A1 My Hang Up Is You 4:02
A2 Having You Around 4:30
A3 Didn't I Do It To You 3:15
A4 All Of A Sudden 3:23
A5 It's A New Day 3:04
B1 I'm Your Pimp 4:03
B2 I Turn My Back On Love 2:45
B3 Trespassing 4:03
B4 I'm Falling Out Of Love 2:46
Widely available for the first time in forty-five years, featuring ‘It’s A New
Day’, one of the most sample breaks in history. Official Mr Bongo reissue.
Record collectors, producers and crate diggers like a good creation myth, and
Skull Snaps’ self-titled ‘debut’ had it all. A mysterious funk trio, who
recorded one album under a curious name, housed it in a sleeve that looked more
like a proto-metal album, and released it through a label (GSF Records) that
folded shortly afterwards? Everything pointed towards the Skull Snaps album as
a single totemic object, packaged in a way that predicted its own disinterment
almost twenty-five years later.
For those who sampled it, myth maintenance was advantageous, both for their
reputations and for their consciences. Likewise, an unsanctioned 1995 reissue
on Charley Records removed the credits from the inner sleeve to further sever
the record from its context - or perhaps because the label couldn’t quite face
using the names of artists they had no intention of paying. Either way, owning
the record was a right of passage, as Amir Abdullah once wrote: “If you don't
have Skull Snaps in your collection, your collection is weak."
Featuring sleeve notes by Anton Spice. Licensed from Sam Culley.
A1 My Hang Up Is You 4:02
A2 Having You Around 4:30
A3 Didn't I Do It To You 3:15
A4 All Of A Sudden 3:23
A5 It's A New Day 3:04
B1 I'm Your Pimp 4:03
B2 I Turn My Back On Love 2:45
B3 Trespassing 4:03
B4 I'm Falling Out Of Love 2:46