Rough Trade – Avoid Freud

I remember the first time I heard Avoid Freud: my friend Fred Allinson had it in his car (sometime before I totalled it). It was like nothing we had ever heard before in Sault Ste. Marie and, if only we had been at all competent musicians, would have been an enormous influence on our Wayward Sons sessions.

Avoid Freud met with commercial success in Canada, reaching as high as #19 on the RPM charts and earning platinum status for sales of over 100,000, although AllMusic gives it only 3 stars out of 5.

The album spawned a couple of hit singles,"What's The Furor About The Führer?"/"Fashion Victim" (#3 CanCon) and "High School Confidential" (#1 CanCon).

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Track Listing

1. "It's a Jungle" (Carole Pope, Kevan Staples) – 3:17
2. "High School Confidential" (Carole Pope, Kevan Staples) – 3:26
3. "Lie Back, Let Me Do Everything" (Carole Pope, Kevan Staples) – 3:22
4. "Physical Violence" (Carole Pope, Kevan Staples) – 3:55
5. "I Can't Take It" (Carole Pope, Kevan Staples) – 3:42
6. "What's the Furor About the Führer?" (Carole Pope, Kevan Staples) – 3:22
7. "Fashion Victim" (Carole Pope, Kevan Staples) – 4:06
8. "Emotional Blackmail" (Carole Pope, Kevan Staples) – 2:42
9. "Hostage" (Carole Pope, Kevan Staples) – 3:38
10. "Grade B Movie" (Carole Pope, Kevan Staples) – 3:56

Personnel

• Carole Pope – Lead vocals
• Kevan Staples – Vocals, guitar, piano, synthesizer
• David McMorrow – Vocals, piano, Rhodes, synthesizers
• Terry Wilkins – Vocals, Fender fretless bass
• Bucky Berger – Vocals, drums