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Going Through the Motions is a slight reconfiguration of Amateur Wankers, released 14 years earlier by the missed Acute label. Like the first compilation, this contains the flippant art-punk band's two sessions for John Peel's BBC program, transmitted in August 1978 and January 1979. One song from each set -- the droning, skronking title track and "Things in General," a more conventional rama-lama racket -- was selected for release on 7" in 1980. Most extraordinary, however, is "Bristol Road Leads to Dachau," a ferocious and tightly coiled ten-minute number regarding the 1974 pub bombings in the band's native Birmingham. Had it been pressed immediately after its broadcast, it could have become the Prefects' "Little Johnny Jewel."
Tracklist
1 Going Through The Motions
2 Escort Girls
3 Bristol Road Leads To Dachau
4 Faults
5 625 Lines (Live At The Electic Circus)
6 Barbarella's
7 Things In General
8 Agony Column
9 Total Luck
10 She Cracked (Live At The Electric Circus)
11 White Riot Tour (Live)