A New Form of Beauty explained

A New Form of Beauty
Type:compilation
Artist:Virgin Prunes
Cover:Virgin Prunes - A New Form of Beauty.jpeg
Released:1983
Recorded:July – November 8, 1981
Genre:Post-punk, gothic rock
Length:92:10
Label:Rough Trade
Producer:Virgin Prunes
Prev Title:Hérésie
Prev Year:1982
Next Title:Over the Rainbow (A Compilation of Rarities 1981–1983)
Next Year:1985

A New Form of Beauty Parts 1–4 is a 1983 compilation album by Irish post-punk band Virgin Prunes.[1] [2] It collected parts 1 through 4 of the A New Form of Beauty project, which were issued by Rough Trade Records during 1981 and 1982.[3] [4] [5] [6] [1]

History

A New Form of Beauty 1 (1981), issued as a 7" single, featured the songs "Sandpaper Lullaby" and "Sleep / Fantasy Dreams".[7] [1] It was followed by the 10" single A New Form of Beauty 2 (1981), which featured "Come to Daddy" and two other tracks.[8] [1] A New Form of Beauty 3 (1981) was a four-song 12" EP consisting of "Beast (Seven Bastard Suck)" on one side, and three tracks on the other side, subtitled "The Slow Children".[9] [1]

The final musical installment in the series, A New Form of Beauty 4 (1982), was a cassette release consisting of "Din Glorious", a mixture of previous A New Form of Beauty tracks and taped sounds recorded at the A New Form of Beauty 5 exhibition at the Douglas Hyde Gallery at Trinity College Dublin on 8 November 1981.[10] [1]

The project also included two additional pieces, the unpublished book A New Form of Beauty 6 and the unreleased film A New Form of Beauty 7.[1]

In 1993, an abridged remastered version was issued by French label New Rose Records that omitted part 4 of the series.[11] This abridged version was later issued in 2004 in the United States by Mute Records.[12] That same year, The Grey Area reissued the complete version in the U.K.[13]

Personnel

Virgin Prunes

Charts

YearTitleUK Indie
[14]
1981A New Form of Beauty 144
1982A New Form of Beauty 247

Release history

RegionDateLabelFormatCatalog
Italy1981ItalianLPEX 41L2
France1993New RoseCD, LP451042
United Kingdom2004The Grey AreaCDYEO1CD
United States2004MuteCDMUTE 9264-2

Notes and References

  1. Web site: About. 20 September 2017.
  2. Web site: MUTE • Virgin Prunes • Virgin Prunes: A Short History. March 2011 . 20 September 2017.
  3. Book: Strong, Martin Charles . The Great Indie Discography . . 2003 . 9781841953359 . 21 September 2014.
  4. Web site: Virgin Prunes / Discography . virginprunes.com . 2011 . 21 September 2014.
  5. Web site: Virgin Prunes – A New Form Of Beauty. 27 October 2011. 20 September 2017.
  6. Web site: Virgin Prunes – A New Form Of Beauty Parts 1–4. Discogs. 20 September 2017.
  7. Web site: Virgin Prunes – A New Form Of Beauty 1. Discogs. 20 September 2017.
  8. Web site: Virgin Prunes – A New Form Of Beauty 2. Discogs. 20 September 2017.
  9. Web site: Virgin Prunes – A New Form Of Beauty 3. Discogs. 20 September 2017.
  10. Web site: Virgin Prunes – A New Form Of Beauty 4. Discogs. 20 September 2017.
  11. Web site: Virgin Prunes – A New Form Of Beauty. Discogs. 20 September 2017.
  12. Web site: Virgin Prunes – A New Form Of Beauty. Discogs. 20 September 2017.
  13. Web site: Virgin Prunes – A New Form Of Beauty. Discogs. 20 September 2017.
  14. Book: Lazell, Barry . Indie Hits 1980–1989 . Cherry Red Books . 1997 . 21 September 2014 . bot: unknown . https://web.archive.org/web/20080509194831/http://www.cherryred.co.uk/books/indiehits/v.htm . 9 May 2008 .