Raw Melody Men was released in 1991 and is the first official live album

Live album

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 release by British

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 rock

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 band New Model Army

New Model Army (band)

New Model Army are an English rock band, who were formed in Bradford, West Yorkshire in 1980. They have been variously classified by Allmusic as post-punk and alternative rock.-Overview:...

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The album was recorded during the 1990 Impurity tour at the Brixton Academy

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, The Town & Country Club

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 in London

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, the Berlin

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 Eissporthalle and the Hamburg

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 Sportshalle. The album was mixed

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 at the Sawmills Studio in Cornwall

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On the album the track "A Liberal Education" has been abbreviated on "Lib Ed".

The title of the album, Raw Melody Men, is an anagram

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 of "New Model Army". NMA did a short tour playing in small clubs "incognito" under this name prior to the big tour during which the live album was recorded.

Track listing

1. "Whirlwind" (Justin Sullivan
   Justin Sullivan
   Justin Sullivan is an English singer and songwriter. He is also the frontman and lyricist of the British rock band New Model Army, which he formed in 1980 together with drummer Robert Heaton and bassist Stuart Morrow in their hometown of Bradford, Yorkshire...
   
   , Robert Heaton
   Robert Heaton
   Robert Charles Heaton was the drummer in the English rock band New Model Army. With Justin Sullivan, Heaton was the core of the Bradford based band, originally alongside Stuart Morrow on bass and then later with Jason 'Moose' Harris. He wrote many of NMA's best known compositions, which are still...
   
   )
2. "The Charge" (Sullivan, Heaton)
3. "Space" (Sullivan, Heaton, Nelson)
4. "Purity" (Sullivan)
5. "White Coats" (Sullivan, Heaton, Jason Harris
   Moose Harris
   Moose Harris , is a British bass guitarist, who was known as Jason James Harris until June 2001, when he legally changed his name to reflect his former nickname and adopted professional alias of "Moose". At the age of seventeen, he was recruited by New Model Army to replace original bass player...
   
   )
6. "Vagabonds" (Sullivan)
7. "Get Me Out" (Sullivan, Heaton)
8. "Lib Ed" (Sullivan, Stuart Morrow)
9. "Better Than Them" (Sullivan)
10. "Innocence" (Sullivan, Heaton)
11. "Love Songs" (Sullivan, Heaton)
12. "Lurhstaap" (Sullivan, Heaton)
13. "Archway Towers" (Sullivan, Heaton)
14. "Smalltown England" (Sullivan, Morrow)
15. "Green and Grey" (Sullivan, Heaton)
16. "I Love the World" (Sullivan, Heaton)

Production

• John Cornfield
  John Cornfield
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   – producer
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  , mixed by
  Audio mixing (recorded music)
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• New Model Army
  New Model Army (band)
  New Model Army are an English rock band, who were formed in Bradford, West Yorkshire in 1980. They have been variously classified by Allmusic as post-punk and alternative rock.-Overview:...
  
   – producer, mixed by

Musician

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• Justin Sullivan
  Justin Sullivan
  Justin Sullivan is an English singer and songwriter. He is also the frontman and lyricist of the British rock band New Model Army, which he formed in 1980 together with drummer Robert Heaton and bassist Stuart Morrow in their hometown of Bradford, Yorkshire...
  
   – vocals, guitar
  Guitar
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• Robert Heaton
  Robert Heaton
  Robert Charles Heaton was the drummer in the English rock band New Model Army. With Justin Sullivan, Heaton was the core of the Bradford based band, originally alongside Stuart Morrow on bass and then later with Jason 'Moose' Harris. He wrote many of NMA's best known compositions, which are still...
  
   – drums
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  , vocals
• Nelson – bass
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  , keyboards
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  , vocals
• Ed Alleyne-Johnson – violin
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  , keyboards, mandolin
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• Adrian Portas – guitar