The Only Fun In Town, by Josef K

The Only Fun In Town

by Josef K

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1.	Fun 'n' Frenzy 02:06	info	buy track
2.	Revelation 04:17	info	buy track
3.	Crazy To Exist 02:59	info	buy track
4.	It's Kinda Funny 03:30	info	buy track
5.	The Angle 02:43	info	buy track
6.	Forever Drone 02:01	info	buy track
7.	Heart of Song 02:54	info	buy track
8.	16 Years 02:32	info	buy track
9.	Citizens 03:01	info	buy track
10.	Sorry For Laughing 03:13	info	buy track

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The Only Fun In Town is the influential debut album by iconic Scottish guitar group Josef K, originally released by Postcard Records in July 1981.

Speedily recorded in a small studio in Brussels, The Only Fun In Town was a defiantly abrasive, serrated long-player in the mould of the second Velvet Underground album, Josef K having already shelved a more conventional recording. Sharp-edged pop singles abound – It’s Kinda Funny, Sorry For Laughing, Revelation – along with rattling Haig/Ross twin guitar classics such as Fun ‘n’ Frenzy, Heart of Song, Forever Drone and The Angle.

The Only Fun In Town topped the independent charts on release and remains a canonical post-punk album.

“Josef K were The Sound of Young Scotland, together with Orange Juice, whose guitars were also radiant and brittle, whose rhythms were also scrubbed and blunt, whose vocals were also proud and serious, but who sounded like another group entirely” (Paul Morley); “Josef K was about the heroic Outsider suavely surfing across the fraught surface of their albino funk fracas. Haig sounds high on anxiety, finding an odd, giddy euphoria in doubt.” (Simon Reynolds)

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released March 5, 2024

Produced by Josef K and Marc Francois. Recorded at Little Big One Studio, Brussels, in April 1981. Cover art by Krysia Klasicki.

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