The Shop Assistants (album)

Shop Assistants aka Will Anything Happen
Studio album by Shop Assistants
Released	1986
Genre	Indie pop
Label	Blue Guitar

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]

Shop Assistants (aka Will Anything Happen) is the only album released by Shop Assistants. It was released in November 1986 on the Chrysalis Records 'indie' offshoot Blue Guitar. The album was critically acclaimed by Sounds staff that made 'Shop Assistants' in the list of top 50 best albums of 1986 ^[2]

The album was reissued in 1997 by Overground Records, and again on CD by Cherry Red in 2008 with two bonus tracks.^[3] Both of these had originally appeared on the B-side of the single "I Don't Want To Be Friends With You". The album was described by Allmusic's Jason Ankeny as "an essential artefact of its times".^[4]

Track listing

1. I Don't Want to Be Friends With You - 2:18
2. All Day Long - 1:50
3. Before I Wake - 2:42
4. Caledonian Road - 2:13
5. All That Ever Mattered - 2:15
6. Fixed Grin - 2:51
7. Somewhere in China - 3:13
8. Train From Kansas City - 3:42
9. Home Again - 1:41
10. Seems to Be - 2:22
11. After Dark - 2:36
12. All of the Time - 2:23
13. What a Way to Die - 1:59
14. Nature Lover - 1:55
15. Looking Back (CD reissue only) - 1:45
16. All Day Long (slow version) (CD reissue only) - 2:27

Personnel

• Alex Taylor - vocals
• David Keegan - guitar
• Sarah Kneale - bass
• Laura MacPhail - drums

References

1. Allmusic review
2. Andrzej Buda (2006) Historia rocka, popu i hip-hopu wedlu krytykow, Wydawnictwo Niezalezne: 68, 2006, ISBN 978-83-915272-8-3
3. "Shop Assistants - Will Anything Happen", Cherry Red
4. Ankeny, Jason: "Shop Assistants", in Bogdanov, Vladimir, Woodstra, Chris, Erlewine, Stephen Thomas (2002) All Music Guide to Rock, Backbeat Books, ISBN 978-0-87930-653-3

External links

• Sheridan, David "Shop Assistants", Trouser Press