Avoid Freud | ||||
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Released | October 13, 1980 | |||
Recorded | August – September 1980 | |||
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Length | 34:56 | |||
Label | True North (Canada) Stiff America (U.S.) CBS (Netherlands) | |||
Producer | Gene Martynec Rough Trade | |||
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Allmusic | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Rolling Stone | (Not Rated) [2] |
Avoid Freud is the second album by Canadian new wave band Rough Trade, released in 1980 (True North TN-43 in Canada, Stiff America USE 14 in the U.S., CBS 84952 in The Netherlands).[3] It placed at least as high as #19 on the Canadian RPM Top Albums Chart on March 14, 1981. (Inferred from archive listing for following week.)[4] The album was certified gold in Canada (50,000 units) by the CRIA on March 1, 1981, then advanced to platinum certification (100,000 units) by June of the same year.[5]
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),[3] the latter track becoming the larger hit, reaching #25 in Canada on the National Top 50 Singles Chart on February 7, 1981[6] and #3 on the RPM CANCON Chart the following week.[7] The album's most famous single, however, is "High School Confidential" (b/w "Grade B Movie", True North TN4-159),[3] which was intensely controversial for its explicitly sexual lyrics, which include references to lesbianism. The influential Toronto radio station CHUM-FM 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."[8] It reached #1 on the RPM CANCON Chart and #12 on the National Top 50 Chart on June 20 of the same year.[9]
All tracks are written by Carole Pope and Kevan Staples
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "It's a Jungle" | 3:17 |
2. | "High School Confidential" | 3:26 |
3. | "Lie Back, Let Me Do Everything" | 3:22 |
4. | "Physical Violence" | 3:55 |
5. | "I Can't Take It" | 3:42 |
6. | "What's the Furor About the Führer?" | 3:22 |
7. | "Fashion Victim" | 4:06 |
8. | "Emotional Blackmail" | 2:42 |
9. | "Hostage" | 3:38 |
10. | "Grade B Movie" | 3:56 |