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Details
- Release date: 22 August 1991
- Label: Fire
- Formats: CD, 12"
- Catalogue numbers: blaze 51CD, blaze 51T
- Recorded: January 1990 (FON Studios, Sheffield) and May/June 1991 (FON Studios, Sheffield); except Death Goes to the Disco, December 1987 (FON Studios, Sheffield)
Credits
- Sleeve design: Martyn Broadhead
- Photography: Ed Sirrs
Tracklisting
12":
- Countdown (8:05)
- Death Goes to the Disco (5:44)
- Countdown (radio edit) (4:42)
CD:
- Countdown (radio edit) (4:42)
- Death Goes to the Disco (5:44)
- Countdown (8:05)
On the CD version the tracks are incorrectly listed on the case in the same order as on the 12" version, when they are in fact reversed. This has led to a common misconception that the extended eight minute version of Countdown is the radio edit.
Reviews
NME, 7th September 1991:
Pulp are infinitely superior to the rest of the 'we are weird' clan. For a start they seem genuinely bonkers, particularly singer Jarvis who looks like one of the good Lord's genetic mishaps. The last single 'My Legendary Girlfriend' was a minor classic. 'Countdown' however, can be described as nothing other than a disco record skating the thin ice between pop irony and aural torture. I like it, but then I'm a sick man.
