THE RISE & FALL, UK, 1982

Format: LP
Release date: 5/11/1982
Label: Stiff
Catalogue No.: SEEZ 46
Secondary Cat. No.: –
Barcode: none
Chart Position: 10
Release notes: –

 

Tracks:
Rise And Fall
Tomorrow’s (Just Another Day)
Blue Skinned Beast
Primrose Hill
Mr Speaker (Gets The Word)
Sunday Morning

Our House
Tiptoes
New Delhi
That Face
Calling Cards
Are You Coming (With Me)
Madness (Is All In The Mind)

Madness’ fourth studio album spent 22 weeks in the top 100, peaking at no. 10 twice, in November and December 1982.
Certified Gold (100,000) on 11th November 1982.


Sleeve

Glossy gatefold sleeve. The red ‘MADNESS’ is embossed.

Later versions had an ‘Our House’ sticker on the front


Inner

All original pressings had a black poly-lined inner

Insert

Stiff City Mail Order form


Labels

Variant 1

Label profile: 62mm lip, 32mm ring

Lacquer cut by Arun Chakraverty at Master Room, London W1. Pressed by CBS, Aylesbury

Runouts – any combination of A1, A2, A6 and B1, B2:

A-Side: SEEZ-46-A1  ARUN / SEEZ-46-A2  ARUN / SEEZ . 46 A6
B-Side: SEEZ-46-B1  ARUN / SEEZ-46-B2  ARUN

Variant 2

Label profile: flat, 32mm ring

Lacquer cut by Arun Chakraverty at Master Room, London W1. Pressed by MPO, France

Runouts:

A-Side: SEEZ 46 A3  ARUN  / B-Side: MPO SEEZ 46 B3  MPO


Test Pressing

MPO A3/B3 white label Test Pressing


The newspaper Woody is holding on the sleeve front is dated Sunday 19th September 1982


See also:

The Rise & Fall – Virgin V 2356 (1985)

The Rise & Fall – Virgin OVED 190 (1988)


In Print

Songbook

60-page booklet ‘KY 16965’


1982L01

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