Product (Brand X album)

Product
Studio album by Brand X
Released	September 14, 1979
Recorded	Startling Studios, Ascot, UK, April 1979
Genre	Jazz fusion
Length	46:40
Label	Charisma Records (UK) Passport Records (USA)
Producer	Brand X, Colin Green, Neil Kernon
Brand X chronology
Masques (1978) Product (1979) Do They Hurt? (1980)

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Product is an album by British jazz fusion group Brand X, originally released in 1979.

Track listing

Side one

1. "Don't Make Waves" (Goodsall) – 5:28
2. "Dance of the Illegal Aliens" (Jones) – 7:50
3. "Soho" (Goodsall, Collins) – 3:38
4. "...And So to F..." (Collins) – 6:29

Side two

1. "Algon (Where an Ordinary Cup of Drinking Chocolate Costs £8,000,000,000)" (Lumley) – 6:10
2. "Rhesus Perplexus" (Giblin) – 3:59
3. "Wal to Wal / Not Good Enough - See Me!" – 10:44
   1. "Wal to Wal" (Jones, Giblin)
   2. "Not Good Enough - See Me!" (Jones, Robinson)
4. "April" (Giblin) – 2:36

CD

1. "Don't Make Waves" (Goodsall) – 5:31
2. "Dance of the Illegal Aliens" (Jones) – 7:49
3. "Soho" (Goodsall, Collins) – 3:40
4. "Not Good Enough-See Me!" (Jones, Robinson) – 7:29
5. "Algon (Where an Ordinary Cup of Drinking Chocolate Costs £8,000,000,000)" (Lumley) – 6:08
6. "Rhesus Perplexus" (Giblin) – 4:00
7. "Wal to Wal" (Jones, Giblin) – 3:14
8. "...And So to F..." (Collins) – 6:28
9. "April" (Giblin) – 2:08

Personnel

except on "Dance of the Illegal Aliens"; "Wal to Wal"; "Not Good Enough - See Me!"

• Keyboards, Sounds [Gunfire, Chainsaw] – Robin Lumley
• Guitar – John Goodsall
• Bass – John Giblin
• Drums, Percussion, Vocals – Phil Collins

on "Dance of the Illegal Aliens"; "Not Good Enough - See Me!"

• Keyboards, Sounds [Gunfire], Vocals – Peter Robinson
• Guitar, Vocals – John Goodsall
• Bass – Percy Jones
• Drums – Mike Clark
• Percussion – Morris Pert

on "Wal to Wal"

• Bass – John Giblin
• Bass – Percy Jones
• Drums, Drum Machine – Phil Collins

Notes

• The song "Wal to Wal" is the first recorded song on which Phil Collins used a Roland drum machine. (The first recorded Genesis song on which he used a drum machine is Duchess.)
• Both "Don't Make Waves" and "Soho" were released as singles.
• The non-album songs "Pool Room Blues" and "Noddy Goes To Sweden" were outtakes from the "Product" sessions and used as B-sides to one of the singles. "Noddy Goes To Sweden" was also used on the 1980 album release of "Do They Hurt?"
• Various releases of the album switch the track list with "...And So to F..." and "Not Good Enough - See Me!"

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