Sort Of

Sort Of
Studio album by Slapp Happy
Released	1972
Recorded	May–June 1972, Wümme, Germany
Genre	Avant-rock
Length	41:42
Label	Polydor
Producer	Uwe Nettelbeck
Slapp Happy chronology
– Sort Of (1972) Slapp Happy (1974)
Singles from Sort Of
"Just a Conversation" b/w "Jumpin' Jonah" Released: 1972, Polydor Records

Professional ratings
Review scores
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AllMusic	[1]

Sort Of is the debut album of the avant-rock band Slapp Happy. It was recorded in Wümme, West Germany in May and June 1972.

Track listing

All titles written by Peter Blegvad and Anthony Moore.

Side 1
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Just a Conversation"	4:02
2.	"Paradise Express"	2:40
3.	"I Got Evil"	2:30
4.	"Little Girl's World"	3:25
5.	"Tutankhamun"	2:17
6.	"Mono Plane"	6:50

Side 2
No.	Title	Length
7.	"Blue Flower"	5:10
8.	"I'm All Alone"	2:30
9.	"Who's Gonna Help Me Now?"	2:25
10.	"Small Hands of Stone"	4:38
11.	"Sort Of"	2:15
12.	"Heading for Kyoto"	3:00

CD re-issue bonus tracks
Track listing
No.	Title	Length
13.	"Jumping Jonah"	3:03

Personnel

• Peter Blegvad – guitar, saxophone, vocals
• Dagmar Krause (credited as "Daggi") – vocals, tambourine, piano, woodblock
• Anthony Moore – guitar, keyboards, vocals
• Gunther Wüsthoff – saxophone on "Paradise Express" and "I'm All Alone"
• Werner "Zappi" Diermaier – drums
• Jean-Hervé Péron – bass guitar
• Gunther, Zappi, and Jean recorded through courtesy of Faust
• Engineered by Kurt Graupner
• Album design and cover by David Larcher

CD releases

Sort Of was released on CD by Blueprint Records in 1995 with an extra track (from the B-side of their single "Just a Conversation"):

• "Jumpin' Jonah'" (Moore/Blegvad) – the CD was mastered from a vinyl copy as the master tapes had been lost

The same master was also issued in Japan with an additional 3" CD single:

• "Alcohol" (Blegvad)

References

1. Unterberger, Richie. "Sort of...Slapp Happy". AllMusic. Retrieved 2011-06-22.

External links

• Peter Blegvad Discography
• Sort Of. The Faust Pages