{"product_id":"the-second-album-and-the-first-rehearsal-tapes","title":"The Second Album and The First Rehearsal Tapes","description":"\u003cp\u003eback in stock the 1998 re-release of the seminal second suicide album from 1980. cd1 has the original album plus two extra tracks - the classic 'dream baby dream' \/ 'radiation' single. the ric ocasek-produced second album is less confrontational and more contemporary than the duo's terrifying debut. vega's rockabilly snarl and rev's burbling electronics remain, but ocasek's involvement purges a pop sensibility only hinted at on 'suicide'. some of the tracks are downright pretty ('shadazz,' 'diamonds, fur coat, champagne'). perhaps it's not as renegade as 'suicide', but it's an arguably better, more realized work, and just as essential. the album remains one of the key electronic albums to be released in the 1980s - alongside such classics as 'penthouse and pavement', 'red mecca' and 'travelogue'. cd2 has 45 minutes of unreleased rehearsals recorded in suicide's formative years at the musuem for living artists in 1975.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blast First","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50457911034187,"sku":"125321","price":7.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/99579590-75c9-4c68-8ba3-b34353f4f382_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727209017","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/products\/the-second-album-and-the-first-rehearsal-tapes","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}