For How Much Longer Do We Tolerate Mass Murder?

For How Much Longer Do We Tolerate Mass Murder?
Studio album by The Pop Group
Released 21 March 1980
Recorded Foel Studios in Llanfair Caereinion, Powys
Genre
Length 31:57
Label Rough Trade, Y
Producer The Pop Group
The Pop Group chronology
Y
(1979)		 For How Much Longer Do We Tolerate Mass Murder?
(1980)		 We Are Time
(1980)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
Record Collector[2]

For How Much Longer Do We Tolerate Mass Murder? is the second studio album by English post-punk band The Pop Group. It was released on March 21, 1980, through the record labels Rough Trade and Y.[3]

After being commercially unavailable for several decades, the album was reissued in February 2016.[4]

Background and music

For How Much Longer Do We Tolerate Mass Murder? was recorded at Foel Studios. It featured a collaboration with proto-rap group The Last Poets. The photo on the cover is the famous photograph Two Gypsies by André Kertész.

Mark Fisher described the album's mix of "murky funk, free jazz squalls, dub diffraction, howls and shrieks" as "the sound of a society falling apart."[5]

Reception

Upon its release in 1980, For How Much Longer received mixed reviews, with publications at the center of post-punk discourse (such as the NME) dismissing its agit-prop didacticism in favor of the fevered mysticism of the group's debut album, Y.[6][7]

In recent years, however, writers have lauded the album's musical and political radicalism, with Mark Fisher writing for Fact that "the debates provoked by For How Much Longer rehearsed some of the disputes over aesthetics and politics that had exercised revolutionaries throughout the twentieth century. Was the message the most important thing, or was it formal innovation that made artworks revolutionary? The remarkable thing about For How Much Longer is that it refuses to choose.[8] In 2016, Record Collector described the album as "highly relevant" and "frighteningly prescient," stating that "the post-punk Bristolian radicals did actually succeed in synthesising something fierce, funky and fantastic from their unholy mash-up of Ornette Coleman, Funkadelic and heavyweight, Channel One-style dub.[9]

Accolades

Publication Country Accolade Year Rank
Rockerilla Italy Albums of the Year[10] 1980 11
Uncut United Kingdom The 50 Greatest Lost Albums[11] 2004 35

Track listing

All songs written and composed by The Pop Group. 

Side one
No. Title Length
1. "Forces of Oppression"   2:33
2. "Feed the Hungry"   4:15
3. "One Out of Many"   1:52
4. "Blind Faith"   4:03
5. "How Much Longer"   4:57
Side two
No. Title Length
1. "Justice"   3:06
2. "There Are No Spectators"   4:13
3. "Communicate"   4:40
4. "Rob a Bank"   2:18

Personnel

Adapted from the For How Much Longer Do We Tolerate Mass Murder? liner notes.[12]

The Pop Group
Additional musicians
Technical personnel

Charts

Chart (1980) Peak
position
UK Indie Chart[13] 1

Release history

Region Date Label Format Catalog
United Kingdom 1980 Rough Trade, Y LP ROUGH 9, Y 2
Italy Go International SER 02
Japan 1981 Japan Record RTL-1
Italy Base Record Rough 9 Y5
Japan 1994 TDK Core Co. Ltd. CD TDCN-5153
1996 TDCN-5575

References

  1. ↑ Dougan, John. "The Pop Group: For How Much Longer Do We Tolerate Mass Murder? > Review". Allmusic. Retrieved September 11, 2014.
  2. ↑ Peacock, Tim. "THE POP GROUP - FOR HOW MUCH LONGER DO WE TOLERATE MASS MURDER?". Record Collector, 2015.
  3. ↑ "For How Much Longer Do We Tolerate Mass Murder LP". thepopgroup.net. 2014. Retrieved September 11, 2014.
  4. ↑ Fisher, Mark. "The Pop Group's How Much Longer Do We Tolerate Mass Murder?." Fact. February 2016.
  5. ↑ Fisher, Mark. "The Pop Group's How Much Longer Do We Tolerate Mass Murder?." Fact. February 2016.
  6. ↑ Penman, Ian. "[the Phantoms of] TRICKNOLOGY [versus a Politics of Authenticity]". The Wire, March 1995.
  7. ↑ Fisher, Mark. "The Pop Group's How Much Longer Do We Tolerate Mass Murder?." Fact. February 2016.
  8. ↑ Fisher, Mark. "The Pop Group's How Much Longer Do We Tolerate Mass Murder?." Fact. February 2016.
  9. ↑ Peacock, Tim. "THE POP GROUP - FOR HOW MUCH LONGER DO WE TOLERATE MASS MURDER?". Record Collector, 2015.
  10. ↑ "Albums of the Year - 1980". Rockerilla. Retrieved September 11, 2014.
  11. ↑ "The 50 Greatest Lost Albums". Uncut. Retrieved September 11, 2014.
  12. ↑ For How Much Longer Do We Tolerate Mass Murder? (sleeve). The Pop Group. London, United Kingdom: Rough Trade Records. 1980.
  13. ↑ Lazell, Barry (1997). Indie Hits 1980-1989. Cherry Red Books. Retrieved September 11, 2014.

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