Should the World Fail to Fall Apart is the debut album by the British solo artist Peter Murphy, formerly of the gothic rock band Bauhaus.[4][5] The album contains Murphy's covers of Magazine's "The Light Pours Out of Me" and Pere Ubu's "Final Solution."[6] It was released in 1986.[7]
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Released | July 1986 | |||
Recorded | 1986 | |||
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Genre | Alternative rock | |||
Length | 53:00 | |||
Label | RCA, Beggars Banquet | |||
Producer | Ivo Watts-Russell, Peter Murphy, Howard Hughes, Gerry Kitchingham | |||
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AllMusic | [1] |
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [2] |
MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide | [3] |
Many guest musicians appear on the album, including Howard Hughes and John McGeoch.[8]
Trouser Press wrote: "If Murphy could remove the melodrama from his delivery, a lot of the songs might have been quite nice. But even at low volume and languorous tempo, he can’t shake the old goth theatrics out of his voice."[9] The Spin Alternative Record Guide called the album "the least perfunctory" of Murphy's solo releases.[10]
All tracks composed by Peter Murphy and Howard Hughes (Stephen Betts); except where indicated
The Canadian version of the LP, released on Vertigo/PolyGram, has a different cover as well an alternative track listing:
In addition to reordering, the track "Canvas Beauty" was dropped in favor of "Tale of The Tongue", which had been released in the UK as a non-album single.
In July 2011, Cherry Red Records released a 25th anniversary deluxe edition of the album with a bonus disc of 13 B-sides and remixes: