Plasmatics - New Hope For The Wretched

Tracklist

A1	Tight Black Pants	1:44
A2	Monkey Suit	3:19
A3	Living Dead	1:31
A4	Test Tube Babies	1:51
A5	Won't You	2:25
A6	Concrete Shoes	2:52
A7	Squirm (Live)	3:29
B1	Want You Baby	1:53
B2	Dream Lover	5:35
B3	Sometimes I	3:51
B4	Corruption	2:36
B5	Butcher Baby	3:20

Companies, etc.

• Phonographic Copyright (p) – Stiff Records
• Copyright (c) – Stiff Records
• Published By – Street Music Ltd.
• Published By – Screen Gems-EMI
• Pressed By – Sound Manufacturing – C5259

Credits

• Bass Guitar – Jean Beauvoir
• Drums, Electronic Drums [Syndrums] – Stu Deutsch
• Engineer – Trevor Hallsey*
• Lead Guitar – Richie Stotts
• Management [Plasmatics Concept & Management] – Rod Swenson
• Mastered By – Steve*
• Mixed By – Ed Stasium, Rod Swenson
• Percussion – Jimmy Miller (tracks: A2, B2)
• Photography By [Cover Photo] – Butch Star
• Photography By [Photo Assistant] – John Michaels
• Producer – Ed Stasium (tracks: A7), Jimmy Miller
• Rhythm Guitar – Wes Beech
• Vocals, Other [Chainsaw, Machine Gun], Saxophone – Wendy Orlean Williams*
• Written-By – Darin* (tracks: B2), Funuhara* (tracks: A6), Stotts* (tracks: A1, A3 to A5, B1, B3 to B5), Axeman* (tracks: A1 to B1, B3 to B5), Beech* (tracks: A2, A7)

Notes

Made in England
℗ & © 1980 Stiff Records
All tracks Street Music Ltd except "Dream Lover" Screen Gems/EMI

Note on track B2: "During the instrumental portion of 'Dream Lover' the musicians were isolated from one another so that they could not see or hear what each other were playing".

Some copies issued with hype sticker "Pay No More Than £3.99".
Track times do not appear on release.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Matrix / Runout (Side A, stamped runout): SEEZ 24-A-1 C5259
• Matrix / Runout (Side B, stamped runout): SEEZ 24-B-2 C5259
• Matrix / Runout (Side A, hand-etched runout): EVERYONES A KILLER STEVE X⋀
• Matrix / Runout (Side B, hand-etched runout): IIX AND NO FILLER... STEVE

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
USE 9	Plasmatics	New Hope For The Wretched ‎(LP, Album)	Stiff America	USE 9	US	1980
SEEZ 24	Plasmatics	New Hope For The Wretched ‎(LP, Album, Red)	Stiff Records	SEEZ 24	UK	1980
SEEZ 24	Plasmatics	New Hope For The Wretched ‎(LP, Album, Col)	Stiff Records	SEEZ 24	UK	1980
CDM RED 204	Plasmatics	New Hope For The Wretched Plus Bonus Tracks ‎(CD, RE)	Cherry Red	CDM RED 204	UK	2002
LETV224LP	Plasmatics	New Hope For The Wretched ‎(2xLP, Album, Ltd, RE, Col)	Let Them Eat Vinyl	LETV224LP	UK	2014

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