VIRGINIA ASTLEY DISCOGRAPHY | COMPILATIONS

IF YOU CAN’T PLEASE YOURSELF
YOU CAN’T PLEASE YOUR SOUL

CATALOGUE THI57028.2 FORMAT LP/MC LABEL THIRSTY EAR RELEASE DATE 1997 SLEEVE DESIGN CURRENT VALUE £10 – £15 TRACK LISTING WRITERS PRODUCER WAITING TO FALL Virginia Astley Virginia Astley NOTES TRIVIA

This was a reissue on a US label

This compilation was a showcase for various Some Bizarre artists including The The, Coil, Cabaret Voltaire and Test Dept.

The sleeve notes describe this compilation as a “retrospective album” referring to the fact that a lot of the material was recorded in 1983/84. In fact, the album had originally been titled Waste Disposal Eyes and given the catalogue number BIZL7. Although test pressings were cut, the album was scrapped until 1985 when it was reissued under the new title of If You Can’t Please Your Self You Can’t Please Your Soul.

Waiting To Fall had been inspired by a television documentary about a prisioner in the USA who was on death row.