

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