Buy (album)

Infobox Album
Name = Buy
Type = Album
Artist = James Chance & The Contortions


Released = 1979
Recorded = 1978
Genre = No wave Free funk
Length =
Label = ZE
Producer = James Chance
Reviews = * All About Jazz [http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=16407 link]
* Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://wm11.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:fifixqw5ldae~T0 link]
* Piero Scaruffi Rating-10|8 [http://www.scaruffi.com/vol4/chance.html link]
Last album =
This album = "Buy" (1979)
Next album = "Off White" (1979)

"Buy" is a 1979 album by James Chance & The Contortions. "Buy" was the Contortions' debut album, originally released the indie label ZE, while at the same time the album "Off White" under the alias of James White, was also released. [Skip Jansen, "Buy" review at [http://wm11.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:fifixqw5ldae All Movie Guide] ; last accessed January 01, 2008.]

Track listing

# "Design to Kill" - 2:47
# "My Infatuation" - 2:20
# "I Don't Want to Be Happy" - 3:21
# "Anesthetic" - 3:52
# "Contort Yourself" - 4:23
# "Throw Me Away" - 2:43
# "Roving Eye" - 3:09
# "Twice Removed" - 3:03
# "Bedroom Athlete" - 4:15

Bonus tracks recorded at CBGB's, Spring, 1978
# "Throw Me Away" (Live) (3:04)
# "Twice Removed" (Live) (3:12)
# "Jailhouse Rock" (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller) (Live) (3:23)

Personnel

* James Chance - vocals, alto saxophone, keyboards
* David Hofstra - bass
* Don Christensen - drums
* Jody Harris - guitar
* Pat Place - slide guitar
* George Scott - bass on bonus tracks
* Adele Bertei - acetone organ on bonus tracks

Notes