The Correct Use of Soap

Infobox Album
Name = The Correct Use of Soap
Type = album
Artist = Magazine


Released = 1980
Recorded = 1980
Genre = New wave
Length = 40:05
Label = Virgin
Producer = Martin Hannett
Reviews =
*Allmusic rating|4.5|5 [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=ADFEAEE57D1ED947AC7620EADF0C45CABF60D20AD151F48B122C495AD0B9344F884373E549E99B94B5B077B120FEB32ABB5F10D1CAEE51B0DD6737388BE4A561284F36&sql=10:a9fqxqq5ldje link]
Last album = "Secondhand Daylight"
(1979)
This album = "The Correct Use of Soap"
(1980)
Next album = "Magic, Murder and the Weather"
(1981)

"The Correct Use of Soap" is the third album by UK-based post-punk band Magazine, released by Virgin Records in 1980. It marks a return to form of sorts to the more punkier riffs and faster rhythms of "Real Life" after their more experimental album "Secondhand Daylight". As such, it contains some of Magazine's best-known and most popular songs, including the singles "A Song from Under the Floorboards" and "Sweetheart Contract" and their highly regarded cover of Sly & The Family Stone's "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)". This was their last album with original guitarist John McGeoch, who left the band after the releasing of the album and joined Siouxsie And The Banshees and continued a short more time with Visage, formed also by his bandmates Dave Formula and Barry Adamson. Magazine would go on to release one more studio album, 1981's "Magic, Murder and the Weather", but this album is generally regarded as the end of Magazine and Devoto's most productive and innovative period.

The single "A Song from Under the Floorboards" was featured on Rhino's box-set "Left of the Dial: Dispatches from the 80s Underground", and has been covered many times in concert by fellow Mancunian Morrissey and recorded by Australian band My Friend the Chocolate Cake on their ARIA Music Award-winning album "Brood" (1994).

Track listing

:"All songs by Barry Adamson/Howard Devoto/John Doyle/Dave Formula/John McGeoch, except where noted."
#"Because You're Frightened" – 3:54
#"Model Worker" – 2:51
#"I'm a Party" – 3:01
#"You Never Knew Me" – 5:23
#"Philadelphia" – 3:54
#"I Want to Burn Again" – 5:16
#"Thank You (Fallentinme Be Mice Elf Again)" (Sylvester Stewart) - 3:48
#"Sweetheart Contract" – 3:18
#"Stuck" – 4:04
#"A Song from Under the Floorboards" – 4:07

Personnel

*Howard Devoto – vocals
*John McGeoch – guitars
*Barry Adamson – bass guitar
*Dave Formula – keyboards
*John Doyle – drums
* Laura Teresa - additional backing vocals