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Homosapien

Pete Shelley17 songs • 1 hour, 15 minutes

Homosapien is the second solo album by British musician Pete Shelley, released in 1981 by Arista Records in the U.S. and Genetic/Island Records in the UK. The album follows his experimental instrumental album Sky Yen and his work with the group Buzzcocks, who initially disbanded in 1981. Homosapien saw a marked departure from the punk stylings of Buzzcocks' records, being heavily influenced by the programmed synthesizer sounds and drum machines of synthpop, with the addition of Shelley on acoustic guitar. The title track was released as a UK single and was banned by the BBC due to "explicit" homosexual references, but was nevertheless a hit in several other countries. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosap...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)

Songs

  1. 1
    Homosapien
  2. 2
    Yesterday's Not Here
  3. 3
    I Generate A Feeling
  4. 4
    Keats' Song
  5. 5
    Qu'est-ce Que C'est Que Ça
  6. 6
    I Don't Know What It Is
  7. 7
    Guess I Must Have Been In Love With Myself
  8. 8
    Pusher Man
  9. 9
    Just One Of Those Affairs
  10. 10
    It's Hard Enough Knowing
  11. 11
    In Love With Somebody Else
  12. 12
    Witness The Change
  13. 13
  14. 14
    Love In Vain
  15. 15
    Homosapien (Elongated Dancepartydubmix)
  16. 16
    Witness the Change/I Don't Know What Love Is (Dub)
  17. 17
    Homosapien (Joe Goddard cover)

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